Dundee & Newtyle Railway

The Dundee and Newtyle Railway was a Scottish railway opened on 16 December 1831, running 11 miles from Dundee through the Sidlaw Hills to Newtyle in Strathmore. It was the first railway in northern Scotland and an unusual line, its three steep inclines (Law, Balbeuchley and Hatton) were worked by stationary winding engines, with locomotive haulage on the intervening level sections.

The line was originally built to a non-standard 4 ft 6½ in gauge and converted to standard gauge in 1849. It became part of the Scottish Midland Junction Railway in 1846, then the Scottish North Eastern Railway, and finally the Caledonian Railway in 1866. The original Newtyle route closed in 1955 in the post-Beeching contraction.