
	Where results make sense

Topic: Tay Rail Bridge

Related Topics

rail transport

National Rail

British Rail

high speed rail

commuter rail

Long Island Rail Road

VIA Rail

Rail transport in Ireland

third rail

History of rail transport in Ireland

rail tracks

In the News (Sat 25 May 13)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Forth Rail Bridge
		The Forth Rail Bridge is a railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, to the east of the Forth Road Bridge, and west of Edinburgh.
		The earlier bridge project got as far as the laying of the foundation stone, but was doomed to failure due to the collapse of the Tay Rail Bridge, designed by Sir Thomas Bouch who had also submitted the Forth Rail Bridge design.
		The bridge was opened by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who drove home that last rivet which was gold plated and suitably inscribed.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fo/Forth_Bridge.html (204 words)

	Tay Road Bridge
		The Tay Road Bridge is a road bridge in Scotland over the River Tay from Newport-on-Tay in the north east of Fife, to the City of Dundee.
		It lies to the east of the Tay Rail Bridge.
		Designed by William Fairhurst, it is a concrete multispanned toll bridge, 1.4 miles (2250 m) long, and one of the longest road bridges in Europe.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Tay_Road_Bridge.html (99 words)

	Tay Rail Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first engine to cross the bridge was on September 22, 1877 and upon its completion in early 1878, the Tay bridge was among the longest in the world.
		The bridge proposal was formally incorporated in July 1881 and the foundation stone laid on July 6, 1883.
		Rothery, Upon the Circumstances Attending the Fall of a Portion of the Tay Bridge on the 28th December 1879 from The Railways Archive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tay_Rail_Bridge (1365 words)

	Tom Martin's Tay bridge disaster web page
		The Tay bridge was nearly two miles long, consisting of 85 spans and at the time was the longest bridge in the world.
		As the present bridge is now over one hundred years old, inspection of the bridge is carried out on a regular basis by Hi-Rope to check its structural integrity.
		The findings of the study suggest that the bridge was significantly underdesigned for the wind loading and,even if the wind bracing had been properly constructed, had little chance of surviving force 10 gales experienced in the Firth of Tay area.
	www.tts1.demon.co.uk /taytest.html (920 words)

	Tour Newport-On-Tay In North Fife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Newport - on - Tay in North Fife was previously named New Dundee and was regarded as a fashionable place to reside by the wealthy Jute Barons of Dundee in the 19th century.
		Running alongside the modern Rail Bridge are the stumps of the piers of the first bridge which collapsed in December 1879.
		Many of the victims of the Tay Rail Bridge Disaster are buried in the cemetery at the small village of Kilmany.
	www.scotland247.co.uk /newport-on-tay2.htm (557 words)

	The Tay Bridge Disaster - The Tay Bridge Disaster (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Most of his bridges were lattice girders supported on slender cast iron columns braced with wrought iron struts and ties, such as the Belah Viaduct in the photograph to the right.
		The spans carried a single rail track; 72 of these were supported on spanning girders below the level of the track; the remaining 13 navigation spans were spanning girders above the level of the track (i.e.
		Thomas J. (1970) The Tay Bridge Disaster David and Charles, Newton Abbot.
	taybridgedisaster.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 (868 words)

	The Tay Bridge Disaster
		The collapse of the bridge, only opened 19 months and passed safe by the Board of Trade, sent shock waves through the Victorian engineering profession and was reported widely in the newspapers of the time.
		The Tay bridge was two miles long, had 85 spans and was the longest bridge in the world.
		The Court of Inquiry which followed the disaster found, "The fall of the bridge was occasioned by the insufficiency of the cross bracing and its fastenings to sustain the force of the gale." In other words the bridge was not designed to withstand the strong winds and weight of the train.
	www.technologystudent.com /struct1/taybrd1.htm (322 words)

	The Forth Bridge Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		In the aftermath of the Tay Bridge disaster the bridge was a testament to robust and conservative over-engineering.
		The whole bridge is balanced by 1000 ton counterweights on the outside of the outer cantilever structures.
		The bridge can be viewed to really good effect from both North Queensferryand Queensferry: and the views from one of the many trains crossing it is equally worthwhile, especially of North Queensferry and Queensferry and of the Forth Road Bridge only a short distance to the west.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /queensferry/forthrailbridge (647 words)

	Tay Bridges, Dundee
		The famous iron bridge over the Tay was built between 1872 and 1878 by Thomas Bouch and it carried the railroad line from Dundee to Edinburgh.
		With a span of 2mi/3km it was then the longest bridge in the world.
		It took nine years for the present Tay Rail Bridge to be constructed.
	www.planetware.com /dundee/tay-bridges-gb-tays-tay.htm (118 words)

	The Tay Bridges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Tay Road Bridge viewed from the Fife side of the estuary.
		Building the bridge across the Tay was a major engineering achievement and lives were lost in the process.
		This is the rebuilt bridge as the original collapsed in the well documented Tay Bridge disaster at the end of the 19th century.
	www.tayestuary.co.uk /taybridgeinfo.htm (104 words)

	Tay Rail Bridge (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Its more common name - Tay Rail Bridge - is erroneous, and has arisen in the years since the construction of the Tay Road Bridge.
		The bridge was officially opened by Queen Victoria on June 1 of that year.
		A new railway bridge, with two sets of tracks, was designed by William Henry Barlow and built by William Arrol, 60 feet (18 m) upstream of, and parallel to, the original bridge.
	tay-rail-bridge.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (724 words)

	screenonline: Railway Ride over the Tay Bridge (1897)
		The Tay Bridge, running between Wormit in Fife and Dundee, became notorious when it tragically collapsed in 1879, killing the 75 train passengers travelling across it.
		In 1887 a second bridge was built, and this film, shot twenty years after the disaster, departs from Wormit station and transports the viewer from Fife to Dundee along the bridge on an atmospheric 'phantom ride'.
		The precise straightness of the bridge inadvertently caused simple cuts to become curious optical tricks, particularly the point when men suddenly appear on what was an empty bridge.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/1193030/index.html (168 words)

	Newport-on-Tay Community Information
		One year later on the 28th December 1879 the Tay rail bridge collapsed, resulting in the loss of a train and all on board..
		The new bridge was opened in 1966 and this meant the end of the ferries and the railways.
		The road bridge meant a new chapter in the life of Newport, but one thing that has not changed is the friendliness of the community within Newport.
	www.webchurch.org /newport/history.htm (688 words)

	CI LOCK UP DEVICE - TAY BRIDGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Tay Rail bridge was constructed in 1887 and at 3135 metres is the longest railway bridge in the UK.
		CI were awarded the contract to supply 16 No. LUDs, which were specified by the consultant as a cost-effective method of reducing braking and traction forces on the fixed piers.
		This is part of a major bridge refurbishment programme and the LUDs will ensure that the Tay Rail bridge will be able to withstand the loads imposed by modern trains.
	www.colebrand.com /tay.htm (123 words)

	Taybridge Disaster 1879 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Although Queen Victoria was unable to open the bridge, she did cross it in the summer of 1879, shortly before she knighted Thomas Bouch.
		The tragedy of the Tay Bridge Disaster lives on in the memory of Dundonians and, 125 years after the event, it exercises a strange fascination over all who study it.
		the force of the wind on the bridge set up a domino effect whereby, one after the other, the upper courses of masonry on the bridge piers became detached from the lower courses, thus irretrievably tilting the bridge downwind.
	www.dundeecity.gov.uk /centlib/taybridge/taybridge.htm (458 words)

	Tay Bridge (North British Railway)
		A novel feature of the first bridge had been the use of caissons; Bouch had needed to use these since a footing for bridge piers could not be found in the estuary.
		The Staff (a piece of wood) for the section over the Tay Bridge is now held in the Glasgow Transport Museum and the locomotive was re-fitted and used for a number of years, being known (un-officially) as "The Diver".
		The former bridge was single track and it was the high girder section of that birdge which fell into the Tay.
	www.railscot.co.uk /Tay_Bridge_and_associated_lines/body.htm (1493 words)

	THE FORTH RAIL BRIDGE
		Tancred–Arrol, constructed the bridge, robustly designed in the aftermath of the Tay Bridge disaster by civil engineers Sir John Fowler and Benjamin Baker.
		The bridge’s construction involved the employment of 4,000 men at times, the use of 54,000 tonnes of steel and driving 6,500,000 rivets.
		The result of this was the £40m refurbishment package which began in 1998; this comprised steelwork repairs, surface coating, access improvements and an upgrade of the floodlighting.
	www.forthbridges.org.uk /railbridgemain.htm (391 words)

	Firth of Forth Cantilever Rail Bridge
		Due to the tragic collapse of the Tay Bridge, The Firth of Forth bridge, completed in 1890, was heavily over-constructed in an attempt to regain the public's confidence.
		Some structural members of the bridge are as large as 12 feet in diameter.
		The Forth Bridge is one of the highlights of British engineering history, signifying what Victorian engineers were capable of.
	bridgepros.com /projects/FirthofForth/FirthofForth.htm (202 words)

	Forth Rail Bridge, River Crossing, Forth Road Bridge, Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The bridge traverses the Firth of Forth at a pinch point with islets, between South Queensferry and North Queensferry.
		The bridge uses huge tubular sections in criss-crossing grids and is very different from other rail bridges.
		The bridge was built to carry the two tracks of the North British Railway over the Firth of Forth between South Queensferry and North Queensferry.
	www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk /forth_rail_bridge.htm (314 words)

	Tay Bridge
		The Tay Bridge is still the longest rail bridge in Great Britain - it was once the longest in the world.
		This commemorative plaque was laid by ScotRail to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Railway Bridge.
		The concrete piers of the Tay Road Bridge.
	www.mccrow.org.uk /TaysideToday/TayBridges/TayBridges.htm (419 words)

	Walk #559: Abernethy to Tayport
		The rail bridge is quite an impressive structure, and looks better from this southern bank than it did from the northern one.
		Beside the pillars of the new bridge were the seaweed-covered stumpy remains of the pillars of the old bridge, which collapsed killing 88 people one stormy night.
		A short distance after the bridge a cycle path head off to the left; initially this follows the road before joining the trackbed of an old railway line and heading down the hillside past a cemetery and near to a lighthouse.
	www.britishwalks.org /walks/2003/559.php (1721 words)

	River Tay - Badger Trips - Boat trips on the Tay
		Badger with a Grampian Television film crew during the filming of a recent documentary on the Tay Rail Bridge disaster.
		Badger at the Tay Rail Bridge during 2005’s season of trips commemorating the disaster.
		Badger passing under the Friarton Bridge on one of her passenger carrying Perth trips.
	www.mvstay.org /html/tay_boat_trips.html (597 words)

	McGonagall Online: The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay
		It is certainly the longest bridge of its kind in the world, and that is a thing of which its projectors and makers are quite entitled to be proud.
		Who knows whether the "Bard of the Tay Bridge" might have remained an unknown hand loom weaver had it not been for the huge structure taking shape a mere stone's throw from his home on Patons Lane.
		Of course, both the bridge and the poem were soon to be overshadowed by the events of 28th December 1879 - The Tay Bridge Disaster.
	www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk /poems/pgbridge.htm (1155 words)

	Tayport Community Website (Fife, Scotland, UK) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Thousands came to from all quarters to see the bridge, which was acknowledged to be one of the greatest triumphs of engineering skill the world had ever witnessed.
		For eighteen months trains were run over the bridge night and day without the occurrence of a single accident, and the confidence of the public in the stability of the structure was fully established.
		A dark cloud obscured the moon; a wild gust tore down the valley of the Tay; flashes of fire were seen blazing from the bridge, and suddenly the lights of the train disappeared.
	www.tayport.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /article.php?id=53 (824 words)

	Newport-on-Tay Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		The story of Newport-on-Tay is almost entirely the story of Dundee, for without the presence of Scotland's fourth city on the far bank of the Tay, there's no particular reason for anything to have developed where Newport now stands.
		By the 1700s there was a regular ferry making the crossing of the Tay from Dundee to Woodhaven, roughly where today's Newport-on-Tay and neighbouring Wormit meet, though ferries had plied these waters since the 1100s.
		The coming of the Tay Rail Bridge in 1878 (and its replacement in 1887) confirmed Newport-on-Tay as a highly desirable suburb of Dundee and the style of the shops and public buildings such as the old ferry terminus reflect the grandeur of the times.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /newport/newportontay (625 words)

	Walk #557: Broughty Ferry to Errol
		It is notable for a couple of reasons; firstly, when it opened it was the longest rail bridge over tidal waters in the world, and secondly the present bridge is a replacement for the first, which collapsed shortly after it opened, killing 88 people.
		The engineer of the first bridge, Thomas Bouch, was ruined by the disaster when it was proved that the bridge had not been built strongly enough, and he was removed from the contract to design the Forth Bridge.
		The Tay Bridge is not the most elegant structure in the world, but it certainly does the job.
	www.britishwalks.org /walks/2003/557.php (1718 words)

	Dundee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It is situated on the north bank of the River Tay, whose wide estuary is bridged by the Tay [Rail] Bridge and the Tay Road Bridge, each over 1½ miles long.
		The Tay Bridge was celebrated in verse by William McGonagall.
		The conurbation stretches along the Tay from Invergowrie in the west to Broughty Ferry and Monifieth in the east.
	www.sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk /dundee/index.html (291 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)