Tay Rail Bridge with fast-running tides. Tay Rail Bridge The Tay Bridge carries the railway across the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife. Its span is . It is the second bridge to occupy the site. Plans for a bridge over the Tay to replace the train ferry service emerged in 1854 but the first Tay Bridge did not open until 1878. It was a lightweight lattice design of relatively low cost with a single track. On 28 December 1879, the bridge suddenly collapsed in high winds. The incident is one of the greatest bridge-related
John Tay Heywood Christian. Tay arrived in Fiji with a cargo of "literature, beans and dried fruit." He was the first Seventh-day Adventist missionary to work on Fiji. The "Pitcairn" left him at Suva, Fiji, on 21 September 1891 and sailed for Norfolk Island. Tay died at Suva of influenza on 8 January 1892. John Tay John I. Tay (1832 – 8 January 1892) was a Seventh-day Adventist missionary who was known for his pioneering work in the South Pacific. It was through his efforts that most of the inhabitants of Pitcairn Island were converted to Adventism, and that the General Conference