Thomas Bouch The Builder of the Tay Bridge

by Rapley, John

• ISBN13: 9780752436951
• ISBN10: 0752436953
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Tempus

Summary

It was the longest bridge in the worlda true wonder of the timebut within a year it had collapsed. The Tay Railway Bridge was to have been the pinnacle of a career spent building railways and bridges in England and Scotland. When the bridge came crashing down in December 1878, it brought down its designer Thomas Bouch as well. Bouch became famous when he developed the idea of roll-on/roll-off ferries for the Edinburgh and Northern Railway on the river Forth, but it was his Tay bridge and the proposed Forth Railway Bridge that brought him the fame he craved. With the loss of the Tay Bridge, he became a recluse and died in October 1880.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 6
Picture Credits	p. 7
Foreword	p. 9
The Origins of the Bouch Family	p. 11
The Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee Railway	p. 23
Marriage, Family and a New House	p. 41
Thomas Bouch, Surveyor: Railways, Horse Trams and a Pier	p. 47
Minor Lines North of the Forth	p. 59
Minor Lines to the South of Edinburgh	p. 71
Works Carried out by Thomas Bouch in the North of England	p. 85
Schemes to Cross the Forth and a Strange Bridge over the Tyne	p. 103
The Tay Bridge, 1873-1877	p. 115
The Bridge in Service	p. 129
The Last Train	p. 139
The Court of Inquiry and its Aftermath	p. 149
The Swansong of Sir Thomas Bouch	p. 165
Appendices	p. 179
Select Bibliography	p. 185
Index	p. 187
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