In fact, trains had ceased to run beyond Newport-on-Tay East station to Tayport on 22 May 1966 so that the railway line could be breached to build the bridge's southern approach road.

[3] The original house was totally remodelled in 1828 by the architect George Smith, in a Jacobean style, and is now a Listed Building.

[4] An excavation carried out by Headland Archaeology[5] in the farm of North Straiton near Newport-on-Tay uncovered part of a Bronze Age cremation cemetery and a line of postholes.

Part of a quern stone and some burnt animal bone suggested that the cremation ceremony also involved preparing food.

It was built in 1977 by the then Fife Regional Council Architectural Department, with Donald George Beaton working as the school's architect.

Public bus routes are the 77 to Dundee, 92 to St Andrews, and the X54 to Edinburgh via Glenrothes (and Ninewells Hospital in the other direction) Newport has been twinned with Zolotarovo, Ukraine since 20 July 2002.

[8] Amenities on and around the High Street include food and drink stores, health and beauty outlets, trades and services, a variety of shops, an art gallery and a sports centre.

[citation needed] Such heavy-weights in the Scottish art scene as John Byrne, Will Maclean and Marian Leven[16] are associated with the area.