ILLUSTRATIONS

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James Roberts battles to the end of the low girders

Railway routes in the east coast of Scotland

Sir Thomas Bouch

Diagram of Bouch’s ‘floating railway’

The floating railway at Broughty Ferry Harbour

Model of the floating railway

The Belah Viaduct

Bouch’s design for the Forth Bridge

The Tay Bridge as originally designed

One of the pontoons used to carry bridge supports

The bridge under construction

Completed girder on jetty

Caisson with workmen

Inside a caisson

A vacuum pump used in excavation

Grothe’s signature on a window-pane

Bouch up on the high girders

The high girders being lifted into position

Wormit Foundry

Wormit Foundry

The Directors make the first crossing

Looking along the high girders from inside

The Tay Bridge completed

The Piper o’ Dundee celebrates the opening of the bridge

The bridge after the accident

Divers at work on the river bed

Wreckage being salvaged at Broughty Ferry

One of the high girders at low tide

No. 224 engine after being recovered from the river bed

The tender after recovery

A carriage found inside the girder

The roof of one of the carriages on Taybridge Station

Diagram of the engine and carriages

Diagram of no. 4 girder showing score marks

The remains of one of the cast-iron columns

Diagram of a column joint

The ties used on the Belah Viaduct

One of William Arrol’s ‘quadrupeds’

Buckets for the steam shovel

Transferring girders from the old bridge to the new

The new girders being hoisted into position

Demolition of a brick column

Testing the new bridge

Memorial to the victims