Diesel Train at East Newport 1960s.
Diesel Train at East Newport 1960s. Two coal merchants' depots clearly visible.
A surprising destination of Montrose on this diesel train at East Newport in 1968. Here East Newport station is looking rather tatty - it's only months before it would close for good in May 1969.
A photograph of the Mars Boys in the Woodhaven workshop supervised by Chief Officer Burn and William Bowman.
This photograph was in a drawer, but the finder had no knowledge of anyone in his family being on the ship. To date the boy has not been identified.
A photograph of Sandy Rankine at Woodhaven Pier, with the Mars in the background, 1926. Sandy's family owned the joinery workshop above the pier (now known as Old Boathouse) and he lived in a cottage right on the Woodhaven bend until the 1990s.
Photographs of the four men who commanded the Mars Ship from 1869 to 1929.
Engine 64577 at East Newport pulling a freight train to Tayport. The house in the centre, Magask, on the corner of Kilgask Street and Gowrie Brae, had a good view of all the activity on the line.
Series of photographs showing East Newport Station site after closure. The station closed in 1969 and houses were built on the site by 1980. These photographs probably date from mid 1970s before final clearance of site. Only the main station building (picture 4) was retained.
A photograph of a gravestone in Forgan Cemetery commemorating three boys who tragically drowned in 1873.
A photograph of one of the several bands organised on the ship.
Photographs of the Mars boys building a rest camp for invalid boys from Dundee.
A photograph of the doctors's inspection of the Mars boys on their arrival at the granary at Elie harbour in 1912.
The Mars boys at Elie enjoying a sing-song with Chief Officer Burns.
A photograph of the tender to the Mars, the Francis Molison, at Woodhaven Pier, with the boys undertaking a series of drills.
Two photographs of the Mars boys participating in outdoor activities at Elie.
A photograph of the Mars boys watching the Mars leaving her berth at Woodhaven on 27 June 1929.
A photograph of the Mars at Inverkeithing breaker's yard before she was broken up.
A photograph of Chief Officer Flynn and the boat crews at Woodhaven, with the Mars in the background.
A photograph of Mars boys in the joinery workshop under the watchful eye of Alexander McDougall, ship's carpenter.
Four photographs showing the last days at East Newport station.
Mourning party on board last train for the funeral of the Dundee-Newport railway. L-R: Kinnear Baxter; Eddie Grimes; Stan Turner; Ian Falconer.
The coffin for the funeral of the Newport railway is brought alongside the last train at East Newport on a suitably dismal wet May evening. It was piped on board, and was then 'buried at sea' from Dundee Esplanade.
The train carrying Windmill Park picnickers ready to leave East Newport Station on its return to Dundee.
