page_title: Tay Rail Bridge
hierarchical_section_title: Tay Rail Bridge
caption_attribution_description: Pre Grouping railway junction around Dundee &amp; Broughty Ferry
context_page_description: The Tay Bridge is a railway bridge about two and a quarter miles long that spans the Firth of Tay in Scotland, between the city of Dundee and Wormit, Fife.
  As with the Forth Rail Bridge, the Tay Bridge has been called the Tay Rail Bridge since the construction of the Tay Road Bridge over the firth. The original rail bridge replaced an early train ferry.
  The present Tay Bridge is the second Rail bridge over the Tay. The first one collapsed in 1879 in a storm, with great loss of life.
context_section_description: The Tay Bridge (or Tay Rail Bridge) is a railway bridge about two and a quarter miles (three and a half kilometres) long that spans the Firth of Tay in Scotland, between the city of Dundee and Wormit, Fife (grid reference NO391277).
  As with the Forth Rail Bridge, the Tay Bridge has been called the Tay Rail Bridge since the construction of the Tay Road Bridge over the firth. The original rail bridge replaced an early train ferry.
  The present Tay Bridge is the second Rail bridge over the Tay. The first one collapsed in 1879 in a storm, with great loss of life.
caption: A 1910 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing the Tay Bridge and connecting lines, also the ferry connecting Tayport with Broughty Ferry
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