Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)

Introduction

These were deviations made to eliminate the cable-operated inclines of the original Dundee and Newtyle Railway.






Dates

  /  /1860Dundee 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. Balbeuchley Top and Auchterhouse [1st] closed.
  /  /1861Dundee 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.
08/06/1861Dundee 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.
10/06/1861Dundee 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). Dundee Ward Road closed (Dundee Top of Law probably closed around 1846, Offset at Back of Law and Cross Roads probably closed before 1853/1855, details are unclear).
  /  /1867Dundee 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.
03/08/1868Dundee 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 construction was known as the 'Forfarshire Works'). This replaced the earlier Newtyle and Glammis Railway curve north of Newtyle.
31/08/1868Dundee 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.
  /  /1881Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Newtyle [2nd] to Newtyle Junction doubled.
  /  /1892Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Loops opened at Auchterhouse [2nd] and Rosemill Loop.
01/02/1896Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Camperdown station is renamed Lochee West.
  /04/1898Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Loop opened at Fairmuir Junction on the Newtyle [2nd] route. Loop opened at Liff.
29/09/1941Newtyle and Coupar Angus Railway
Newtyle and Glammiss Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Separation of the Ardler Junction and Alyth Junction routes moved from Newtyle Junction to the north end of Newtyle [2nd], junction and station both remodelled. Newtyle Junction signal box closed and replaced by a ground frame off the Alyth Junction line for access to the goods yard at Newtyle [1st].
  /08/1950Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Siding at Newtyle [2nd] taken out.
15/01/1951Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Alyth Railway
Dundee West to Alyth passenger train withdrawn. Alyth Junction to Newtyle [2nd] essentially closed to passengers until 1952 when Ardler Junction to Newtyle [2nd] is closed and Dundee West to Blairgowrie trains diverted via Alyth Junction.
30/08/1953Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Connection at Ninewells Junction reduced to single line.
10/01/1955Newtyle and Glammis Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Alyth Junction to Dundee West closed to passengers. Newtyle [2nd], Auchterhouse [2nd], Dronley, Baldragon, Baldovan and Downfield, Lochee, Liff closed.
05/05/1958Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Newtyle Junction (excluded) to Auchterhouse [2nd] (excluded) closed to freight. Track remains in place for wagon storage.
  /  /1962Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Dundee and Newtyle Railway

Newtyle Junction (excluded) to Auchterhouse [2nd] (excluded) entirely closed around 1962.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Ninewells to Baldovan

Ninewells Junction to Baldovan and Downfield. Opened in 1861. Much of the line was fairly steep at a 1 in 67 gradient even close to the junction at Ninewells.

This was a double track junction where the 1861 deviation built to replace the Law Incline, Law Tunnel and Dundee Ward Road joined the 1847 Dundee and Perth Railway.
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Dundee and Perth Railway
Near Greystane, and climbing to Liff, is 3P 54500 on a tour to Auchterhouse in 1961. ...
David Murray-Smith //1961
CR 123 approaching Dundee on SLS special train from Glasgow Buchanan St 1961. ...
David Murray-Smith 20/05/1961
A class 27 passes under Riverside Drive between Invergowrie and Dundee in April 1979 with a train from Glasgow Queen Street. ...
John McIntyre 11/04/1979
A class 101 Metro-Cammell 3 car DMU on a Dundee - Perth service in April 1979 is seen looking east from Riverside Drive as it approaches the site of ...
John McIntyre /04/1979
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Initially this was a single platform station built on the north side of the line with a siding to the west, served from the west.
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A tour visits the Newtyle line. Climbing out of Dundee from Ninewells Junction towards Liff is Ex CR Class 3P 54500 with SLS special train in 1961. ...
David Murray-Smith //1961
Ex CR Class 3P 54500 passes the linoleum works just east of Liff station with a SLS special on its way to Auchterhouse. ...
David Murray-Smith //1961
Scottish Rambler no 5 behind 64620 on a photostop at Liff on 9 April 1966 during a visit to Dundee's Maryfield branch. Liff, which had lost its ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 09/04/1966
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This was a single platform station, on the north side of the line. It was on the western edge of Lochee, beside Victoria Cottage, near a series of quarries such as Charleston Quarry, just to the west.
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This was a two platform station with a passing loop. The main station building was on the northbound platform. The building is stone built and striking with an unusual rough hewn arrangement of the courses, seemingly random it is laid out on a grid. The architect was James Gowans. The main station building had a canopy. He also designed Creetown's main building, also opened 1861.
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Remains of Lochee station on the now abandoned line from the former Dundee West station to Alyth Junction (on the Forfar line, closed 1967) and its ...
David Bosher 26/09/2018
Remains of rail bridge across road at Lochee in a suburb of Dundee, on 26th September 2018. ...
David Bosher 26/09/2018
View along trackbed at Lochee, in a suburb of Dundee, towards the site of dismantled bridge across road (see also my photo, image no. 81115), on 26th ...
David Bosher 26/09/2018
Remains of Lochee station in a suburb of Dundee, on 26th September 2018. This station was on the line from the former Dundee West station to Alyth ...
David Bosher 26/09/2018
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This works, also known as the Camperdown Linen Works, this was served by a branch from Lochee station. A listed bridge on a skew crosses Burnside Street/Wellbank Lane.
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This goods yard was to the east of Lochee station. It was on the south side of the line and approached from the west.
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This was the junction between the deviation of the Dundee and Newtyle, built by the Scottish Central Railway (1861) and the branch to Fairmuir Goods (1885). The deviation replaced the original route via the Law Incline and Law Tunnel from Dundee Ward Road with a new route round the west side of the Law via Lochee. A little to the north of the junction the deviation met the ...

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Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway)
View north over the site of Fairmuir Junction which was being used as a steel stockyard in 1996. The Lochee Deviation ran ahead and in the distance it ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
View south from Clepington Road looking towards where Kingsway West Siding diverged to the right from the line south to Lochee. Fairmuir Junction is ...
Ewan Crawford //1998
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This was not a true junction, but exists in the Act for the Lochee deviation. It is where the original course of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway was met by the Lochee deviation which avoided the Law Tunnel and Law Incline. A connection here would probably be used to deliver materials for the latter and to remove materials from the former on closure. The embankment of the original ...

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Dundee and Newtyle Railway





Auchterhouse Deviation

Balbeuchly Foot to Auchterhouse [2nd]. Opened 1860.

This level crossing was between the Balbeuchley Incline (west) and Baldragon station (east). A single track crossed Fallaws Burn road on the level. There was a crossing keeper's hut on the north side of the line, west side of the road.
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Dundee and Newtyle Railway




This loop opened on the Dundee and Newtyle route at the south of the Balbeuchley Incline, near Balbeuchley Foot. It was one of the passing places on the later version of the line There was a signal box, from 1880, on the south side of the line. A loop opened here in 1892.
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This station was on the deviation which allowed the Balbeuchly Incline to close.
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Dronley station platform looking east. The booking office and waiting room were in a simple wooden building. Dronley was on the deviation which ...
Ewan Crawford 08/03/2023
Dronley station looking east. The goods yard was bottom left, the loading bank is by the car park. The passenger station was beyond the road. The road ...
Ewan Crawford 08/03/2023
Remains of the Dronley platform looking west in 1996. ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
Road bridge south east of Dronley station, closer to Dundee. ...
Brian Forbes 27/05/2007
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This was a two platform station with a passing loop on a single track line. The main station building was at the west end of the westbound platform and there was a signal box (1892) midway along the eastbound. The platforms were staggered, the northbound extending further west.
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Ex CR Class 3P 54486 leaving Auchterhouse, returning to Dundee, having taken over the SLS special in 1961. The tour would continue to Kingsmuir. ...
David Murray-Smith //1961
Ex CR Class 3P 54486 arrives at Auchterhouse on SLS special in 1961. A further view of the special drawing into the station, off to the left. ...
David Murray-Smith //1961
Ex CR Class 3P 54486 arrives at Auchterhouse on SLS special in 1961. The station was off to the left. ...
David Murray-Smith //1961
Auchterhouse looking to Newtyle. The rear wall of the signal box is on the right. Unfortunately with infilling the platforms are no longer visible. ...
Ewan Crawford 08/03/2023
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Hatton to Newtyle

Hatton [D and NR] to Newtyle Junction. Authorised as the Alyth Junction and Dundee and Newtyle Branch Junction Railway in 1867, known as the Forfarshire Works, and opened 1868.

This was not a true junction, but was the location where the new Newtyle Deviation met the alignment of the older railway it replaced, the Hatton Incline approach to Newtyle [1st] from the south.
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View down the Newtyle deviation near Pitnappie with the old alignment visible on the hillside to the right (above the ploughed field). ...
Ewan Crawford 03/03/2023
An unexpected surprise just north west of Pitnappie on the Newtyle deviation - a short length of re-laid track in a much tidied up cutting at ...
Ewan Crawford 03/03/2023
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This was a three platform station in the north of Newtyle. It had a passing loop, which opened with the station. Trains from Dundee West divided, or connected, here at the station to continue to both Blairgowrie and Alyth. Initially two parallel single track lines ran north from the station. This was modified in 1881 into an extension of the stations's loop as far as [[Newtyle ...

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Not much remains of Newtyle's second station, the site now being a house, except a short portion of the northbound platform and its bay. This ...
Ewan Crawford 03/03/2023
This is the Newtyle Deviation, running in a deep cutting east of the station. The view looks south with the line curving round from its further west ...
Ewan Crawford 03/03/2023
The Newtyle deviation required some heavy engineering. This deep cutting, crossed by a drainage trough, was south west of Newtyle 2nd station. The ...
Ewan Crawford 03/03/2023
Overbridge on the Newtyle Deviation, west of the village and, by rail, closer to Dundee. ...
Brian Forbes 01/04/2007
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A 40ft turntable was located between the old and new alignments at Newtyle, just south of Newtyle Junction. It was reached via a siding from the old line, approached from the junction. It was installed by the Caledonian Railway when the Newtyle Deviation through Newtyle [2nd] and the Alyth Junction flyover opened in 1868.
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Newtyle Junction turntable, seen from the deviation, in a view looking west in March 2023. ...
Ewan Crawford 03/03/2023
A turntable was located between the old and new alignments south of Newtyle Junction, served by a short siding leading from old line near the ...
Ewan Crawford 03/03/2023
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This junction was north of Newtyle. It was where the northern end of an 1868 deviation through Newtyle [2nd] to avoid the 1831 Hatton Incline met the earlier alignments. Between 1868 and 1881 it was where the western arm, a slightly realigned curve to Ardler Junction for Coupar Angus and Blairgowrie, separated from the eastern arm, a wholly new line to Alyth Junction for ...

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Newtyle and Glammiss Railway
Newtyle and Coupar Angus Railway
Newtyle Junction, looking south. The old station is in the village, towards the top left, with the Hatton Incline running uphill to the top left. The ...
Ewan Crawford 03/03/2023
This was the site of Newtyle Junction in 1996 where, amazingly, ballast was still in place. The line running north from the original Newtyle station ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
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Newtyle to Alyth Junction

Newtyle Junction to Alyth Junction. Authorised as the Alyth Junction and Dundee and Newtyle Branch Junction Railway, known as the Forfarshire Works, in 1867 and opened 1868. There was a flyover of the main line west of Alyth Junction and the deviation met the Alyth Railway east of the station, where it had its own platform.

This junction was north of Newtyle. It was where the northern end of an 1868 deviation through Newtyle [2nd] to avoid the 1831 Hatton Incline met the earlier alignments. Between 1868 and 1881 it was where the western arm, a slightly realigned curve to Ardler Junction for Coupar Angus and Blairgowrie, separated from the eastern arm, a wholly new line to Alyth Junction for ...

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Newtyle and Glammiss Railway
Newtyle and Coupar Angus Railway
Newtyle Junction, looking south. The old station is in the village, towards the top left, with the Hatton Incline running uphill to the top left. The ...
Ewan Crawford 03/03/2023
This was the site of Newtyle Junction in 1996 where, amazingly, ballast was still in place. The line running north from the original Newtyle station ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
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This was one of the busiest stations on the Strathmore main line having main line trains from Perth to Aberdeen, branch trains to Alyth, and Dundee West to Newtyle [2nd] to Alyth trains.
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Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Alyth Railway
Alyth Junction looking east The flyover of the line from Newtyle can be seen to the left of the main line (bottom left to centre top). The flyover has ...
Ewan Crawford 02/05/2023
Alyth Junction looking to Aberdeen in 2023. From right to left: site of main station building, site of westbound platform, very obvious remains of the ...
Ewan Crawford 03/03/2023
This lattice post remains standing to the immediate east of the flyover at Alyth Junction on the southbound side of the line. Traces of black and ...
Ewan Crawford 02/05/2023
This bridge carried the Alyth branch over a minor road a little north of Alyth Junction. It looks like ballast spilling off the bridge was a problem ...
Ewan Crawford 02/05/2023
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