The Tay Bridge

Tay Bridge

The 100+ year old New Tay Railway bridge in Dundee, Scotland replaced the old bridge that got blown down in a terrible storm in 1879, immortalised in a poem by the best-worst poet, William Topaz McGonagal:

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.

’Twas about seven o’clock at night,
And the wind it blew with all its might,
And the rain came pouring down,
And the dark clods seem’d to frown,
And the Demon of the air seem’d to say –
“I’ll blow down the Bridge of Tay.”

Read the rest, if you must, here.

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