"Fallen girders, Tay Bridge". The damage to the bridge’s structure is clearly seen in this image, one of the series commissioned after the disaster which show in detail the destroyed piers and girders, wreckage of the train and steam engine and other parts salvaged from the Tay.
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…
Fallen Girders, Tay Bridge
Artist
Date
1886–7
From
Forth Bridge illustrations 1886-1887
