3-052-370 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Tay Bridge Disaster: pieces of wreck cast up on the beach at Broughty Ferry, 1880. 'The loss of lives is now reckoned at seventy-five, not one person in the train having the slightest chance of escape... The wreckage brought up consists mostly of planks and beams from the permanent way of the railroad, or floor of the bridge, and even these, thick timbers are very much broken up. Yet a few such little things as a lamp, a foot-warmer, a piece of a window-blind or panel, an overcoat, an umbrella, a slipper, or a handkerchief, were got out of the wreck'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.