Tay Rail Bridge

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The Tay Rail Bridge is a historic railway bridge in Scotland that carries trains across the Firth of Tay between Dundee and the county of Fife.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf railway bridge
steel bridge
truss bridge
builder Sir William Arrol & Co.
surface form: William Arrol & Co.
carries freight trains
passenger trains
railway traffic
connects Dundee
Fife
constructionStart 1882
country Scotland
crosses Firth of Tay
designer William Henry Barlow
electrification not electrified
engineer William Henry Barlow
gauge standard gauge
hasDisasterAssociation Tay Bridge disaster
hasNearbyCity Dundee
hasNearbyTown Wormit
hasParallelStructure Tay Road Bridge
hasPiersInWater yes
hasStructureType double-track bridge
heritageStatus Category A listed structure
inception 1887
isSuccessorOf Tay Rail Bridge self-linksurface differs
surface form: First Tay Rail Bridge
length 3264 m
approximately 2 miles
listingAuthority Historic Environment Scotland
locatedIn Dundee
Fife
Scotland
locatedInTimeZone Europe/London
maintainedBy Network Rail
material steel
wrought iron
notableEvent opened by the future King Edward VII in 1887
numberOfSpans 85
opened 1887
owner Network Rail
partOf East Coast Main Line
precededBy Tay Bridge disaster
region Dundee City council area
Fife
replaced Tay Rail Bridge self-linksurface differs
surface form: First Tay Rail Bridge
river River Tay
usedFor freight rail services
intercity rail services
regional rail services

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Firth of Tay hasBridge Tay Rail Bridge
River Tay crossedBy Tay Rail Bridge
Edinburgh–Aberdeen railway route usesStructure Tay Rail Bridge
this entity surface form: Tay Bridge
Tayport hasViewOf Tay Rail Bridge
Tay Bridge disaster location Tay Rail Bridge
Tay Bridge disaster bridgeName Tay Rail Bridge
this entity surface form: First Tay Rail Bridge
Dundee Law overlooks Tay Rail Bridge
Tatha crossedBy Tay Rail Bridge
Monifieth beach hasViewOf Tay Rail Bridge
this entity surface form: Tay Rail Bridge (distant)
Port of Dundee near Tay Rail Bridge
Tay Rail Bridge replaced Tay Rail Bridge self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: First Tay Rail Bridge
Tay Rail Bridge isSuccessorOf Tay Rail Bridge self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: First Tay Rail Bridge
Tay Road Bridge parallelTo Tay Rail Bridge
William Arrol notableWork Tay Rail Bridge
this entity surface form: Tay Rail Bridge (second)
Sir William Arrol & Co. notableWork Tay Rail Bridge
this entity surface form: Tay Rail Bridge (second)
Edinburgh to Aberdeen line usesStructure Tay Rail Bridge
Wormit locatedNear Tay Rail Bridge
Wormit hasViewOf Tay Rail Bridge
Thomas Bouch notableWork Tay Rail Bridge
this entity surface form: first Tay Bridge
Thomas Bouch designed Tay Rail Bridge
this entity surface form: first Tay Bridge
Court of Inquiry concludedThat Tay Rail Bridge
subject surface form: Court of Inquiry into the Tay Bridge Disaster
this entity surface form: the Tay Bridge was badly constructed
Court of Inquiry concludedThat Tay Rail Bridge
subject surface form: Court of Inquiry into the Tay Bridge Disaster
this entity surface form: the Tay Bridge was badly maintained
Law Hill hasViewOf Tay Rail Bridge
Hills of Dundee offersViewOf Tay Rail Bridge
Tay bridge Tay Rail Bridge
subject surface form: River Tay
Tay estuary crossedBy Tay Rail Bridge