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Firth of Tay Bridge

Built:	1882 - 1887
Location:	Between Wormit, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom and Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
Crosses:	Tay River

Firth of Tay Bridge (completed 1887).

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Structural Type:

Function / usage:

Railroad (railway) bridge

Replaces:

Firth of Tay Bridge (1877)

Near:

Firth of Tay Road Bridge (1966)

Firms, offices, etc. involved with this structure
Legend: Phase of works
Role	Name	Part of structure

Contractor	Sir William Arrol & Co.

Technical information
	Description	Value
Construction materials used
piers	steel
truss	steel
Dimensions

	total length	3 264 m
	number of spans	85

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	Bernd Nebel: Der Einsturz der Taybrücke
	Railscot: Tay Bridge and associated lines (North British Railway)
	Wikipedia: Tay Rail Bridge

Relevant Literature
	Bottomley, Dave A lifetime's work, in "Bridge Design & Engineering", 4th Quarter 2003, n. 33 v. 9 .
	Brown, David J. Bridges, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York (USA) , ISBN 002517455X, 1993; pp. 71.
	Koerte, Arnold Two Railway Bridges of an Era, Birkhäuser, Basel (Switzerland) , 1992.
	Lewis, Peter R. Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, Tempus, United Kingdom , ISBN 0752431609, 2004.
	McKean, Charles Battle for the North, Granta Books, London (United Kingdom) , ISBN 1862078521, 2006.

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