Overview of Tay Road Bridge

Opened by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, on 18th August 1966, the Tay Road Bridge crosses the Tay estuary linking Newport in northeast Fife with the City of Dundee. Designed by William Fairhurst and built at a cost of £6 million by the Muir of Ord-based construction company, Duncan Logan (Contractors) Ltd., the bridge is 2250m (1.4 miles) long and crosses the Tay 10m (32 feet) above water level. A 15.5-m (51-feet) high obelisk at the Fife end of the bridge commemorates Willie Logan (1913-66), director of the construction company, Robert Lyle, former town clerk of Dundee, and five men who died while the bridge was being built.