From the archives: The Tay Bridge disaster, 1879

By Tom Lowe2023-03-24T07:00:00

Memorial to the Tay Bridge disaster, shutterstock

News item on the death of engineer Sir Thomas Bouch, who designed the bridge which collapsed in a storm killing 75 people

The collapse of the Tay Bridge was one of the worst engineering disasters of the 19th century. At more than 3km long, the bridge was the largest ever built when it opened with great fanfare in May 1878. Queen Victoria herself had travelled over it and its designer, the engineer Thomas Bouch, had been knighted.

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