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The Bridge is Down!: Dramatic Eye-witness Accounts of the Tay Bridge Disaster: The Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 as Reported in Transcripts of the Public Enquiry (Railway Heritage)
 
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The Bridge is Down!: Dramatic Eye-witness Accounts of the Tay Bridge Disaster: The Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 as Reported in Transcripts of the Public Enquiry (Railway Heritage) (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Silver Link Publishing Ltd (24 Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857942698
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857942699
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 14.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 851,055 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The collapse of the Tay Bridge in 1879 was one of Britain's most notorious railway disasters. The transcripts of the Committee of Inquiry, held in 1880, reveal the first-hand accounts of the people concerned, from the bridge's designer to railway staff, providing a unique first-hand insight into the building and destruction of the bridge.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very well written account, 23 Sep 2008
By C. Wildervanck (Overschild, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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Finally, the complete story on what happened in 1879. The strength of this book in my opnion is the way in which formal hearings were rewritten into very readable but also very sober accounts. The most spine chilling chapters are those about Observers of the weather and The last train succesfully to cross the Tay Bridge. You know what will be happaning afterwards... It's also very easy to imagine onself in the situation of the people concerned on that dark and stormy night: uncertainty, disbelief...
To call this book a thrilling story would be a gross injustice. It is also a very convincing account of human greed for money and power, and also of everyday stupid misunderstandings leading to this disaster.
One shortcoming of the book in my view is that, because the book is based on statements of the persons concerned, sometimes you wonder what's actually happening: how were the remainders of the bridge en the train lifted out of the water? By steam cranes on a pontoon?
The other shortcoming is that sometimes it takes a lot of imaginative power to understand the technical details, for instance: what lugs broke where? Some simple sketches could have clarified a lot. And as I noticed on the internet, there ARE pictures of those broken lugs. By the way, there's a lot to be found on the internet on this disaster.
But this very well written book is an excellent basis to get involved, curious, and to start your further research.
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