Tay Bridge Disaster

Journalist and Historian Norman Watson with a money box made from the wood of one of the Tay Bridge Disaster train carriages.

Collectors ‘long excited’ by mail recovered following the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879, says Dundee historian

January 18 2020

Aftermath of the Tay Bridge Disaster in December 1879

Memories of Dundee diver tasked with retrieving bodies and mail bags the day after the Tay Bridge Disaster

January 11 2020

Aftermath of the Tay Bridge Disaster in December 1879

Mother of Tay Bridge Disaster train stoker ‘watched in horror’ from Dundee home as tragedy unfolded

January 6 2020

A drawing of the Tay Bridge Disaster

FEATURE: Tay Bridge Disaster 140th anniversary – Why human impact of tragedy is still being felt

December 28 2019

Pictured at the unveiling of the memorial to the victims of the Tay Rail Bridge Disaster on Riverside Drive, Dundee in 2013 - Gabrielle Thomson (8) reads the name of her great great great grandfather David Watson

Descendent of Tay Bridge Disaster victim praises trustees for the memorials to the 59 souls ‘known to have died’

December 28 2019

Apples growing at the Megginch Castle orchard.

Perth & Kinross

Shaped by a River: A disaster, a giant and a bloody ploughman

November 1 2019

Angus & The Mearns

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The winter storm which shook Courier Country

January 31 2018

The Tay Bridge Disaster happened on December 28, 1879.

What really caused the Tay Bridge disaster?

November 29 2016

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