Tay Bridge Disaster
About Tay Bridge Disaster
The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent European windstorm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway (NBR) passenger train on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line travelling from Burntisland to Dundee passed over it, killing all aboard. The bridge, designed by Sir Thomas Bouch, used lattice girders supported by iron piers, with cast iron columns and wrought iron cross-bracing. The piers were narrower and their cross-bracing was less extensive and robust than on previous similar designs by Bouch.
On the show
One of his most famous poems was the Tay Bridge Disaster, where a bridge had collapsed and lots of people had been killed. It starts off, "Beautiful railway bridge of the silvery Tay, alas, I am very sorry to say that 90 lives have been taken away on the last Sabbath day of 1879, which will be remembered for a very long time" — that's the level of poetry we're dealing with.
from 238: No Such Thing As A Low Sofa, 2018-10-12 at 00:01:43 · read transcript
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