Railway trip over the Tay Bridge (Silent, 1897)

[clydeferries]

I take it this is the second bridge. If so , they recovered the engine after the disaster and it was known a Diver after that.

[mlpok102]

@clydeferries yes it is the second bridge, the original Tay bridge was a single track railway

[AndyMcArren1356]

I read a book about this Disaster of Tay Bridge. And it said that a waterspout spinning across the River slammed into it and weakened it and fell into the river.

[craigowler]

Read John Prebble's "High Girders" it provides an excellent account as to why the Brig fell doon. Also see my own videos depicting both versions of the Brig

[gaz318]

The train was probably taken across the bridge at a deliberatly slow speed so the footage wasn't too bouncy, steam locomotives to bounce around quite a bit at speed, The Locomotive from the disaster was recovered and ran for some years after, the idea it's still down there is just a myth.

[craigowler]

see my own slide videos regarding the Diver

[nacho1560]

Fascinating to think this was taken only 18 years after the Tay Bridge Disaster.

Was surprised to see two trains passing on the bridge itself. I might be wrong but don't think this is allowed today.

The original engine was indeed recovered and put back in service and known as the Diver, (wouldn't catch me going on it), the guards door is on view in Dundee Museum.

[roddy76to86]

My understanding is that after recent renovation, all trains except heavy freight trains can now pass on the bridge.

[HollyoaksFan2008]

no i don't think they got the train i think it was to far down for them to reach it, i think its still down there.

[BillDFC]

The engine was recovered,the river is quite shallow and sand banks are exposed at low tide. Re.The High Girders by John Prebble.

Dundee is my home town.

[fordlandau]

great old movie. The first Tay bridge fell down in a storm with a passenger train passing over it, in 1879!

[BillDFC]

And no one survived.The engine was recovered from the Tay and put back into service!

[Yownanymous]

Then nicknamed "The Diver" by some drivers

[kloratis]

lol

[AberdeenFC90]

look at the speed its going at you be better off swimming lol

[BillDFC]

Dundee had 3 stations then and was the jute capital of the world.

[jspairman]

very interesting, especially the Dundee railway infrastructure