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About Tay Rail Bridge
The Tay Rail Bridge stretches out 3km across the Firth of Tay between Dundee and Wormit. It is a serious piece of Victorian engineering with its 85 piers, wrought iron lattice girders, and a long curve at the Dundee end so the line can swing into the station. It opened in 1887 and was built to replace an earlier bridge that collapsed. You can still see rows of brick and stone stumps breaking the surface, even at high tide, from the original bridge. Sometimes you can line it up to have both the bridge and empty stumps in one frame. Riverside Drive puts you down at water level for low angles close in under the ironwork, and crossing to Newport-on-Tay or Wormit turns the view around with Dundee as the background behind the bridge. The firth runs east to the sea here, so the sun tracks along the water. This means that both sunrise and sunset will put amazing colours behind the latticework. If you want to capture the whole bridge span in one shot, you can venture up to the top of Dundee Law, the hill above the city. It will give you an amazing view of the full span with the firth spread out all around it. There is lots of open ground along both shores and the Fife side is a quick run over the road bridge. If you have the patience you can set up and wait for a train crossing. (Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom)
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