Newport Railway
Introduction
This line is closed.
Dates
| / /1866 | Newport Railway Act receives Royal assent. |
| 12/05/1879 | Newport 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. |
| 12/05/1879 | Edinburgh and Northern Railway Tay Port altered to become a through station on the Newport Railway, afterwards known as Tayport. |
| 13/05/1879 | Newport Railway Newport to Wormit opened. |
| / /1900 | Newport RailwayNorth British Railway Newport Railway absorbed by North British Railway. |
| 28/05/1955 | Newport Railway Excursion train de-railed at Wormit resulting in 3 deaths. |
| 22/05/1966 | Newport Railway Newport-on-Tay East to Tayport closed, replacement bus starts. |
| 23/05/1966 | Newport Railway Newport-on-Tay East to Tayport closed to all traffic. |
| 02/01/1967 | Newport Railway Newport-on-Tay East to Tay Bridge South Junction closed to freight. |
| 18/09/1967 | Newport Railway Newport-on-Tay East to Tayport bus ceases. |
| 18/12/1967 | Newport Railway Newport-on-Tay East to Tayport official closure date (closed early due to Tay Road Bridge works). |
| 05/05/1969 | Newport Railway Newport-on-Tay East to Dundee (Tay Bridge South Junction) closed to passengers. |
| 05/05/1969 | Newport 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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Ewan Crawford //1996
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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John Clark /04/1968
Brian Haslehust 28/12/1968
Brian Forbes 11/06/2008
John Furnevel 10/05/2005
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Gary Straiton 08/08/2018
David Panton 12/09/1960
Ewan Crawford //1996
Brian Forbes /03/2007
