Girder

Description

One of two girder sections recovered from the Tay Railway Bridge which collapsed on 28 December 1879, later incorporated in a house in Broughty Ferry

Museum reference

T.1978.69.1

Collection

Transport

Object name

Girder

Production information

Unknown
Unknown

Date

1870s

Materials

Wrought iron

Physical description

Wrought iron

Associations

Tay Railway Bridge, Dundee, Angus, Scotland, Northern Europe
Broughty Ferry, Angus, Scotland, Northern Europe
Tay Bridge Disaster

Exhibitions

• Window on the World (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

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