TAY BRIDGE DISASTER

135 years after the event, the Tay Bridge Disaster remains the single most catastrophic collapse of a British engineering structure. It shook Britain and the world of engineering to their core and sent a nation into mourning for the seventy-five souls lost to the dark, freezing waters of the Tay. Here Lumley gives the collapse a much wider perspective than the event of one night by delving into the lives of those lost to the disaster, both passengers and railway workers, against a background of a wider Scottish history.