Newport-on-Tay East railway station formerly served the town of Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland. The station closed in 1969. Newport-on-Tay East station...
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Newport. The local war memorial dates from 1920 and was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer. Newport-on-Tay formerly had two railway stations – the East and...
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Newport-on-Tay West railway station served the town of Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland, from 1879 to 1969 on the Newport Railway. The station was opened...
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The Newport Railway was a Scottish railway company that built a line along the south bank of the Firth of Tay in Fife. The line was opened in 1879, and...
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Wormit (category Newport-on-Tay)
Rail Bridge and together with Woodhaven and Newport-on-Tay, Wormit is a part of The Burgh of Newport-on-Tay. The name of the village is thought to be derived...
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Buckinghamshire, a defunct hundred Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire Newport, Caithness, a small hamlet Newport-on-Tay, Fife Newport, Wales, a city and county borough...
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Newport railway station, on the closed Newport Railway in Newport-on-Tay, Fife West Newport railway station, another station in Newport-on-Tay, also on the...
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Tayport railway station served the town of Tayport, Fife, Scotland from 1848 to 1967 on the Newport Railway. The station opened on 17 May 1848 by the Edinburgh...
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The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent European windstorm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British...
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Newburgh railway station Newburn Newmills Newport-on-Tay Newton of Falkland Norman's Law North Queensferry, North Queensferry railway station Oakley Ochil...
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line. The station is the rebuilt Dundee Tay Bridge railway station, which had been built by the North British Railway in 1878 as part of the Tay Rail Bridge...
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Edinburgh–Dundee line (redirect from Tay Coast Line)
The Edinburgh–Dundee line is a railway line linking Edinburgh with Dundee via the Forth Bridge and the Tay Bridge. A branch runs to Perth. Passenger services...
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Scottish railway network. It was absorbed by the larger Caledonian Railway, but when the North British Railway completed the construction of the Tay Bridge...
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Midland Railway. It also linked from Edinburgh to Perth and Dundee, but for many years the journey involved a ferry crossing of the Forth and the Tay. Eventually...
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nearby main line railway. It opened in 1852. When the Tay Rail Bridge opened in 1878 residential travel to Dundee was encouraged. The railway was engineered...
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of Forth and the Firth of Tay, but despite those disadvantages it proved extremely successful. It took over a short railway on the southern shore of the...
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Kirkcaldy railway station is a railway station in the town of Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle...
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Scotland. The station is the last northbound stop before Dundee. The station was built as Leuchars Junction station for the route over the Tay Bridge to Dundee...
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remodelling and extension (1872 to 1882) for William Thomson Ferry Station, Newport-on-Tay (1878) Scottish Banking Company offices, Dundee (1880) YMCA building...
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Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction Company and opened its wooden bridge (replaced by today's Tay Viaduct) crossing the Tay at Perth on 8 March 1849. Having...
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St Fort (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
glasgow.ac.uk. "St Fort | Canmore". canmore.org.uk. "Sandford House near Newport on Tay, from hotel to haven". www.scotsman.com. 2 December 2015. "Sandford...
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nearby. It opened in 1886, and carried tourist traffic for steamers on Loch Tay as well as local business. The directors and the majority of the shareholders...
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Montrose railway station serves the town of Montrose in Angus, Scotland. The station overlooks the Montrose Basin and is situated on the Dundee–Aberdeen...
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the Tay and Forth Bridges and the 19th-century railway wars. Granta Publications. ISBN 9781862079403. John Thomas, The Callander and Oban Railway, David...
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History of Dundee (section Tay Bridge Disaster)
population of around 150,000 people. It is situated on the north bank of the Firth of Tay on the east coast of the Central Lowlands of Scotland. The Dundee...
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converged into a single railway. Effectively a continuation of the North British line over the Tay Bridge, the single-track railway directly connected the...
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the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster it was 75. The worst rail accident in Wales was the 1868 Abergele rail disaster, with 33 dead. The accident on the London...
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the east side of the River Tay and some distance south of Perth (road) Bridge, a significantly inconvenient location. The Scottish Central Railway had...
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shore of the Firth of Tay. As the E&NR was completing its main lines, it changed its name to the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway on 1 April 1849. The...
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Fife (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Inverkeithing Kennoway Newport-on-Tay Buckhaven Anstruther Tayport Leuchars Leslie Kincardine Kinghorn Perth and Kinross Dundee East Lothian City of Edinburgh...
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