Built between 1882-7, the Tay Railway Bridge was constructed by engineers W H and Crawford Barlow for the North British Railway. Leading to the South from Dundee. It is the longest bridge in Britain at 2.75 miles and consists of a series of wrought-iron trusses on riveted plate piers with brick foundations. The structure incorporates some of the trusses of the first bridge (completed 1878 and partly blown down in a violent storm while a train was crossing with a loss of 70 lives on 28 December 1879),and the stumps of the piers of the old bridge can be seen downstream.
