This early railway is closed. The company provided a service between Newtyle [1st] and Glammis [1st] (the Market Muir of Glammiss). The company used the older spelling of Glammiss for Glamis. The name for the company, in the Act of Parliament, is given in section II of the act as 'Newtyle and Glammiss Railway' and was also known as the Newtyle, Eassie and Glammiss Railway.
It was a 4 ft 6.5 in line.
The railway 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, a section of the Strathmore main line.
29/09/1941 | Newtyle 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]. |
These locations are along the line.
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 an interchange station opened in 1848 on the earlier course of the Newtyle and Glammis Railway. It was without road access and was formed between the main line of the Scottish Midland Junction Railway and the old curve which ran uphill to Newtyle [1st]. Initially the curve was a different gauge and there was no physical connection, being operated by the [[Dundee and Perth ...
More detailsThis was a station on the Newtyle and Glammis Railway just north of the village of Kirkinch. The station closed with the re-gauging of the line when it became part of the Scottish Midland Junction Railway main line from Perth to Forfar [2nd].
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A manure siding between Kirkinch and Eassie stations. The original siding was alongside the railway with a loading bank and a second, curving, siding was added to the north. The siding made a trailing connection with the eastbound line.
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This station was located between Newmill and Ingliston farms, to the west of Eassie station. It closed with the re-gauging of the line as part of the Scottish Midland Junction Railway.
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Eassie passenger station was west of a level crossing and was notable for its granary building in the goods yard to the east. It was a two platform station. The main station building, timber, was on the southbound platform with another timber building, a later addition, on the northbound platform by the level crossing. The platforms were linked by a wooden footbridge. It was originally opened in ...
More detailsThis level crossing was just to the east of Eassie station, actually closer to the village and church than the station.
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This was the terminus of the Newtyle and Glammiss Railway at the site of the later Glammis [2nd] station of the Scottish Midland Junction Railway. A connecting coach ran north to Kirriemuir and east to Forfar.
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