Date: 18/08/2022

Cost-cutting plans were backed to build a double-decker road crossing from Dundee to Fife on the surviving stumps of the ill-fated Tay Bridge.

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Would a double-decker road crossing on stumps of old Tay Rail Bridge have worked?

The Courier

Cost-cutting plans were backed to build a double-decker road crossing from Dundee to Fife on the surviving stumps of the ill-fated Tay Rail Bridge. The

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A view of the first Tay Bridge from Wormit with Dundee in the background after the fall of the High Girders. A portion of a contemporary postcard in my collection.
Location: Tay Bridge [1st]
Company: Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
// Ewan Crawford Collection

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

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