Archaeology Notes

Event ID 685871

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO24SE 62 29958 41361

Location formerly cited as centred NO 29958 41361.

Not to be confused with Newtyle Station (Caledonian Rly, at NO 2956 4146), for which see NO24SE 99.

Station [NAT]

OS (GIS) ep. 1.

Goods Station [NAT]

OS (GIS) ep. 3.

Depot {NAT]

OS (GIS) AIB, April 2006.

NMRS REFERENCE:

Engineer: Charles Landale 1831.

(Not to be confused with Caledonian Railway Station).

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NO 300 413). Newtyle Old Station, rebuilt c1836 by the Dundee & Newtyle Railway. A large rubble train shed with elliptical-arched entrances. At the north end is a range of single-storey offices, and the stepped circular base of a post crane. Beyond the station to the south can be traced the Hatton incline which carried the railway up the north face of the Sidlaws.

J R Hume 1977.

This northern terminus of the former Dundee and Newtyle Rly was opened (by that company) on 16 December 1831. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 31 August 1868, being replaced by the 'new' station (NO24SE 99) on the construction of a new track formation (the 'deviation' of 1864) to join the former Dundee and Newtyle Rly with the Stirling-Perth-Kinnaber Junction ('Strathmore') main line.

The station evidently remained in use as a goods station, before becoming a depot.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 April 2006.

R V J Butt 1995.