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The death toll was 35, and 179 people were hurt, of whom 24 were detained in hospital. [4] The Scotsman published a detailed list of all the killed and injured . [ 5 ] An eight-year-old girl was counted as missing (some locals swore to seeing her ghost for many years). [ 6 ]
The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent European windstorm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway (NBR) passenger train on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line from Burntisland bound for its final destination of Dundee passed over it, killing all aboard.
Animation of the series of events causing the crash. The disaster occurred on the morning of 22 May. On this morning, both of the northbound night expresses were running late, and the northbound local train required to be shunted at Quintinshill, but the Down passing loop was occupied by the 4.50 am goods train from Carlisle.
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving Dundee and Arbroath Railway" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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This sortable table lists railway accidents in the Republic of Ireland, and before its formation accidents in the provinces of Leinster, Munster and Connacht, plus the counties of Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan. It is currently limited to accidents where at least one train occupant was killed.