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• bridgefailures
• railroadbridges
• scotland
• rivertay
• dundee
• railway
• tay
• railwaybridge
• taybridgedisaster
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• taybridgedisasterdundeescotland1879
• damage
• bridgesbuiltworks
• pierssupportingelements
• ruins
• salvage
• southwest
• texas

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• National Library of Scotland 91 photos & illustrations
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• The Library of Congress 24 photos & illustrations
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 8 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 5 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 4 photos & illustrations
• Cornell University Library 3 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 2 photos & illustrations
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• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• Library Company of Philadelphia 1 photo / illustration

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Wreckage salvaged from the collapsed Tay Bridge

from National Library of Scotland

• g_ponsonby said:

  The roof of one of the passenger carriages. The circular holes were almost certainly where the (transportable) carriage lights were inserted.

Irish Mail train crash at Penmaenmawr, August 27 1950

from Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales

• Alan Denney said:

  Five of the six killed on 27 August were fast asleep when a train full of passengers returning from their holidays in Ireland collided with another train at a speed of 70 mph near Penmaenmawr, Caernarfonshire. As a result of a mix up in the signal box a small engine was making its way towards Llandudno when the Irish Mail fast train was travelling in the same direction on the same line. A fireman on board the small engine heard the Irish Mail coming and signalled to the signal box with his lamp that a collision was about to happen. The signal changed from green to red but it was too late. The passenger train collided into one of the small engine's coal wagons pushing it forwards for about 240 yards, ripping the tracks as they moved forward. The force of the collision shattered Irish Mail's dormer carriage and five people inside were killed, further carriages were thrown off the rails. Source: Gwyn Jenkins (ed.), 'Llyfr y Ganrif' (Talybont, Y Lolfa, 1999). education.gtj.org.uk/en/item10/24437

Steam engine salvaged from the Tay

from National Library of Scotland

• Erik Baas is verhuisd naar Ipernity said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Rail_Bridge

• David Flett said:

  I believe this locomotive was repaired and put back into service! Though from the evidence of this photo they must have scrapped the frames, since they are clearly badly buckled. Perhaps it was just the boiler and wheels they reused?