The Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay - Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 (Paperback)

Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain's worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in the fall of the Tay Bridge, but how did it happen? The accident reports say that high wind and poor construction were to blame, but Peter Lewis, an Open University engineering professor, tells the real story of how the bridge so spectacularly collapsed in December 1879.

General

Imprint:	The History Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Peter R. Lewis
Dimensions:	248 x 172 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-7524-3160-4
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > Trains & railways: general interest
LSN:	0-7524-3160-9
Barcode:	9780752431604

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