Passengers ready to board diesel train at Wormit Station as it leaves the tunnel and approaches the platform.
Diesel train leaving Wormit station heading for Newport. 1960s.
Diesel train on Tay Rail Bridge c. 1960s. Wormit Station very neat.
Photograph shows the disused and fairly derelict Wormit station being carefully dismantled in 1980. The Scottish Railway Preservation Society had bought it and moved it to Bo'ness where it was rebuilt and is still part of the society’s working steam museum.
This restored document box once held the papers from 1870 relating to Perth's opposition to the building of the original Tay Bridge. The box was rescued from a skip outside the Old Council Chambers in Perth and restored. The papers it contained are in the City Archive.
Framed drawing of Sandy Rankine's joinery workshop in Woodhaven.
A postcard of Riverside road, Wormit, showing the house called Elmbank (now no 14) on the right.
21st August 1873 ".....I entered here nine years ago. My possession would be continued as long as I conducted the business in a satisfactory manner and that I have done. Until recently the business here has barely provided a living. I have greatly improved the garden - planted new bushes and trees. I have also laid ...
He lived with his family at 7 Riverside Road, Wormit and was employed by his uncle, a wholesale fruiterer, in Commercial Street, Dundee. He was apparently an enthusiastic member of the Newport contingent of the Fifeshire Volunteers, and enlisted in 1917, aged 17. He died of severe wounds on 17th April 1918 at Ypres, having been ...
Robert’s father had been a music teacher at Dundee High School, where Robert went to school. He was a keen cricketer, and worked in the offices of Moody Stuart and Robertson, Dundee Chartered Accountants. The family lived at 16 St Fort Road, Woodhaven and subsequently at Youngsdale Place, Newport. He was killed on 15th October 1916 ...
Information on the trains on the first rail bridge, giving details on frequency, destinations and prices.
View from south of first Tay Rail Bridge. Fourteen columns out from this side the column design changes from brick to lattice ironwork. Also note how the Newport line branches off out over the river.
Lovely view of Tay Rail Bridge under construction. In the foreground is the Wormit Foundry, where defective ironwork was produced. There's no sign at the time this photograph was taken of the branch line that would come off the bridge and carry the Newport Railway.
Newspaper cutting from 1986 recalling inter-club football matches on the sandbanks out in the river.
Former Mars boy William Bowman, who became an instructor, with his class proudly displaying some of their work. The workshop behind them, now demolished, site on the space now occupied by Wormit Boating Club boat park. The building with the curved roof beyond is still there
Photographs of the four men who commanded the Mars Ship from 1869 to 1929.
A photograph of the tender to the Mars, the Francis Molison, at Woodhaven Pier, with the boys undertaking a series of drills.
Newspaper account of dramatic and potentially disastrous accident at Wormit station when a furniture lorry toppled from the road down the banking, landing on a train from Tayport. Fortunately the carriage it landed on was empty of passengers.
The damaged train coach after a lorry tumbled on to it at Wormit station from the road above. April 1958.
His family home was at 12 Woodhaven Avenue, Woodhaven, and he was a porter at East Newport Station. Many of his family also worked on the railway. Robert's father was the signalman in the box between Wormit and St Fort, and his brother William was a train driver. He was killed, aged 23, at the Battle ...
His parents’ home was at Cragside, 41 Riverside Road, Wormit. his father was a commission factor. He died of wounds, 15th April 1918, aged 26, and is buried at Aubigny Communal Cemetery, not far from Arras, France. Poppy made by P7, Wormit School
A Grand Bazaar to raise funds for Wormit Bowling Club held in the Kinnaird Hall, Dundee over four days in 1905.
James was the oldest of five children and grew up in Ayr. The family home was at 12 Hillpark Terrace, Wormit. He had been serving an apprenticeship with a dye company in Kilmarnock, but two days before war broke out, he didn’t show up for work. He and a friend had gone to Glasgow and ...
Two photographs at Wormit Boating Club of the club flag and the Norwegian flag both flying at half mast to acknowledge the death of Sandy Rankine on 9 December 2008. Sandy was a great supporter and friend of the boating club, and also, with his father Willie, of the Norwegians based at the pier during ...