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Tay Bridge Disaster
Robin Lumley
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Description for Tay Bridge Disaster
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, 16 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKSH; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
On Sunday, 28 December 1879, the 5.27 mail and passenger train from Burntisland to Dundee went out across the world’s longest bridge on a black, fierce night, only to be dashed to pieces in the River Tay as the bridge collapsed during one of the worst storms in Scottish history. The Tay Bridge Disaster remains to this day the worst catastrophic failure of a civil engineering structure in Britain – the land equivalent of the Titanic sinking. In this book, author Robin Lumley brings a poignant human perspective to the fateful night in 1879 that shook Britain and the world ... Read more
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Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752499468
SKU
V9780752499468
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99-10
About Robin Lumley
ROBIN LUMLEY is best known as a record producer and keyboardist member of bands with Phil Collins, David Bowie and Roy Wood, amongst many others. However, he has long been an avid railway and military history fan, as well as a railway modeller who has contributed regularly to magazines on that subject in the UK and Australia. This is his ... Read more
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