Nice walk today along the Tay at Dundee. I do like this bridge, especially with the afternoon sun shining on it.
Photo taken in 2024 on the 145th anniversary of the Tay Bridge Railway disaster in which 75 people died when the original bridge fell in a storm.
Brig o Tay.
The feet of the old bridge that fell in 1879 still visible next to the new one.
It's eerie crossing the Tay Bridge, and seeing the piers for the original, lapped by the cold, tidal waters that swallowed a train and passengers one stormy night, as the old bridge gave way.
Ghosts, or perhaps now tombstones, to the past.
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For #WorldPoetryDay, here is John Laurie, reading The Tay Bridge Disaster by William McGonagall.
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Colin Haynes
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