The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, credited to William McGonagall, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox's weekly poetry project for the week of March 26, 2006: The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, by William McGonagall. LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, by William McGonagall, to celebrate April Fool's Day. Scottish poet William McGonagall is widely considered to be one of the worst poets of the English language. He wrote this poem in honor of The Tay Rail Bridge which was opened in 1878 and which subsequently collapsed a year later, causing the death of 75 train passengers, and inspiring McGonagall to write yet famously bad poem entitled The Tay Bridge Disaster. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 26, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman) For information about our readers, see our catalog page: http://librivox.org/the-railway-bridge-of-the-silvery-tay-by-william-mcgonagall/ For more free audiobooks, or to find out how you can volunteer, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay
• Author credits: William McGonagall
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 26:24

Catalogue topics

• poetry

Track guide

1. The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay - Read by APC — 3:06
2. The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay - Read by DJBS — 2:41
3. The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay - Read by KS — 2:40
4. The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay - Read by LF — 3:47
5. The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay - Read by MAC — 2:25
6. The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay - Read by MD — 3:08
7. The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay - Read by MS — 2:51
8. The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay - Read by PE — 2:41
9. The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay - Read by SJS — 3:08

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