The disaster inspired poems and songs, including local poet William McGonagall's work, The Tay Bridge Disaster, which was written in 1880. A few weeks ago, a local singer-songwriter, Ed Muirhead ...

AN envelope which survived the Tay rail bridge disaster in 1879, one of only 10 items of mail from the fateful train journey, is to be sold at auction later this year, Lynne Robertson writes.

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The most spectacular was the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879, when the railway bridge collapsed in a gale under the passenger ...

The Key Bridge disaster and the shock we feel,” March 26). One thing missing from any of the news I’ve obsessively pored over is what efforts were made to reach the construction workers on the ...

Like a row of dominos, the spans which constituted the bridge collapsed. Six people are presumed dead. While technically not a disaster, the effects of this incident reach far beyond those ...

The dramatic footage of a huge cargo ship colliding with a bridge near Baltimore and causing it to collapse like a scene from a Hollywood disaster movie riveted people around the world Tuesday.

For the first few days of the trials, the ‘Sans Pareil’ proves to be the equal of the ‘Rocket’, but on the seventh day disaster ... on the bridge that used to span the River Tay.

The container ship that smashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore sent a “mayday” warning that it had lost power before the disaster, officials said Tuesday. Quick-thinking ...

Above all else, this is a fundamentally human tragedy. At the same time, the bridge disaster's material impact is significant and urgent. Some estimates for the cost of rebuilding the structure ...

The last time UK emissions were this low, Queen Victoria was on the throne, Benjamin Disraeli was prime minister, Mosley Street in Newcastle became the first road in the world with electric lighting ...