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Road Bridge, Davidston, Newtyle

A Category C Listed Building in Newtyle, Angus

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.543 / 56°32'34"N

Longitude: -3.1165 / 3°6'59"W

OS Eastings: 331444

OS Northings: 739556

OS Grid: NO314395

Mapcode National: GBR VG.FL11

Mapcode Global: WH6PR.3S7Y

Plus Code: 9C8RGVVM+5C

Entry Name: Road Bridge, Davidston, Newtyle

Listing Name: Davidston, Road Bridge over Former Dundee and Newtyle Railway

Listing Date: 3 August 2004

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 397607

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB49913

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200397607

Location: Newtyle

County: Angus

Electoral Ward: Kirriemuir and Dean

Parish: Newtyle

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

Circa 1868, contractors Grainger and Grainger, Edinburgh. Single-span, round-headed arch road bridge over deep cutting of former Dundee and Newtyle Railway. Bull-faced squared rubble; rusticated voussoirs and intrados; smooth ashlar impost, parapet base and flat coping with chamfered edges.

Statement of Interest

A good example of railway bridge architecture on 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. Although the Davidstone bridge crosses the original line (the deviation began just to the north), it appears that until the deviation, there was no bridge at this site. While the deviation was being built, the Davidston bridge was also constructed to provide a safer way to cross over the line at this point.

This section of the line was finally closed in 1958.

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