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.
West Newport Station 1964, with its well tended flower tubs and platform garden.
A clear view of West Newport Station. On the river is the submarine support vessel Vulcan, which dates this to pre-World War I. Behind the station on the left is Balmore and central, Kinbrae House.
Three photographs probably from 1974, showing the fire that destroyed most of what remained of West Newport Station, a few years after its closure in 1969.
Wonderful colour photograph of engine 64547 at Wormit Station.
Steam engine 80123 pulling passenger train through Wormit Station in 1958. Willocks' carpet beating establishment down below on Bay Road.
Newspaper Article from May 2020 recalling the events of May 1955 when a picnic train from Tayport crashed at Wormit Station.
Photograph shows accident at Wormit Station on 17 June 1931. It involved an early morning rush hour train from Tayport, that jumped the points as it entered Wormit Station. There were no serious injuries.
Looking over railway bridge from south, with Tay Bridge South signal box in foreground.
Lovely colour view of Wormit Station and Steam Train on Rail Bridge.
Passengers await the arrival at Wormit Station of the steam train coming over the rail bridge.
Goods train approaching rail bridge from the Wormit sidings.
An extremely spick and span and very empty Wormit station, with just one passenger making his way there.
Passengers ready to board diesel train at Wormit Station as it leaves the tunnel and approaches the platform.
Steam train approaches Wormit over the rail bridge.
A fun reminder of the old Wormit Station sign.
Four photographs taken in 1979 after the station and site had become increasingly derelict since closure in 1969. A year after the photographs were taken the station building was carefully dismantled and rebuilt at Bo'ness where it is part of the Scottish Railway Preservation Society's working steam museum.
After travelling on the last train from Newport the coffin containing the remains of the Newport Railway is launched into the river at Dundee Esplanade for its burial at sea.
An astonishing photograph of the signatures etched into glass of three of the engineers on the first Tay Rail Bridge. They are Albert Grothe (chief engineer), Frederick Reeves and ___ Neuzille. The signatures are still on the window of the house in East Newport where Reeves was staying and they are dated 9 October 1874.
The calm after the storm - the great gap in the centre of the rail bridge where the high girders had been. The caption on photograph seems to be stating the obvious!
Fallen girders in the water after the Tay Bridge disaster. Interesting to note how little building there was in the Wormit area even after the first bridge had been in operation.
Newport School teachers, early 1950s.