By Hugh Dougherty
RAILWAY design has not been forgotten at the newly-opened £80 million V&A Dundee gallery of design history thanks to exhibits within the iconic building’s Scottish Design Galleries.
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Appropriately for Dundee, there are engineering drawings for building the replacement and present day Tay Bridge, as well as a picture of the original ill-fated structure before its collapse in high winds on December 28, 1879.
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The gallery points out that Thomas Bouch’s flawed design was regarded as a design classic before its high girders failed, taking a train into the stormy Tay with them.
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