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Tay Bridge from Wormit - the classic view. The thirteen High Girders
were to allow sailing vessels access up river to Perth. The bridge was
originally opposed by the British Admiralty. The last warship to visit
Perth was HMS MONTROSE (M1126) - a coastal minesweeper - which undertook
passage from Dundee to Perth in the late 1960s. PHOTOs Malcolm
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Tay Bridge is still the longest rail bridge in Great Britain - it was once
the longest in the world. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Dundee multi-storied flat framed by bridge piers as an Edinburgh bound train
rumbles by. Other piers frame an oil rig in March 2005.
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Great North Eastern Railway High Speed Train from London to Aberdeen
feels its way slowly across the Bridge to Dundee, while a ScotRail
Aberdeen to Edinburgh train heads off the Bridge at Wormit. Ninewells
Hospital - the largest in Europe - dominates much of the picture - left to
centre. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Snow still caps the Sidlaw Hills
while a yachtsman heads up-river on a warm March morning in 2005.
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| Dundee City
Council's tribute to the Tay Bridge. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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ScotRail Turbostar train arriving from Edinburgh. It is
sporting the new livery adopted by First Group which gained the ScotRail
franchise in 2004.
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significance of the American Society of Civil Engineers dates from the visit
of US President Ulysses S Grant when he came to inspect the bridge. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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was General Grant who observed that it was "a mighty fine bridge for such a
mighty little town". PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Edinburgh to Aberdeen Turbostar train still in the previous livery
rounds the curve having traversed the thirteen High Girders.
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Malcolm McCrow |
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This commemorative plaque was laid by ScotRail to mark the hundredth
anniversary of the Railway Bridge. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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thirteen High Girders viewed from Riverside Drive. Many of the
ordinary girders from the original Bridge which collapsed in a storm on 28
December
1879 were
used in the construction of the new Bridge which opened in 1887. The
Tay Bridge viewed from Blackness Avenue. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Preserved LNER V2 steam engine Green Arrow heads its special train to the Wormit loops in connexion with
the 1987 Centenary Celebrations.
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special train's arrival from Perth in the morning signalled the start of the
celebrations. That evening it departed for Edinburgh and is seen
(right) coming off the Tay Bridge at Wormit. VIDEO ORIGINAL and
CAPTURES - Malcolm McCrow |
| Road Bridge |
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There is a marked difference in height between the northern (left) and
southern (right) landfalls of the Tay Road Bridge. Tayport Lighthouse
is seen through the piers of the bridge. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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| Tay Road Bridge
and Dundee Law with its War Memorial viewed from Fife. PHOTOs
Malcolm McCrow |
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| The concrete
piers of the Tay Road Bridge. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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Dundee "multies" (left) and more conventional housing (right)
form a backdrop to the Road Bridge while Craigowl with its radio masts has
still a dusting of snow in March 2005. PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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