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Dundee And Newtyle Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Newtyle Old station east view. A short length of platform protrudes from the train shed.<br><br>[Brian Forbes ../../....]](/images/20000/20609.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![Ex CR Class 3P 54500 passing Rosemill Siding in 1961. This section of line, as far south east as Baldovan, is the original route of the railway. This siding, one of several at Rosemill, existed from at least the 1860s. The house and wall in the background still stand.<br><br>[David Murray-Smith //1961]](/images/63000/63375.jpg "Rosemill Siding")
![SLS Angus Tour, 20th May 1961<br><br>
54500 at Baldovan and Downfield.<br><br>[Jim Currie (Courtesy Stephenson Locomotive Society) 20/05/1961]](/images/39000/39515.jpg "Baldovan and Downfield")
![More than 100 years after closure, Newtyle (Old) station building survives in agricultural use in October 1974. The original Dundee-Newtyle route included three inclined planes which required stationary steam engines to haul the trains uphill. These steep sections were bypassed by three new deviation routes, including the section which led to the closure of Newtyle (Old) and the associated Hatton Incline in 1868.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /10/1974]](/images/29000/29813.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![The Dundee end of the old Newtyle station in 1998 looking north. The Hatton incline is behind the camera.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1998]](/images/42000/42757.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![The Newtyle Chemical Company building to the east of Newtyle station, photographed in 1998 looking south east. The works was rail served via a turnplate siding. Hatton incline was off to right. The structure has since been demolished and houses now stand on the site.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1998]](/images/42000/42980.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![Newtyle Old station. Train shed.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/04/2007]](/images/14000/14289.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![Very little of the first D&NR remains, this is the point that the trackbed turns to the south, downhill. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/05/2007]](/images/15000/15203.jpg "Balbeuchly Top")
![North end of the old station at Newtyle on 12 July 2007, view west. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/07/2007]](/images/16000/16006.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![South end of the original trainshed at Newtyle in July 2007<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/07/2007]](/images/16000/16007.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![North end of the original terminus at Newtyle, July 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/07/2007]](/images/16000/16008.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![East end of the original terminus at Newtyle in January 2008. This building was the first passenger station in the town from 1831 to 1861. After that is was used as a goods depot until the line closed 1955.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/01/2008]](/images/20000/20534.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![This roundel is on the track side of the former station building at <i>Offset at Back of Law</i> / Crossroads in Dundee. Was this a station clock? The station was located to the north of the Law, its inclines and tunnel. Remarkably this station and the terminus at Newtyle still stand - perhaps the oldest station buildings in Scotland. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2010]](/images/28000/28280.jpg "Offset at Back of Law")
![Three vintage bolts found by a householder in a garden to the east side of the former Law Incline (between Dundee Ward Road and the Law Tunnel). Suspected to be screw spikes or track fasteners. They're in not bad shape given line closure in the 1860s. Does anyone know their exact purposes? [Thank you very much for the replies so far. For completeness here are extracts from three replies; <i>'The left hand one is a chair spike, which was used with a wooden treenail to secure early chairs to wooden sleepers. The right hand one is a bullhead fishbolt. Not too sure about the middle one, some kind of spike or fang bolt?'</i> and from another reply <i>'the centre fixing could well be a spike for fastening down track'</i> and a further comment <i>'if the centre spike has an offset head then it is most likely for fixing an early cast flat bottom rail to a wooden sleeper'</i>.]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2010]](/images/30000/30839.jpg "Law Incline")
![This building is often detailed as 'The Original station at Newtyle.' I am inclined to agree that the location of the 'Old' station is on the original site of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway at its northern terminus in Strathmore.<br>
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If it is the original building, it does appear to have been very heavily modified. Some years ago I discovered on-line an illustration of an engraving which depicts the 'Railway Station at Newtyle.' This illustration was included in FORFARSHIRE ILLUSTRATED … a volume which was published by Gershom Cumming in Dundee in 1843. In this engraving the location, railway alignment and adjacent buildings are as we would expect them to be - the adjacent building still exist today. However the station building illustrated in the engraving appears to predate that which we know today suggesting the structure was either remodelled or re-built before the mid 19th century. John R Hume's, The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland : vol 2 [B.T.Batsford, London 1977] quotes the station to have been rebuilt - c 1836. Perhaps the Gershom Cumming engraving shows the terminus in its original state?<br>
The image is to be found here - <a href=http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/90781030 target=external>http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/90781030</a>. [Editor's note - it may have been re-built around the time of conversion to a goods shed, but can anyone shed any further light on this?]<br>
<br><br>[Colin Martin 24/06/2017]](/images/59000/59926.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![The north end of the original Newtyle station showing the platform and building added to the right after conversion for goods. The building's gable end was also modified and offices on the east side demolished. View looks south.<br><br>[Colin Martin 24/06/2017]](/images/60000/60388.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![The western elevation of the original Newtyle station.<br><br>[Colin Martin 24/06/2017]](/images/60000/60756.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![The original Newtyle station trainshed, viewed from the south west.<br><br>[Colin Martin 24/06/2017]](/images/61000/61477.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![The trainshed of the original Newtyle station, viewed from the south, the direction of the original line approaching from [[Dundee Wards Road]]. The building later became a goods shed with the access to the platform inside to the left and tracks to the right.<br><br>[Colin Martin 24/06/2017]](/images/61000/61506.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
![View of the original trainshed at the first Newtyle station seen from the south east. The building once extended to the right.<br><br>[Colin Martin 24/06/2017]](/images/61000/61855.jpg "Newtyle [1st]")
