"Steam engine salvaged from the Tay"; from a series of 91 photographs of the wreckage after the Tay Bridge disaster, commissioned by John Trayner on behalf of the Board of Trade.
Featured on PDR in the essay The Forth Bridge: Building an Icon
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND - Alison Metcalfe, curator in the Manuscript and Archive Collections department, presents the library's collection of photographs recording the construction of the Forth Bridge, the first major structure in Britain to be made of steel and a milestone in civil engineering.
Also appearing in the essay…
Steam Engine Salvaged from the Tay
Artist
Date
1886–7
From
Forth Bridge illustrations 1886-1887
