After the Tay Bridge collapsed in 1879, confidence in Bouch dried up and the work stopped. |
Thomas Bouch was approached to be an adviser on the Longsleddale route and if this route had been chosen, in all probabilities Thos. |
Bouch would have been appointed as the civil and railway engineer. |
The locomotive works at Darlington operated independently under Bouch until 1875, the locomotives having been renumbered by the NER a couple of years earlier. |