This early railway is closed. The company provided a service between Coupar Angus and Newtyle [1st]. It was a 4 ft 6.5 in line, 5 1/3 miles long.
It became part of the Scottish Midland Junction Railway and the line upgraded and re-gauged. With this it became an important part of the West Coast railways route from London to Aberdeen.
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This was the northern terminus of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway. The terminus building still stands. It is one of the oldest stations in Britain and probably the oldest trainshed in existence.
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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 detailsThis junction was north of Newtyle [1st]. South from the junction the line was joint Newtyle and Glammis Railway and Newtyle and Coupar Angus Railway, the owners of the routes east and west respectively from the junction.
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This was the junction between the Strathmore mainline Perth - Forfar [2nd] - Kinnaber Junction and the curve from the Dundee and Newtyle Railway. This allowed through running from Dundee West to Coupar Angus and Blairgowrie.
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This station was located in Washington, just east of Ardler station and west of Ardler Junction. It was built to serve the planned new railway village which was feud by George Kinloch (senior).
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This level crossing, Ardler West Gates, was immediately north of West Ardler.
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This was a two platform station. There was a level crossing to the east of the station and a goods yard to the west, on the north side of the line and reached by reversal from the northbound (down) line. The station buildings were of Caledonian Railway style typical of the line.
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This was a three platform station. With an island platform on the west side - the outer face being for the Blairgowrie branch and down platform (with canopied building) and up platform (timber building) on the east side (a building which had a single sloping roof was replaced with another slightly further east around the Great War). Both sides of the station had goods loops. Access to the ...
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