Editing Thomas Bouch (section)

==Death==
Thomas Bouch bought a country house in [[Moffat]], "his health", already not good, "more rapidly gave way... under the shock and distress of mind" caused by the disaster. However he kept offices in Edinburgh, at 111 George Street, his Edinburgh address being 6 Oxford Terrace, near [[Dean Bridge]].<ref>Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1880</ref>

He died at his house in Moffat on 30 October 1880 a few months after the public inquiry into the disaster finished.<ref name="ICEobit"/><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle= Bouch, Thomas |volume= 06 |last= Boase |first= George Clement |author-link= George Clement Boase |pages= 1-2 |year= |short=1}}</ref> He is buried very close by, in [[Dean Cemetery]]. "In his death", said the journal of the [[Institution of Civil Engineers]], "the profession has to lament one who, though perhaps carrying his works nearer to the margin of safety than many others would have done, displayed boldness, originality and resource in a high degree, and bore a distinguished part in the later development of the railway system".<ref name="ICEobit"/>