Visitors to our website who wish to study more detail of the disaster and the theories as to its cause are recommended to review the following:

Books

• The High Girders", John Prebble, 1956
• “The Tay Bridge Disaster - New Light on the 1879 Tragedy", John Thomas, 1972, David & Charles Ltd
• "The Fall of the Tay Bridge", David Swinfen, 1994, Mercat Press
• "Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay", Peter R. Lewis, 2004, Tempus Publishing Ltd
• "Battle for the North", Charles McKean, 2006, Granta Publications
• "Thomas Bouch The Builder of the Tay Bridge", John Rapley, 2007, Tempus Publishing Ltd

Papers

• "The Tay rail bridge disaster - a reappraisal based on modern analysis methods"; T.Martin, BSc, and I.A. Macleod, BSC, PhD, FICE, FIStructE; Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 108, May 1995.
• "Forensic engineering: a reappraisal of the Tay Bridge disaster"; Peter R. Lewis and Ken Reynolds; Published by Maney for the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in "Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2002, Vol 27, No. 4.
• "The Tay rail bridge disaster revisited"; T.Martin, BSc, and I.A. Macleod, BSC, PhD, FICE, FIStructE; Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Bridge Engineering 157, December 2004, Issue BE4.