The grid street plan of the central part of the village was laid out shortly after the railway opened and was intended to form the basis for a manufacturing centre which could take advantage of the communications link to Dundee.

[3] Rail services to and from Newtyle were in decline for a number of years before the line was closed in the 1960s under the Beeching Axe.

[4] Most of the railway buildings have since been demolished but the embankments and cuttings remain a prominent feature of the countryside surrounding the village.

Local government boundary changes have seen different generations of Newtyle pupils receive their secondary education at Forfar Academy, Harris Academy in Dundee, Monifieth High School and latterly at Webster's High School in Kirriemuir.

James Robertson, the novelist, together with his wife, lives in converted villa that was once a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Newtyle.