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Tay Rail Bridge: an engineering icon

Posted: 15 Sep 2013, 07:28
by John Ashworth
Tay Rail Bridge: an engineering icon

The Scots engineer responsible for re-building the Tay Rail Bridge is to be honoured... 100 years after his death.

Sir William Arrol was responsible for the creation of London’s iconic Tower Bridge, the Forth Rail Bridge and stunning engineering feats such as the massive gantry cranes at Harland and Wolf’s shipyard in Belfast, where Titanic was built...

Arrol’s bridges spanned the Nile, the Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney, in Australia, and all those crossing the Manchester Ship Canal...