Tay Bridge (North British Railway)

Introduction

This was the second Tay Bridge which replaced the collapsed bridge. Modifications were required to the approach lines to the former bridge. The current bridge is double track whereas the Tay Bridge [1st] was single.






Dates

  /03/2000Tay Bridge (North British Railway)
Railtrack commits £15M to refurbish the Tay Bridge. This will lift a speed restriction and allow freight to pass over the bridge (instead of via Perth).
  /09/2000Tay Bridge (North British Railway)
John Mowlem wins a £16m contract to strengthen the Tay Bridge with work due for completion in May 2003. In addition to allowing heavier trains the improvement will also allow Sprinters to travel at over 25mph in the curved sections.
  /03/2003Tay Bridge (North British Railway)
Work on the Tay Bridge to clean and paint piers, replace strengthening cross-girders and replace rivets over 18 months is completed at a cost of £16M. Following this work the bridge will re-open to freight.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Dundee to Wormit

This was a two platform station at the north end of the Tay Bridge. The station remains largely intact and the southbound station building is used by engineers for maintenance of the bridge. The platforms are timber. The station extends out over Riverside Drive, which was originally known as the Esplanade. The station dates from the second bridge, the original had no station here.
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Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
47636 'Sir John de Graeme' leaves the Tay Bridge with a northbound train in 1990. Seen from the platform of the former Dundee Esplanade station. ...
Bill Roberton //1990
ScotRail 170413 photographed shortly after leaving Dundee station with an afternoon service to Edinburgh on 20 September 2007. The DMU is running west ...
John Furnevel 20/09/2007
170429 descends from the Tay Bridge, through the remains of Dundee Esplanade Station (closed October 1939), to meet the Perth line at Dundee Central ...
Colin Miller 26/06/2019
The bridge works and road works almost appear to merge on Dundee Esplanade on 20 September 2007, as a northbound train comes off the bridge on the ...
John Furnevel 20/9/2007
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This double track girder viaduct is the longest viaduct in the United Kingdom at 10,711 ft. It crosses the River Tay between Wormit and Dundee.
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Taken from Wormit, a close up of world record holding LNER power car 43302 (148.5mph) as it heads south across the Tay Bridge in August 2018. The ...
Mark Bartlett 24/08/2018
PS 'B L Nairn' heads across the Tay towards Newport, with the unmistakable outline of the railway bridge in the background. The ferry service finished ...
Brian Haslehust 04/09/1965
An unidentified Class 170 crosses the Tay Bridge into Dundee on the 11th July 2019. Taken from the V&A viewing balcony, which may offer a good photo ...
Iain Teaz 11/07/2019
View from a northbound train crossing the Tay Bridge. The picture dates from the autumn of 1963 and the locomotive crossing in the other direction is ...
Brian Haslehust //1963
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This junction opened shortly after the new Tay Bridge opened in 1887. The junction was between the main line to the south and the local line to Newport.
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Aberdeen to Edinburgh train crossing the bridge showing a fine view of the southern approach to Dundee. ...
Brian Forbes /07/2006
Tay Bridge South signal box in May 2005. ...
John Furnevel 16/05/2005
As the sun sets over the Tay Bridge 47710 comes south on an Aberdeen to Edinburgh working through Wormit in December 1989. ...
Ewan Crawford /12/1989
Turbostar 170395 approaches Tay Bridge South signal box with a Scotrail service for Edinburgh on 24th August 2018. ...
Mark Bartlett 24/08/2018
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Wormit Station

This junction opened shortly after the new Tay Bridge opened in 1887. The junction was between the main line to the south and the local line to Newport.
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Aberdeen to Edinburgh train crossing the bridge showing a fine view of the southern approach to Dundee. ...
Brian Forbes /07/2006
Tay Bridge South signal box in May 2005. ...
John Furnevel 16/05/2005
As the sun sets over the Tay Bridge 47710 comes south on an Aberdeen to Edinburgh working through Wormit in December 1989. ...
Ewan Crawford /12/1989
Turbostar 170395 approaches Tay Bridge South signal box with a Scotrail service for Edinburgh on 24th August 2018. ...
Mark Bartlett 24/08/2018
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This was a two platform station at the south end of the Tay Bridge and start of the Newport Railway. The line became single track as it ran east to Tayport.
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Construction at Wormit, 1996. A new station perhaps? No. Houses. The platform of the former station can be seen to the right. ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
The blocked west portal of the bridge under Riverside Road which carried the original east curve approach to the first Tay Bridge. When the bridge was ...
Mark Bartlett 24/08/2018
View west towards the Tay Bridge from Wormit. A tunnel mouth is on the left, the alignment to the second bridge. The earlier approach to the first ...
Bill Roberton //1994
Edinburgh train leaving the south end of the Tay Bridge on 12 February. ...
Brian Forbes 12/02/2008
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