The Tay Bridge Memorial commemorates the tragedy that happened on 27 December 1879 when the original Tay Rail Bridge collapsed in a storm taking the lives of 59 people who were on a train travelling across the bridge to Dundee.
The original crossing had been the longest railway bridge in the world but during the storm the wind was said to have blown the iron girders in the central section away "like matchwood".
The memorial is one of a pair with the same standing on the other side of the Tay in Dundee. memorials on either side of the river, in Dundee. They are each made of three pieces of granite and positioned so they face where the central span of the bridge once stood. They are inscribed with the 59 names of those who died.
The Tay Bridge Memorial is located in Wormit. It is in the carpark on the Coastal Walk at Wormit Bay, at the west end of Bay Road.
