Fascinating to think this was taken only 18 years after the Tay Bridge Disaster. Was surprised to see two trains passing on the bridge itself. I might be wrong but don't think this is allowed today. The original engine was indeed recovered and put back in service and known as the Diver, (wouldn't catch me going on it), the guards door is on view in Dundee Museum.
The engine was recovered,the river is quite shallow and sand banks are exposed at low tide. Re.The High Girders by John Prebble. Dundee is my home town.
Fascinating to think this was taken only 18 years after the Tay Bridge Disaster.
Was surprised to see two trains passing on the bridge itself. I might be wrong but don't think this is allowed today.
The original engine was indeed recovered and put back in service and known as the Diver, (wouldn't catch me going on it), the guards door is on view in Dundee Museum.
And no one survived.The engine was recovered from the Tay and put back into service!
great old movie. The first Tay bridge fell down in a storm with a passenger train passing over it, in 1879!
i have been on that railway bridge loads of time becuse i live in dunndee xxxx
The engine was recovered,the river is quite shallow and sand banks are exposed at low tide. Re.The High Girders by John Prebble.
Dundee is my home town.
I take it this is the second bridge. If so , they recovered the engine after the disaster and it was known a Diver after that.
Dundee had 3 stations then and was the jute capital of the world.
its 1897 not 1879
lol