Tour Scotland 4K short travel video clip of the Tay Railway Bridge over the Firth of Tay from ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Wormit in North East Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. The present bridge is the second one this site. From about 1854, there had been plans for a Tay crossing, to replace an early train ferry. The first bridge, opened in 1878, was a single track lattice design, notable for lightness and low cost. Its sudden collapse in a high wind on 28 December 1879 was one of the great engineering disasters of history. Seventy five passengers and crew died. The second bridge is a double track construction of iron and steel, opened in 1887 and still in service. The Tay Bridge carries the railway across the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife. Wormit is a village on the south shore of the Firth of Tay in north east Fife, Scotland. Its location at the southern end of the Tay Rail Bridge has led to it becoming a commuter suburb of Dundee. Wormit Railway Station, opened on 1 May 1889 and closed on 5 May 1969, it was operated on a closed branch line, The Newport Railway, which left the main line Edinburgh to Dundee) railway line immediately at the south end of the Bridge to serve Wormit and Newport. After closure, Wormit Station was later dismantled and rebuilt at the heritage Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway to the west of Edinburgh. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome
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