These were 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. 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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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 (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 ...
More detailsThis 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 ...
More detailsBalbeuchly 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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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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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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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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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 ...
More detailsA 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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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 ...
More detailsNewtyle 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 ...
More detailsThis 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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