Dignified tribute was paid to the victims of the Tay Rail Bridge Disaster on Saturday when memorials were officially unveiled at Wormit and Dundee to coincide with the 134th anniversary of the tragedy.
Several hundred people including local school children joined civic dignatories, descendents of those lost and fundraisers for the official unveiling of giant granite blocks that carry the names of the 59 souls “known to have died” in the tragedy of December 28 1879.
The memorials, comprising three angled granite plates at both Wormit Bay and Dundee Riverside, were crafted at a workshop in Inverurie and lowered into place a fortnight ago.
Saturday’s dignified and long overdue ceremonies at Wormit and Dundee Riverside were followed by a spectacular fireworks display in the evening.Photo gallery: Tay Rail Bridge Disaster memorials unveiledHundreds if not thousands of people lined the shore in Newport/Wormit and Dundee to see the display which was fired from a barge anchored in the Tay in front of the bridge.
The display, at 7.15pm, was timed to coincide with the exact moment that the high girders section of the old bridge collapsed during a storm exactly 134 years earlier taking all the passengers and crew with it.
For full coverage see Monday’s Courier.