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Tay Bridge
All photographs of this location in date order.
![Northbound track on the Tay Bridge seen from a passing southbound train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/872.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Tay Bridge seen from a train crossing over it. North end.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/873.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![A B1 crossing the Tay Bridge in August 1962 with a northbound goods.<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1962]](/images/51000/51729.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Gresley A3 Pacific no 4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I> runs out onto the Tay Bridge on 16 May 1964 with the Queens College RTS <I>'Flying Scotsman Railtour'</I>.<br><br>[John Robin 16/05/1964]](/images/48000/48469.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![A Class 40 comes off the north end of the Tay Bridge and is about to run through the former Esplanade station with a rake of 20T mineral wagons in April 1979.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 03/04/1979]](/images/20000/20620.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Entering the central section of the Tay Bridge headed towards Dundee one fine spring morning in 1980 [see image 33615].<br><br>[David Panton 01/04/1980]](/images/28000/28222.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![55015 <I>Tulyar</I> takes the <I>Deltic Salute</I> railtour onto the Tay Bridge on 24 October 1981.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Alexander 24/10/1981]](/images/20000/20820.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![A BR InterCity 125 comes off the Tay Bridge in 1982 with a mid morning Aberdeen - Kings Cross service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/05/1982]](/images/45000/45422.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![HST crossing the Tay Bridge southbound in 1982.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/1982]](/images/3000/3420.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![A Type 2 crosses the Tay Bridge with a Dundee - Edinburgh train in 1983, while two figures walk along the down line. The piers of the ill-fated original bridge still stand alongside.<br><br><br>
<I>Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!<br><br>
Alas! I am very sorry to say<br><br>
That ninety lives have been taken away<br><br>
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,<br><br>
Which will be remember'd for a very long time.</I><br><br><br>
William McGonagall (1825-1902)<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/04/1983]](/images/4000/4541.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Tay Bridge crossing - May 2005. View north from Wormit.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/05/2005]](/images/4000/4084.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![The <I>High Girders</I> of the rail bridge are seen looking west between the supports of the road bridge. Pictured from Broughty Ferry.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2006]](/images/13000/13544.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![A view of the Tay Bridge - you can see the piers of the original bridge clearly from here.<br><br>[Adrian Coward 06/06/2006]](/images/10000/10854.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Preliminary work has started on the Tay Bridge. With the inflatable safety launch standing by.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/09/2006]](/images/10000/10974.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Southbound HST crossing the A85 Riverside Drive in March 2007 as it runs out onto the Tay Bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel /03/2007]](/images/13000/13928.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![A southbound HST heads out onto the Tay Bridge on 6 March past ongoing work on the 3 year maintenance and refurbishment programme announced in September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/03/2007]](/images/13000/13906.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Dundee City and the Tay Bridge. A CG170 nears the south side.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2007]](/images/15000/15153.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Renovation work continues on the Tay Bridge in June 2007.<br><br>[Adrian Coward 09/06/2007]](/images/15000/15362.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![1240 Edinburgh to Aberdeen rounds the curve off the Tay Bridge into Dundee. Work is well underway to exchange the deck bearings and trusses, etc. The train is made up of two different class 170 liveries. The first three coaches are in dark blue Firstscotrail colours and the second set of three carriages are painted in the promotional livery promoting the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, which was successful.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15500.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Riverside Drive is busy in June 2007 as this 6 car 170 slows for the ninety degree turn towards Dundee station.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15505.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![A <I>Commonwealth Games 2014</I> Turbostar about to pass through the former Esplanade station after reaching the Dundee end of the Tay Bridge, despite the road sign.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /08/2007]](/images/17000/17361.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Superstructure of the High Girders being renovated. 14.08.07. The supports look longer as it is neap tide.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/08/2007]](/images/16000/16198.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![North end work well underway on 14 August 2007, with a safety boat and the works craft from nearby Newport Pierhead.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/08/2007]](/images/16000/16214.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![This Edinburgh 170 is passing the locus of the former distant semaphore signal for Tay Bridge South Junction. Ninewells Hospital and the three blocks of high flats at Blackness are visible on the north shore beyond the train.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 12/01/2008]](/images/18000/18032.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![First outing of <I>The Royal Scotsman</I> in 2008. The train, hauled by 47804, is seen crossing the Tay Bridge on 21 April heading for Dundee and eventually Keith. Below the bridge a father watches his son and labrador at play.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/04/2008]](/images/18000/18741.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![View north from Wormit on 9 February with trains about to pass on the Tay Bridge.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/02/2010]](/images/27000/27695.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![A southbound service heads round the curve at the north end of the Tay Bridge.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2010]](/images/28000/28268.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![It is 31 years since I photographed the central section of the Tay <br>
Bridge from a train travelling north during my Easter holiday from <br>
school [see image 28222]. Now we have the view from a southbound <br>
train, taken on 9 April 2011. At this rate I can expect to have both views of the north end by the year 2073. Please do bear with me.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 09/04/2011]](/images/33000/33615.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Out on the Tay Bridge on 15 April unit 170414 will shortly reach the high girders with an Edinburgh bound service, as the Compass railtour heads north near the end of the outward leg of its journey from Blackpool.<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/04/2011]](/images/33000/33695.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Travelling north across the Tay Bridge inside the High Girders (version 2) on 15 April 2011. [See image 4541]<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/04/2011]](/images/37000/37002.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![A quiet Saturday afternoon on the Firth of Tay in April 2013, looking south from Riverside Drive, Dundee, across to the Kingdom of Fife.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 20/04/2013]](/images/42000/42793.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![The <I>Great Britain VI</I> leaves the Tay Bridge southbound on 24 April 2013 behind 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I>.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 24/04/2013]](/images/42000/42842.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![View from an Aberdeen to Edinburgh service on the north curve of the Tay Bridge. The stumps of the original structure, in various stages of decay, can be seen clearly from southbound trains all the way across the firth.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 07/03/2014]](/images/46000/46576.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Looking north across the Tay on 12 April 2014 with Deltic 55002 <I>The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry</I> about to take <I>'The Deltic Aberdonian'</I> out onto the Tay Bridge.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 12/04/2014]](/images/47000/47035.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![View north across the Tay Bridge from slightly east of Wormit station site, on what was, despite the clouds, a warm and pleasant Saturday afternoon.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 20/06/2015]](/images/51000/51726.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Looking north across the Tay on 20 June 2015 as a northbound ScotRail Turbostar, forming the 15.00 from Edinburgh Waverley to Dundee, meets the 14.52 ex Aberdeen southbound Virgin East Coast HST 125.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 20/06/2015]](/images/51000/51741.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![The 15.28 Edinburgh Waverley - Inverurie heading north across the Tay Bridge on 20 June 2015.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 20/06/2015]](/images/51000/51768.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![The Tay Bridge on a fine 31 May 2016, looking south from the Matthew Building of Dundee University.<br><br>[Ross Wilson 31/05/2016]](/images/55000/55352.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![The 17.20 Dundee to Edinburgh Waverley Turbo star cautiously crossing the Tay Bridge due to structural painting works.<br><br>[Gordon Steel 21/03/2017]](/images/61000/61998.jpg "Tay Bridge")
![Hardly enough room for the sign!<br><br>[John Yellowlees 02/10/2017]](/images/61000/61127.jpg "Tay Bridge")
