Robertson had timed the train with his pocket watch, and to give the railway the benefit of the doubt he had rounded up to the nearest five seconds.

[124] At the start of one of these abrasions, a rivet head had lifted and splinters of wood were lodged between a tie bar and a cover plate. I consider that every bolt should have been a steady pin, and should have fitted the holes to which it was applied, that every strut should have had a firm abutment, that the joints of the columns should have been incapable of movement, and that the parts should have been accurately fitted together, storey by storey upon land and carefully marked and put together again as they had been properly fitted.[112]. "[155] It had to be dismantled and rebuilt by Sir William Arrol to a design by W. R. Galbraith before the line could be opened to traffic in 1881. North British could now boast of filching a quarter of potential Glasgow to Dundee traffic from its competitor, due to that competitor’s revisiting – and needing to reinforce – no fewer than 28 old wooden bridges supporting its tracks. It must have been an awful sight, To witness in the dusky moonlight, While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray, Along the Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay, Oh! According to Benjamin Baker "all the difficulty is in the foundations. Photo credit: National Library of Scotland, A failed iron rivet from the original Tay bridge. George Gilfillan of Dundee,He is the greatest preacher I did ever hear or see.He is a man of genius bright,And in him his congregation does delight,Because they find him to be honest and plain,Affable in temper, and seldom known to complain. No inquiry could come up with an exact sequence. The Tay Bridge Disaster. Arrol then accumulated 54,000 tons of steel, 640,000 cubic feet of granite and 62,000 cubic feet of rubble masonry for North British’s final conquest: the Forth. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. Just 50 years from the birth of passenger railways in Britain, this was a task too daunting; strong side-winds, fog, extremely busy river traffic, soft bedrock and low capital reserves made it nearly impossible. It describes the moment of the disaster as:[170]. Staying on the subject of Arrol, the Victorian age could hardly have thrown up a more uncanny genius. [note 23] On the authority of Stewart they had assumed that the bridge was designed against a wind loading of twenty pounds per square foot (0.96 kPa) 'with the usual margin of safety'. One locomotive, with its five passenger carriages, and one luggage van fell – plunged – into the cold and swirling waters below: right in the middle of the total span, a section that never had been strong due to far too few firth supports and far too many sections where – to allow for expansion – sections of decking were not securely fastened to their pillars.

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When observing from the shore, he had measured 80 seconds for trains travelling through the girders, but not on any train he had travelled on. Credits: nar.

Henry (Harry) Watts is a famous Diver hero from Sunderland who save 36 lives at sea and in rivers. Memorials have been placed at either end of the bridge in Dundee and Wormit.[163]. And we can only picture the driver David Marshall – whose body drifted a full four miles by New Year’s Day – feeling he had let everybody down by “failing” to keep control. They had had to be broken up with dynamite before they could be recovered from the bed of the Tay (but only after an unsuccessful attempt to lift the crucial girder in one piece which had broken many girder ties). I am very sorry to sayThat ninety lives have been taken awayOn the last Sabbath day of 1879,Which will be remember’d for a very long time. His best known work is “The Tay Bridge Disaster”, which The Guardian describes as “being deaf to poetic metaphor and employing inappropriate rhythms that resulted in unintentionally amusing poetry.”. Get a round-up of all our stories published during the past week delivered to your email every Saturday. The Tay Bridge Disaster is an article from Science, Volume 1.

[10] The wind speed was measured at Glasgow – 71 mph (114 km/h; 32 m/s) (averaged over an hour) – and Aberdeen, but not at Dundee.


[129] Drummond did not think the carriages had left the rails until after the girders began to fall, nor had he ever known a carriage (light or heavy) to be blown over by the wind. [126] Two marked fifth girder tie bars were produced; one indeed had 3 marks, but two of them were on the underside. As one commentator put it: these chancers, these charlatans, “broke through the lattice girders of honesty and virtue”. 15–16, unless referenced otherwise, "Responsibility for the Accident": Rothery (1880: 44), North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway, List of structural failures and collapses, "Tay Bridge Disaster: Appendix to the Report of the Court of Inquiry (page 42)", "The architect of Scotland's Tay Bridge disaster", "Did your ancestor die in the Tay Bridge disaster? They had heard and seen unsettling wobbles.

George Gilfillan” began: All hail to the Rev. Then on Sunday 28 December 1879, calamity struck. 409–410 (Sir Thomas Bouch), Mins of Ev pp. That raises the possibility that those final three carriages were blown off before Bouch’s structure failed, thus unsettling the engine and front two carriages; or that the whole train jostled against side girders before breaking through; or that crucial piers and pillars gave way first, thus isolating the train above. [135] Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate.

Godfrey Holmes looks back, 140 years on, at the man most responsible for one of Britain’s worst rail disasters, Aftermath: the central section of the bridge lies half-submerged in water, Bouch died in ruin a year after the disaster, The second Tay Bridge was opened in 1887 and is still in use today. All the oral evidence given, reproduced verbatim –. Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker designed the Forth Rail Bridge, built (also by Arrols) between 1883 and 1890. Under the resident engineer there were seven subordinates including a foundry manager.
[94], Brunlees had made no allowance for wind loading on the Solway viaduct because the spans were short and low – if he had had to, he would probably have designed against 30 psf (1.4 kPa) with a safety margin of 4–5 (by limiting strength of iron).

"In the days after the disaster, newspapers suggested 75 victims, but this was based on an over-estimated number of children.". Inquiries were far more immediate and conducted far more efficiently in the late 19th century than the early 21st. So the train sped on with all its might,And Bonnie Dundee soon hove in sight,And the passengers’ hearts felt light,Thinking they would enjoy themselves on the New Year,With their friends at home they lov’d most dear,And wish them all a happy New Year.

The Tay Bridge Disaster occurred during a violent storm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a train from Burntisland to Dundee passed over it, killing all aboard. [93] Pole referred to Smeaton's work, where high winds were said to give 10 psf (0.48 kPa), with higher values being quoted for winds of 50 mph (80 km/h) or above, with the caveat that these were less certain.


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