A permanent memorial to the 75 people killed when the Tay Bridge collapsed finally looks set to be installed after more than 130 years.
A group to administer a Tay Bridge Disaster memorial fund has been officially formed.
It is hoped a main memorial in Dundee and a smaller one on the Fife side of the bridge can be put up.
“People are surprised that there hasn’t previously been a memorial to what was a very significant and tragic event in the latter part of the Victorian era,” said Dundee West End councillor Fraser Macpherson.
“It was a national disaster that left 75 people dead and we just feel there is a need to recognise that.”
Mr Macpherson has contacted the council’s archives section, which believes the only plaques in Dundee are there to mark the centenary of the construction of the present Tay Bridge.
The moves were sparked by calls for a memorial from a Fife descendant of two of the victims of the disaster.
Stuart Morris, Laird of Balgonie, said the event, in which a train plunged into the river in 1879 after part of the bridge collapsed during a storm, should be remembered.
His plea was taken up by Mr Macpherson, and both men, with representatives of the Tay Valley Family History Society and community councils in Wormit, Tayport and Dundee, attended a meeting last week.
“It was a very positive meeting and the general view was that it is right that we should create a permanent memorial to the people that lost their lives, ” said Mr Macpherson.
“We had a discussion, and the consensus was that the best place for the memorial would be on the Dundee side at the bend on Riverside Drive near the parking area.
“However, we feel it is important there is some marking of the disaster on both sides of the bridge.”
This could take the form of displays providing information about the disaster, he added.
The original bridge was designed by the famous railway engineer Sir Thomas Bouch, using a lattice grid that combined wrought and cast iron.
A train was travelling along it between Wormit and Dundee on December 28, 1879, when the bridge collapsed during a violent storm.
Among those killed in the tragedy were Mr Morris’s great-great-great grandmother Elizabeth Mann and her 16-year-old granddaughter Elizabeth Brown, who were travelling back to Dundee after visiting relations in Leuchars.
Although there has been no official memorial for the disaster in Dundee, it is remembered in the famous poem by William Topaz McGonagall.