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    Sir Thomas Bouch (/ˈbaʊtʃ/; 25 February 1822 – 30 October 1880) was a British railway engineer. He was born in Thursby, near Carlisle, Cumberland, and...
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    Tay Bridge disaster (category Thomas Bouch)
    Dundee passed over it, killing all aboard. The bridge—designed by Sir Thomas Bouch—used lattice girders supported by iron piers, with cast iron columns...
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  • footballer Herbert Bouch (1868–1929), British cricketer Ralph Bouch (1932–2016), American football and wrestling coach Thomas Bouch (1822–1880), British...
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    Tay Bridge (category Thomas Bouch)
    bridge was laid.[citation needed] The bridge was designed by engineer Thomas Bouch, who received a knighthood following the bridge's completion. The bridge...
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  • footbridges by 1817, with the longest spanning a distance of 261 feet (80 m). Thomas Bouch was a railway engineer responsible for designing and constructing relatively...
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    to Bouch around six months later. It had proven difficult to engineer a suspension bridge that was able to carry railway traffic, and Thomas Bouch, engineer...
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    efficiency was key. The company hired the up-and-coming civil engineer Thomas Bouch who argued for a train ferry with a roll-on/roll-off mechanism to maximise...
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    efficiency was key. The company hired the up-and-coming civil engineer Thomas Bouch who argued for a train ferry with an efficient roll-on roll-off mechanism...
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    failed and collapsed into the water. Although he was acting on behalf of Thomas Bouch, the builder of the first railway bridge across the Tay, he performed...
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    with Edinburgh and London to the south. The bridge, designed by Sir Thomas Bouch, officially opened in May 1878. On 28 December 1879 the bridge collapsed...
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