'Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay!
The longest of the present day
That has ever crossed o’er a tidal river stream,
Most gigantic to be seen,
Near by Dundee and the Magdalen Green.'

A verse of the poem,The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, by William McGonagall , Scotland's worst poet maybe. The poem is etched along the espalnade between Dundee 'Discovery Point' and the rail bridge.



The Tay Bridge Centenary was in June 1987. I should perhaps first point out that this was the anniversary of the opening of the second Tay Bridge, which still survives today and not its predecessor, which dramatically collapsed some eight years earlier.