Newport-on-Tay trains had ceased to run beyond Newport-on-Tay East station to Tayport on 22 May 1966 so that the railway line could be breached to build the bridge's southern approach road. The Dundee – Newport ferry also closed promptly later in 1966 on the opening of the Tay Road Bridge. However, the ferry terminal buildings and slipways still survive at the foot of Boat Hill as a boat repair yard. An excavation carried out by Headland Archaeology in the farm of North Straiton near Newport-on-Tay uncovered part of a Bronze Age cremation cemetery and a line of postholes. Five human cremations
Loch Tay Loch Tatha"). The Scottish Crannog Centre, which contains a reconstructed crannog, is located on the south shore of the loch. Loch Tay railway station was on the Killin Railway. It is now closed. In ancient times (in the Iron Age) people lived on defensible, man-made islands on the loch, called crannogs. More than 20 submerged crannogs have been identified in the loch. An example has now been reconstructed on the south side of the loch at the "Scottish Crannog Centre". Loch Tay Loch Tay (Scottish Gaelic, "Loch Tatha") is a freshwater loch in the central highlands of Scotland, in the