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The 10th anniversary of the Tay Bridge disaster memorials being unveiled in 2013 is to be marked with a gathering in Dundee.
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Cost-cutting plans were backed to build a double-decker road crossing from Dundee to Fife on the surviving stumps of the ill-fated Tay Bridge.
(Permalink) Tay Bridge Tay Bridge Disaster Tay Road Bridge  Tay Bridge [1st]: A view of the first Tay Bridge from Wormit with Dundee in the background after the fall of the High Girders. A portion of a contemporary postcard in my collection.  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. |
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This is not the first time that Peter Arnott, the prolific Scottish dramatist, has explored the Tay Bridge disaster of December 28, 1879. [Full article requires subscription. -RS]
(Permalink) Perth Theatre Play Tay Bridge Disaster Tay Bridge [1st] The Signalman Theatre  Tay Bridge [1st]: A damaged beam from the original Tay Bridge. On display in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. |
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A terrible train crash on a stormy December night returns to the memory of the man who let the train cross the Tay Bridge ... all is revealed in the ghostly new drama production, Perth Theatre's 'The Signalman'.
(Permalink) Perth Theatre Play Tay Bridge Disaster Tay Bridge [1st] The Signalman Theatre Tay Bridge [1st]: A damaged beam from the original Tay Bridge. On display in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. |
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Scotland does many things badly: football, drugs, transitioning to becoming a normal country, restaurant service, weather. And, in William Topaz McGonagall, we produced a poet said to be the worst in literary history.
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A solo show about the signalman on duty on the night of the Tay Bridge disaster, a play about a troubled teenager's experiences of Scotland's care system and drama set in aboard a space station orbiting a new planet are the big winners in the Oscars of the Scottish theatre world this year.
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One of Scotland's worst rail tragedies, the Tay Rail Bridge Disaster, is to be commemorated with a permanent memorial to the 75 people killed when the bridge collapsed more than 130 years ago.
(Permalink) Tay Bridge Tay Bridge Disaster  Tay Bridge: Superstructure of the High Girders being renovated. 14.08.07. The supports look longer as it is neap tide. 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. |
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