Description

Circa 1868. Single-span, segmental-arch, skew-plan bridge carrying former Dundee and Newtyle Railway over road. Curved wing walls, Bull-faced aquared rubble, rusticated ashlar voussoirs and intrados, smooth ashlar impost, parapet base and coping.

Statement of Interest

A good example of railway bridge architecture on a deviation of Scotland's first passenger railway.

The Dundee and Newtyle Railway Act received Royal Assent in 1826, and work began on the line in 1827; the line opened in 1831. The line originally ran between Ward Road in Dundee and the village of Newtyle. It was unusual in that it incorporated 3 inclined planes that required stationary engines to pull the trains uphill; these were known as the Law Incline, the Balbuechly Incline and the Hatton Incline. The Hatton Incline was situated just to the SE of Newtyle.

In 1867 the Newtyle Deviation Act was passed, allowing for a deviation to the line to avoid the Hatton Incline, and enabling the line to be used by locomotive engines throughout. It was as part of the deviation that the East Kinpurnie bridge was built to carry the railway over the road below.

This section of the line was finally closed in 1958.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77780746

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