THE TAY BRIDGE
... ThlE TAY BRIDGE. [HAT PA'kT CE TEE IBRILGE WEICH HAS FAILED IS SaOWN IN THE PLATE BY TWO CROSSES PLACED OVER IT.] The idea of bridgieg the Tay, and so conneetiug two great railway concerns, the Dindee and Perth and the Edinburgh and Northern, was first sag- gested in 1845, whcn a high -level bri1ge was projected near Newburgh. This scheme fell tbrough, as did also a similar one in 1865, and a ...