The Way We Were: The River Ness Rail Bridge 1987

            Scotrail Class 37/4 No. 37421 crosses the doomed River Ness bridge on 16th September 1987 while forming the 1725 Inverness - Wick & Thurso service. Less then eighteen months later, at 8.10am on 7th February 1989, the bridge collapsed under the weight of flood water in the fast flowing river. The central arch was the first to go, followed in succession by the two adjoining arches.  Two passenger trains and a freight train had passed over the structure a short while earlier. The cause was local scouring of the pier foundations. The new replacement bridge was opened on 9 May 1990. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
   

Taken in: UK / Scotland / Highland (show map)

Taken on: September 16, 1987

Tags:

37421

Class37/4

ScotRail

Inverness

River-Ness-Bridge

Ness-Bridge-Collapse

Far-North-Services

1987 « less

Sets appears in: • September • Class 37 more » • Trains in Scotland • The Way We Were • 1987 « less

Groups appears in: • Railway Photographers • National Geographic | World Wide more » • UK Railway Landscapes • British Railways (1948 to 1995) • Flickr Worldwide - No Limit! • Train's on Bridges • A BRIDGES 2 • A TARTAN COUNTRY. • flickrailroad • 37421 - 37267 - D6967 « less

Stats: 1,522 views / 2 comments

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder