Tay Bridge disaster
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tay-bridge-disaster-185-16406669
title:
Tay Bridge disaster
text:
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 from Burntisland bound for its final destination of 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-bra
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Bridge collapse and train wreck
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Bridge_disaster
date created:
2006-04-21T19:49:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T22:07:11Z
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