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Tay Bridge disaster

1879 CE · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Europe · Disaster

Tay Bridge disaster
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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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