| Charles McKean offers new conclusions about why the first Tay Bridge collapsed and follows the rise and fall of the career of engineer Thomas Bouch. HE tells how the Forth and Tay Bridges, the largest bridges in the world eventually became reality. Costing £4 million and constructed by over 5,000 men they were without precedent in terms of scale and engineering. This epic tale follows the railway battle for Scotland from 1845 and the people it involved: from the Victorian Entrepreneurs, poets, town councillors; to the engineers, briggers, and rivet boys; to the pioneering contractor William Arrol who constructed the bridges that stand today. Meticulously researched and vividly told, Battle for the North explores the complicated reality underlying the Victorian pursuit of progress. Contents:
- Prologue
- The Engine of Modernisation
- The Battle for Scotland
- Bouch’s Bridges
- The Longest and Cheapest Railway Bridge in the World
- The Abbreviated Life of the First Tay bridge
- A Choreographed Inquiry
- The Tumbling of Bouch’s Bridges
- Phoenix in the Tay
- Conquering the Forth
- Warfare Sublimated
- Envoi
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Continent: Europe
Country: UK |
