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03-22-2011, 03:31 PM
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Tay Bridge Disaster Near Dundee, Scotland, December 28, 1879
The high girders of the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed during a storm near Dundee, Scotland, on the evening of December 28, 1879, taking a passing train with them. There were no survivors. The 1880 Court of Inquiry accepted a death toll of 75 and blamed bridge designer Sir Thomas Bouch, but later research based on death certificates identified 59 victims, including 55 passengers and four crew members. Only 46 bodies were recovered. The locomotive, North British Railway No. 224, was later raised from the wreckage. Contemporary photographs and engravings show the bridge before and after the collapse, fallen girders and damaged piers, divers and salvage crews at work, and the gap left by the destroyed section. Other period material includes newspaper illustrations, a broadsheet poem and accounts published in the immediate aftermath. Also covered here: Photographic Time Line     ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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03-22-2011, 03:34 PM
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Re: Tay Bridge Disaster Near Dundee, Scotland, December 28, 1879
91 pictures from this disaster also o be found on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotl...th/5180839399/ but i dont know how to save pix from that site.... |
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03-22-2011, 07:30 PM
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Re: Tay Bridge Disaster Near Dundee, Scotland, December 28, 1879
Do a screen print. Takes a little time to crop, but you get the pic. Oh .. FANTASTIC post! |
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03-22-2011, 09:37 PM
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Re: Tay Bridge Disaster Near Dundee, Scotland, December 28, 1879
eaton, thanks for the suggestion but that's a little time consuming :p yes, i was thinking it would be awesome as a DR team project for everyone to go into their local papers and find the covers of old editions when disasters happened. |
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03-26-2011, 09:12 AM
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Re: Tay Bridge Disaster Near Dundee, Scotland, December 28, 1879
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03-26-2011, 12:18 PM
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Re: Tay Bridge Disaster Near Dundee, Scotland, December 28, 1879
I can provide pics from the Bridge collapse in point pleasant...but it also has info on the Mothman if you are interested.
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03-26-2011, 03:36 PM
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Re: Tay Bridge Disaster Near Dundee, Scotland, December 28, 1879
me too  thanks man, those are icnredble, they from flickr? if so, how did you manage to get round the flickr copyright warning that stops me from saving their images? i have a list of bridge disasters to research and post here  not started on it yet i know thre's a mothman thread that talks about a few mothman incident, not sure if that bridge collapse is mentioned in there or not |
