In a very real way, the railway brought Newtyle into being.
In a historical perspective drawn from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, edited by Francis H. Groome and originally published in parts by Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh between 1882 and 1885 it says:-
Newtyle, a village and a parish of SW Forfarshire.
The village, standing on a north-westward slope, 250 feet above sea-level, has a station on the Newtyle and Blairgowrie railway, 1 ¼ mile SSE of Alyth Junction, and 16 ¾ miles (by road 11) NW of Dundee.
Founded in 1832 in connection with the projected railway, it had assigned for its site an arable field of 15 acres, belonging to Lord Wharncliffe, and was aligned on a regular plan, in building lots, on 99 years' lease.
It offers a neat and cleanly appearance, and has a post office under Coupar-Angus, with money order, savings' bank, and railway telegraph departments, a branch of the Commercial Bank, gas-works, a police station (1870), a public library, a curling club, an artificial manure factory, a Free church, and the parish church. The last is a handsome Gothic edifice, erected in 1872 on the site of its predecessor at a cost of £3000. It contains 560 sittings, and has a tower 85 feet high, with a two-dial clock. A U.P. church of 1835 towards the close of 1883 was converted into the Wharncliffe Public Hall, under the management of trustees.
Population of village (1841) 505, (1861) 619, (1871) 542
In an account edited from The New Statistical Account of Scotland, Angus, 1843 it says:-
"The parish is bounded on the east by Tealing, on the south-east by Mains & Strathmartine, on the south by Liff, on the west by Lundie & Fowlis, on the north-west by Newtyle and on the north by Glamis. It is triangular in shape and exposed to the south. It has an area of about 8.5 square miles, with 3567 acres cultivated, 1406 under wood and 475 in hill pasture. Easy access to the market town of Dundee may be obtained either by the Dundee - Newtyle turnpike road or by the Dundee - Newtyle railway. The railway affords conveyance for 2500 tons of goods and 3000 passengers annually."
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Oct 2005