Alterating deviations made to eliminate the cable-operated inclines of the original Dundee and Newtyle Railway.
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Ninewells Junction to Baldovan and Downfield. Opened in 1861.
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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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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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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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 and the branch to Fairmuir Goods, both opened in 1861. 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 ...
More detailsBalbeuchly Foot to Auchterhouse [2nd]. Opened 1860.
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 1892, on the south side of the loop.
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This station was on the deviation which allowed the Balbeuchly Incline to close.
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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.
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Hatton [D and NR] to Newtyle Junction. Authorised as the Alyth Junction and Dundee and Newtyle Branch Junction Railway in 1867 and opened 1868.
This was not a true junction, but exists in the Act for the new line which replaced the Hatton Incline approach to Newtyle [1st] from the south.
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This was a two platform station with a passing loop. The loop extended north west to Newtyle Junction. Trains from Dundee West divided here at the station to continue to both Blairgowrie and Alyth.
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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 existing later lines.
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Newtyle Junction to Alyth Junction. Authorised as the Alyth Junction and Dundee and Newtyle Branch Junction Railway in 1867 and opened 1868.
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 existing later lines.
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This was the platform on the flyover from Newtyle Junction for the Alyth Railway at Alyth Junction, see the latter station for details.
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Fairmuir Junction to Maryfield Goods. Opened 1890.
This was the junction between the deviation of the Dundee and Newtyle, built by the Scottish Central Railway and the branch to Fairmuir Goods, both opened in 1861. 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 ...
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