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Bridge disaster tribute plans lodged with council

Bridge disaster tribute plans lodged with council

Plans for a permanent tribute to those who died in the Tay Bridge disaster have been lodged with Dundee City Council.

The Tay Rail Bridge Disaster Memorial Trust hope to erect three 2m high granite slabs bearing the names of those who died in the 1879 tragedy on either side of the river.

Consent to erect the plinths at Wormit Bay has already been granted by Fife Council and Lord Dundee has also granted the trust permission to build on his land.

The trust now hopes to place the plinths on the Dundee side on Riverside Drive next to the footpath and cycle path and Bridgeview Station restaurant.

Secretary of the trust Ian Nimmo White said: “I’m greatly relieved the plans are at this stage. The biggest relief came when we thought we had enough money to do it.

“We are not strictly speaking a conservation project so national trusts will only support you if you’re taking over an existing structure.

“We’ve managed to do it all with the help of local people from Tayside and Fife and from people around the world including third, fourth or fifth generation descendants.

“Local trusts have made comparatively small contributions and the ordinary punter in the street has given us some cash.”

Fifty-nine people are known to have died when their train plunged into the Tay during a violent storm.

The trust held their inaugural meeting, on the 131st anniversary of the tragedy, at the McManus and plan to unveil the memorials, on what will be the 134th anniversary, on December 28.

Mr Nimmo said the group was about £1,000 off their target, with around £31,000 raised so far.

The Wormit Bay site represents the place where the train was last on land and the Riverside Drive site is the spot it never reached.