TAYPORT WEST(HIGH)

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All photographs by Bill Newman....MØBNN...MMØBNN/p

TAYPORT WEST (HIGH).Tayport is located on the east coast of Scotland in Fife, at the mouth of the River Tay. It is a historic harbour town and the light is 1.25 miles/1Km from the TAY BRIDGE

1820. Active; focal plane 24 m (79 ft); directional light, 1.5 s on, 1.5 s off: showing white over the clear channel, red or green to the sides. 23 m (76 ft) round stone tower with lantern and gallery, painted white. The lighthouse is usually called the "Western Lighthouse" in Tayport.

At approximately 7:15 p.m. on the stormy night of 28 December 1879, the central navigation spans of the Tay bridge collapsed into the Firth of Tay at Dundee, taking with them a train, 6 carriages and 75 people to their fate.

At the time, a gale estimated at Beaufort force10/11 was blowing down the Tay estuary at right angles to the bridge. The collapse of the bridge, only opened 19 months and passed safe by the Board of Trade, sent shock waves through the Victorian engineering profession and general public

LATEST UPDATE 7th. OCTOBER 2007

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