Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dundee and Newtyle Railway

Dundee and Newtyle Railway, a railway in the SW of Forfarshire, from Dundee north-westward to Newtyle. It was originally a single truck line, 10 ½ miles long, formed on an authorised capital of £140,000 in shares and £30,000 in loans, and opened in 1831; was leased in perpetuity, under an act of 1846, to the Dundee and Perth Company, with further authorised capital of £50,000 in shares and £16,606 in loans; underwent alterations and extensions, under both that act and an act of 1859, with still further authorised capital of £70, 000 in preference shares; was again extended and improved, to the aggregate length of 4 ½ miles, under acts of 1862 and 1864, on further authorised capital of £49, 000 in shares and £14, 900 in loans; became amalgamated as part of the Dundee and Perth system with the Scottish Central in 1863; and passed, as part of the Scottish Central system, to the Caledonian in 1865. It originally left Dundee on an inclined plane 800 yards long, with a gradient of 1 yard in 10, and proceeded through a shoulder of Dundee Law in a tunnel 340 yards long; and had a branch for goods traffic, through the streets of Dundee to the terminus of the Dundee and Perth railway; but these features of it have disappeared. A new reach, in lieu of the discarded portions, and measuring 7 ¾ miles in length, was opened in June 1859; and a branch to Lochee, 6 miles in length, was opened in June 1861. It traverses the parishes of Dundee, Liff and Benvie, Mains and Strathmartine, Auchterhouse, and Newtyle; ascends an inclined plane, in the gorge of the Sidlaws, to a summit elevation of 544 feet above sea-level, and descends a second inclined plane, through the Slack of Newtyle, into the valley of Strathmore; connects there, with the North-Eastern section of the Caledonian system, by branches, some of which were originally its own; and communicates, through these, with Coupar-Angus, Meigle, Glamis, and Forfar.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Angus ScoCnty
Place: Dundee

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