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Event |
Date |
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Dee Bridge disaster |
1847 |
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Bouch appointed to the Edinburgh and Northern Railway |
1849 |
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First train ferry across Forth |
1850 |
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Tay Bridge proposal put to North British Railway |
1854 |
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Act passed to approve Tay Bridge |
July 1870 |
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Contract signed to build a bridge across the Tay |
October 1872 |
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Survey of estuary |
December 1872 |
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Start of site work |
January 1873 |
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Wormit foundry at south end of bridge built |
February 1873 |
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Oxford rail disaster |
1874 |
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Hopkins, Gilkes & Co take over construction contract |
July 1874 |
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Accident in caisson on pier 54; 6 die |
August 1875 |
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Fall of main girder in storm |
February 1877 |
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Bridge finished and first train passes over |
September 1877 |
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Testing of the bridge by Major-General Hutchinson |
February 1878 |
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First passenger train passes over completed bridge |
May 1878 |
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Queen Victoria rides over bridge; Bouch knighted |
June 1878 |
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Bridge collapses in gale killing 75 people |
December 1879 |
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Board of Trade inquiry starts in Dundee |
January 1880 |
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Board of Trade inquiry in London to hear expert evidence |
April 1880 |
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Final report to Parliament in London |
June 1880 |
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