Tay Bridge disaster

When

28 Dec 1879

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

56.44° N, 2.99° W

Description

bridge collapse and train wreck

Deaths

75

Injured

0

Participants

70

Cause

structural failure

Bridge collapse and train wreck

The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent European windstorm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway (NBR) passenger train on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line travelling from Burntisland to Dundee passed over it, killing all aboard.

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