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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent storm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway (NBR)...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • and completely in 1964. The Newport Railway opened its short line in 1879, running from the Fife end of the newly opened Tay Rail Bridge. The short line...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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 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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    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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  • Perth Railway was a Scottish railway company. It opened its line in 1847 from Dundee to a temporary station at Barnhill and extended to Perth station in...
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  • 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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  • 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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