10 Swinfen, quoting the Dundee Advertiser, 26 September 1871
11 Grothe, 1878, p. 103
12 Reynolds, M., Engine-Driving Life – Stirring Adventures and Incidents in the Lives of Locomotive Engine-Drivers, 1882. Reprint, Hugh Evelyn, 1968
13 Gren, Andre, The Bridge is Down! Dramatic Eyewitness Accounts of the Tay Bridge Disaster, 28 December 1879, Silver Link Publishing Ltd, 2008
14 Rothery Report
15 Cattanach of North British Railway Study Group
16 This is debateable
17 Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 31 December 1879
18 Nicoll et al., Victims of the Tay Rail Bridge Disaster, 2005
19 Several witnesses gave evidence of what they had seen
20 Rothery Report
21 Prebble, John, The High Girders: The Story of the Tay Bridge Disaster, Book Club Associates, 1975
22 Daily Gazette, Monday 29 December 1879
23 Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 9 January 1880
24 Birmingham Daily Post, Tuesday 30 December 1879
25 North British Railway Study Group Journal, No. 107, December 2009, p. 10
26 Reynolds, M., Engine-Driving Life – Stirring Adventures and Incidents in the Lives of Locomotive Engine-Drivers, 1882. Reprint, Hugh Evelyn, 1968
27 Cameron, NBRSG Journal, No. 107
28 Cameron
29 Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, Thursday 1 January 1880
30 Rodgers, NBRSG Journal, No. 107
31 Prebble, 1975
32 Rothery Report
33 Henry Law’s Report
34 Spencer, Alfred, Life of Harry Watts – Sixty Years Sailor and Diver, Hills & Co., 1911
35 Nicoll et al., 2005
36 Prebble, 1975
37 Ibid.
38 Dundee Courier, Tuesday 13 April 1880
39 Aberdeen Journal, 8 January 1880
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid.
42 Nicoll et al., 2005
43 Glasgow Herald, 9 January 1880
44 Aberdeen Journal, 8 January 1880
45 Nicoll et al., 2005
46 Aberdeen Journal, 8 January 1880
47 Ibid.
48 Nicoll et al., 2005
49 Daily Birmingham Post, 30 December 1879
50 The Times, 30 December 1879; Alnwick Mercury, 3 January 1880; and Birmingham Post, 30 December 1879
51 Nicoll’s research
52 Aberdeen Journal, 31 December 1879
53 Aberdeen Journal, 15 January 1880
54 Dundee Courier, 10 February 1880
55 Ibid.
56 Nicoll et al., 2005
57 Dundee Courier, 10 February 1880
58 The Star, 7 February 1880; Nottingham Evening Post and Dundee Courier, 10 February 1880
59 Aberdeen Journal, 8 January 1880
60 Aberdeen Journal, 8 January 1880
61 Reynolds, M., Engine-Driving Life – Stirring Adventures and Incidents in the Lives of Locomotive Engine-Drivers, 1882. Reprint, Hugh Evelyn, 1968
62 Mitchell’s other two children, D.M. Jr and Andrew, married and raised families of their own. They are buried in Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively
63 Reynolds, 1968
64 Swinfen, 1994
65 Nicoll et al., 2005
66 Staffordshire Sentinel, 8 January 1880
67 Prebble, 1975
68 The Times, 30 December 1879
69 30 December 1879
70 See Tay Bridge Memorial Fund Group site, http://www.taybridgememorial.co.uk
71 Nicoll’s research
72 Scotland’s People website, http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
73 Rothery’s Report
74 Lewis, 2008
75 Rothery’s Report
76 Swinfen, 1994, p. 80
77 The Times, Thursday 15 July 1880
78 About £13,000 today, using an RPI convertor
79 Cattanach, unpublished manuscript
80 Dow, ‘The Tay Bridge Letters’
81 Lewis, p. 170
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