/ /1821 | Elgin Railway Re-aligned again to avoid inclined planes, engineer; Mr Charles Landale (Dundee and Newtyle Railway engineer). |
26/05/1826 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Act receives Royal assent, engineer Charles Landale (previously engineer to the Elgin Railway). |
/02/1827 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Work begins on line. |
/ /1830 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Dundee Harbour tramway extension from Dundee Ward Road authorised. |
16/12/1831 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Line opened. Stationary engines for inclines were provided by Carmichaels. |
/ /1833 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Two locomotives for level sections provided by J&C Carmichael. |
/ /1834 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Locomotive for level sections provided by Stirling & Co (Dundee Foundry). |
/ /1836 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Locomotive for level sections provided by Robert Stephenson. |
/02/1837 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Line extended from Dundee Ward Road station to Dundee Earl Grey Dock in Dundee Harbour. |
/08/1846 | Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee and Newtyle Railway An Act to allow the Dundee and Perth Railway to take a long term lease of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway is passed. The same Act allows for alteration of the crossing of the River Tay in Perth and purchase of land at Barnhill (east side of river). |
14/10/1846 | Dundee and Perth Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Railway The Dundee and Perth Railway takes a 999 year least of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway. |
21/10/1846 | Dundee and Perth Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Railway The Dundee and Perth Railway purchases the Dundee and Newtyle Railway^s harbour line. |
/ /1847 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Authorisation of a deviation at Auchterhouse [1st] given. This incarnation of the deviation was not built. |
/ /1847 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Authorisation of alterations to the line including conversation to standard gauge and easing of curves. |
/08/1848 | Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway The Dundee and Perth Railway, having take a lease of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway in 1846 and entered into a long term operational agreement with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway in 1848, changes its name to the Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway. |
/ /1855 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Cross Roads station closed. |
/ /1857 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Dundee magistrates order the Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway to remove the Dundee and Newtyle Railway's harbour branch which ran as a street tramway between Dundee Ward Road and the Dundee Earl Grey Dock. Negotiations led to the DP&AJR having to promote a deviation (the Lochee Deviation, owned by the DP&AJR) avoiding the Law Incline and removal of the street tramway, replacing it with a locomotive worked line. |
/07/1859 | Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway Act for the Lochee Deviation, Ninewells Junction (on the Dundee and Perth Railway) to Fairmuir (on the Dundee and Newtyle Railway), passed. Dundee Ward Road and the Law Incline were to close and trains terminate at Dundee Union Street (later Dundee West). Also for the deviation from Rosemill to Auchterhouse [2nd] replacing the Balbeuchly Incline. |
/ /1860 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway) Auchterhouse [2nd] deviation opened. This first part of the improvements, the Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway). Dronley and Auchterhouse [2nd] opened. Balbeuchly Top and Auchterhouse [1st] closed. |
08/06/1861 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway) Dundee Ward Road, Law Tunnel and Law Incline closed with the opening of the deviation to Ninewells Junction. |
10/06/1861 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway) Opening of the deviation to Ninewells Junction giving access to Dundee Union Street (later Dundee West). |
/ /1862 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Private Rosemill Halt opened |
/ /1863 | Scottish Central Railway
Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Railway The Scottish Central Railway absorbs the Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway and its lease of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway. The North British Railway is granted running powers over both the Dundee and Perth Railway and Dundee and Newtyle Railway routes. |
/ /1864 | Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee Union Street (later Dundee West) station rebuilt in Italianate style, expanded and reopened. Authorisation to divert Yeaman Shore (not done). Enlargement required due to larger trains, extra traffic arising from increased frequency of services and the diversion of Dundee and Newtyle Railway trains to the station. |
/ /1865 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Approval to replace level crossing at Baldovan with a bridge. |
/ /1867 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway) Dundee and Newtyle Branch Junction Railway (the Forfarshire Works) and Alyth Junction Railway authorised. |
/ /1868 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Deviation of line opened at Rosemill. |
03/08/1868 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway) New line from Newtyle Junction to new platforms at Alyth Junction and line passing north of Alyth Junction to meet the Alyth Railway opened (the Forfarshire Works). |
31/08/1868 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway) Newtyle [2nd] station opened (the Forfarshire Works) and new line running round the west of Newtyle to Pitnappie Junction to the south east. |
/ /1876 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Authorisation of further land purchase to expand Auchterhouse [2nd]. |
/ /1881 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway) Deviation from Ninewells Junction to by Fairmuir Junction opened. Liff, Victoria [Dundee], Lochee stations opened. |
/ /1894 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Agreement to close level crossing at Baldovan. |
/ /1894 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Strathmartine Level Crossing, east of Baldragon station, authorised to be stopped up (not done). |
/ /1904 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Private Rosemill Halt closed. |
/ /1907 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Approval to improve the railway alignment and purchase land at Baldragon. |
01/01/1917 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Lochee West station closed. |
01/01/1923 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Caledonian Railway
Glasgow and South Western Railway
Callander and Oban Railway
Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Highland Railway
Cathcart District Railway
Killin Railway
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Committee
Brechin and Edzell District Railway
Dornoch Light Railway
Wick and Lybster Light Railway Grouped into London, Midland and Scottish Railway. |
10/01/1955 | Newtyle, Eassie and Glammis RailwayDundee and Newtyle Railway Alyth Junction to Dundee West closed to passengers. Newtyle [2nd], Auchterhouse [2nd], Dronley, Baldragon, Baldovan and Downfield, Lochee, Liff closed. |
05/05/1958 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Newtyle Junction (excluded) to Auchterhouse [2nd] (excluded) closed to freight. |
25/01/1965 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Auchterhouse [2nd] to Fairmuir Junction (excluded) closed to freight. |
06/11/1967 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway) Ninewells Junction (excluded) to Fairmuir Junction to Fairmuir Goods and Maryfield Goods closed to freight. |