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On this day in 1878, 148 years ago, the original Tay Bridge - the longest in the world at that time - opened for passenger traffic following the previous day's formal ceremonies.

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Frosts snaps at a surviving cable post on Horbury West Curve.

Consumed by moss, part of the winding mechanism awaits ministration at the foot of Middleton incline.

The rotting remains of a wagon, arrested by the catchpit towards the bottom of Sheep Pasture incline.

A gradient indicator rests in the grass alongside a disused railway at Lugton, south-west Scotland.

Apart from the platform, this rusting relic is the only survivor of Coanwood Station on the Alston branch.

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Frosts snaps at a surviving cable post on Horbury West Curve.

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March 2009

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Forgotten Relics records and celebrates the UK's disused railway structures, still standing as monuments to the period of ambition, courage and endeavour during which they were built.

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