Newport Railway

Introduction

This line is closed.




Dates

  /  /1866Newport Railway
Act receives Royal assent.
12/05/1879Newport Railway
Wormit to Tayport via Newport opened. A new short bridge opened from Wormit to meet the Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway) at a junction just offshore. A second signal box was at this junction.
12/05/1879Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Tay Port altered to become a through station on the Newport Railway, afterwards known as Tayport.
13/05/1879Newport Railway
Newport to Wormit opened.
  /  /1900Newport RailwayNorth British Railway
Newport Railway absorbed by North British Railway.
28/05/1955Newport Railway
Excursion train de-railed at Wormit resulting in 3 deaths.
22/05/1966Newport Railway
Newport-on-Tay East to Tayport closed, replacement bus starts.
23/05/1966Newport Railway
Newport-on-Tay East to Tayport closed to all traffic.
02/01/1967Newport Railway
Newport-on-Tay East to Tay Bridge South Junction closed to freight.
18/09/1967Newport Railway
Newport-on-Tay East to Tayport bus ceases.
18/12/1967Newport Railway
Newport-on-Tay East to Tayport official closure date (closed early due to Tay Road Bridge works).
05/05/1969Newport Railway
Newport-on-Tay East to Dundee (Tay Bridge South Junction) closed to passengers.
05/05/1969Newport Railway
Wormit to Newport-on-Tay closed to passengers.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Wormit to Tayport

This junction opened in 1879 when the Newport Railway was opened to meet the 1878 Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway) at the south end of the Tay Bridge [1st]. The southern end of the bridge was modified with the addition of a new girder bridge which met the existing bridge offshore. The junction was entirely offshore.
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See also
Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)


This was a single platform station on the north side of the line. The station building was at the west end. The building was brick built, rectangular with a flat roof. There was no goods yard.
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Remains of the painted station sign alongside the former westbound platform at Newport-on-Tay West in 1996. The 'ORT' can still be made out on the ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
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This was a two platform station with a loop on a single line. The main station building was on the eastbound platform, at its south end. The signal box was half way along the same platform.
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A 2 car Gloucester DMU waits at Newport-on-Tay East to return to Dundee on a sunny day in April 1968. Passenger services over the branch ended on ...
John Clark /04/1968
A Metro-Cammell DMU in wintry weather at Newport-on-Tay East in December 1968. The station had become the terminus for local services from Dundee ...
Brian Haslehust 28/12/1968
The former station at Newport-on-Tay East, (opened as East Newport in 1879) seen in June 2008 looking towards Tayport. The eastbound platform ran ...
Brian Forbes 11/06/2008
A sunny morning in East Station Place, Newport on Tay, in May 2005, showing the converted Newport-on-Tay East Station. View towards Tayport. ...
John Furnevel 10/05/2005
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View from the Bell Rock Hotel, across the level crossing and Tayport station site on 8th August 2018. Broughty Ferry is in the distance.
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Gary Straiton 08/08/2018
Extract from the Scottish Region timetable for winter 1960-61 showing the Tayport and St Andrews lines. Guard Bridge had a peak-hours only ...
David Panton 12/09/1960
In 1996 one solitary building from the railway remained, the brick building off to the right. This has since been demolished. The brick wall, which ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
The housing covers a large goods yard. Centre of pier was where tramp steamers tied up. There was a wagon tip-up which when the door was opened ...
Brian Forbes /03/2007
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