Date: 03/06/2020

Work is now underway to replace more than 1,200 sleepers located on the Tay Bridge, the longest railway structure in Scotland.

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Iconic Tay Bridge is having sleepers renewed

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Work is now underway to replace more than 1,200 sleepers located on the Tay Bridge, the longest railway structure in Scotland.

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'Opened June 20 1887' reads the plaque above the central section of the Tay Bridge, seen from a northbound HST on 27 February 2019. Photographed with only my camera outside the window, naturally.
Location: Tay Bridge
Company: Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
27/02/2019 David Panton

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.
Location: Tay Bridge
Company: Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
12/01/2008 Brian Forbes

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.

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

William McGonagall (1825-1902)
Location: Tay Bridge
Company: Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
05/04/1983 John Furnevel

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