Newtyle Junction Turntable
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Newtyle Junction TurntableOpened on the Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway).
Description
A 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.
At that time, Newtyle Junction did not have a connection between the Coupar Angus and Blairgowrie route and the Alyth Junction and Alyth route, this came later when a signal box opened at the junction in 1881. Instead the division between the lines was at Newtyle [2nd] and the turntable siding (and Newtyle [1st] goods branch) originally led off the alignment to Alyth Junction.
Because train portions from Blairgowrie and Alyth to Dundee West met and divided here locomotives would be terminating here and would need to be turned. And, there was the nearby Newtyle [1st] goods branch.
A locomotive shed was not provided here, there were sheds at Blairgowrie and Alyth.
Tags
Turntable05/03/2023
| Nearby stations Newtyle [2nd] Newtyle [1st] Alyth Junction Meigle Upper Junction Kirkinch Meigle [2nd] Meigle [3rd] Washington [N and CAR] Ardler Auchterhouse [1st] Leason Hill Auchterhouse [2nd] Jordanstone Eassie Coupar Angus | Newtyle Junction Newtyle Incline Newtyle Mill Nethermill Junction Hatton Incline Hatton Engine Burnside Quarry Ardler Junction [Pitnappie Junction] Pitnappie Siding Tourist/other Hatton Castle Camno Crossing Kinpurnie Castle Belmont Castle Nevay Church |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 Dundee and Newtyle Railway Including the Alyth and Blairgowrie Branches (Oakwood Library of Railway History) | Getting around Old Dundee |  Railways of Dundee (Oakwood Library of Railway History) |
