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Several plans have been submitted to re-use the old Dundee and Newtyle Railway buildings but none have materialised.
(Permalink) Dundee and Newtyle Railway Newtyle [1st]  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 d ...  Newtyle [1st]: The Dundee end of the older Newtyle station in 1998 looking north. The approach via the [[Hatton incline]] is behind the camera. |
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The deteriorating state of some of Scotland's oldest railway buildings have forced developers to tweak plans for housing there.
(Permalink) Dundee and Newtyle Railway Newtyle Newtyle [1st] Planning Newtyle [1st]: The Dundee end of the older Newtyle station in 1998 looking north. The approach via the [[Hatton incline]] is behind the camera.  Newtyle [1st]: North end of the original 1831 station at Newtyle in July 2007. View is west from Bulb Farm Road. |
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Ambitious plans were once drawn up to construct a man-made waterway between Dundee and Forfarshire. A canal to link Dundee and Strathmore was mooted in the 1800s but there were geographical obstacles to that and they turned to a railway instead.
(Permalink) Dundee and Newtyle Railway  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 ...  Law Incline: 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'r ... |
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Historic Angus railway sheds are to be transformed into housing after the residential scheme won the go-ahead from Angus planners.
(Permalink) Dundee and Newtyle Railway Newtyle Newtyle [1st] Planning Newtyle [1st]: The Dundee end of the older Newtyle station in 1998 looking north. The approach via the [[Hatton incline]] is behind the camera. Newtyle [1st]: North end of the original 1831 station at Newtyle in July 2007. View is west from Bulb Farm Road.  Newtyle [1st]: 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 stationa ... |
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Heritage chiefs have softened in their opposition to the housing conversion of the oldest original railway station buildings still standing in Scotland.
(Permalink) At risk Dundee and Newtyle Railway Newtyle Old Newtyle [1st]  Newtyle [1st]: Newtyle Old station east view. A short length of platform protrudes from the train shed. Newtyle [1st]: The Dundee end of the older Newtyle station in 1998 looking north. The approach via the [[Hatton incline]] is behind the camera. Newtyle [1st]: 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 stationa ... |
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Plans are back on track to bring an important piece of Tayside railway history back into use as family homes. B-listed sheds at the end of what was the Dundee to Newtyle line are now at the centre of proposals to build six homes in what developers say will be a new micro community in the Angus village.
(Permalink) At risk Dundee and Newtyle Railway Newtyle Old Newtyle [1st] 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 d ... Newtyle [1st]: The Dundee end of the older Newtyle station in 1998 looking north. The approach via the [[Hatton incline]] is behind the camera. Newtyle [1st]: 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 stationa ... |
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Dundee Law boasts a tunnel which was carved though the hill in the early 19th century. Blocked up in the 1980s, there are hopes it might be given an exciting new lease of life, discovers Gayle Ritchie.
(Permalink) Dundee Law Dundee and Newtyle Railway Law Incline Law Tunnel Law Incline: 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'r ... |
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