Newport-on-Tay East railway station

Newport-on-Tay East station was opened by North British Railway on 13 May 1879[1] with a branch line from the southern end of the Tay Bridge which was later extended to Tayport.

The line was single track but with passing places at Wormit station and the second was at Newport-on-Tay East.

At harvest time, tractors loaded with beet would drive in and tip the contents of their trailers into railway waggons parked on this spur.

The station layout shown on the 1914 Ordnance Survey map [1] remained practically unchanged till it closed.

Later the steam trains were replaced by diesel multiple units, probably British Rail Class 101.