Train forced to make emergency stop after it hits object on track [STV]
Date: 18/06/2014
A passenger train had to make an emergency stop when it hit an object on the track as it travelled across the Tay Rail Bridge. The East Coast vehicle came to a halt on the Dundee to Fife crossing after striking a piece of metal grating on the track at around 7.35pm on Wednesday.
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A Type 2 crosses the Tay Bridge with a Dundee - Edinburgh train in 1983, while two figures walk along the down line. The piers of the ill-fated original bridge still stand alongside.
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember'd for a very long time.
William McGonagall (1825-1902)
Location: Tay Bridge
Company: Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
05/04/1983 John Furnevel
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember'd for a very long time.
William McGonagall (1825-1902)
Location: Tay Bridge
Company: Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
05/04/1983 John Furnevel
View north from Wormit on 9 February with trains about to pass on the Tay Bridge.
Location: Tay Bridge
Company: Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
09/02/2010 Brian Forbes
Location: Tay Bridge
Company: Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
09/02/2010 Brian Forbes
Royal Scot no 46115 Scots Guardsman slowly hauls the Edinburgh to Inverness section of the 'Great Britain IV' railtour out onto the Tay Bridge on 17 April.
Location: Wormit
Company: Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
17/04/2011 John Robin
Location: Wormit
Company: Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
17/04/2011 John Robin
