Key that opened the gates of the level crossing at East Newport station.
A 2nd class single ticket from East Newport station to Dundee. The fare was 10d - 10 old pence, the equivalent of 4p today! It is dated on the back 3 May 1969, so the actual day when the Newport railway closed. Whether this was used on the last train, we'll never know.
East Newport rail tickets from 1965, and a luggage ticket from West Newport.
East Newport Signal Box at the far end of the station. Photograph from 1968 not long before closure in 1969. Only single track remaining as no need by then for access to Tayport or for sidings access to the goods yard which had been behind the signal box.
Two drawings of of East Newport station by Keith Robson, drawn in 1986. The first one shows the station as it would have looked around 1900. The second one shows the footbridge which was erected in 1902.
View looking east through East Newport station. The drawing was done by Keith Robson in 1987.
The west-bound platform at Newport East station, probably in the late 1960s as closure approached in 1969.
A wet and dismal day at East Newport. This photograph is from November 1965. The wooden steps are ready at the edge of the platform for the arrival of the next train. In 1952 there were 22 trains each way each day on the line. In the background can be seen the canopies of the ...
Goods wagons in an otherwise deserted 1960s evening view of East Newport Station. The raised signal on the right indicates that the line to Tayport is clear, and smoke from the ferry B L Nairn drifts over the river.
A more unusual view of East Newport station in these two photographs taken from Linden Avenue.
East Newport station platform sign, with house in Norwood behind. The ground between the station and Norwood was at one time used for allotments.
Three photographs showing the East Newport station sign from the station signal box, a view of the signal box with the sign visible, and two of the smaller station signs, or totems, for East and West stations.
Edna Campbell's Junior Showtime Dance School, July 1969
Newscutting on the 50th anniversary of the ending of the Tayport rail service. From Sunday 22 May 1966 rail traffic would terminate at East Newport station to allow construction of the dual carriageway to the new road bridge.
Framed acknowledgement of ending of over 100 years of outdoor curling on Tayfield land. Presented to the Berry family in 1977.
Ex-Guiders celebrating 50 years of Guiding in Newport. 1973.
Ex-Guides and Guiders gathered to celebrate 50 years of Guiding in Newport. 1973.
Ex-Guiders celebrating 60 years of Guiding in Newport. 1983.
"Farewell to the Fifie" - a poem by John Duncan of Kirkcaldy. We have another of his poems expressing his fondness for his dear old home town.
A newscutting from August 1966 describing a dinner held in the Brig 0' Tay to celebrate the Fifies, and to bid them farewell. This song, Farewell to the Fifies, was written by Mrs May Gilruth and performed by Ron Caird.
Newscutting reporting a fashion show held in the Blyth Hall in February 1964. The show was organised by the local branch of the Unionist and Liberal Association, and followed on from a coffee morning held that morning. Emily Stewart's shop in Broughty Ferry provided the extremely fashionable and elegant garments.
The ferry pier buildings after closure in 1966.
News article from 2006 reporting the gifting to Dundee of a model of the ferry Scotscraig, the last Fifie on the crossing between Dundee and Newport.
An evening crossing by the Fifie, quite probably the B L Nairn.
