A good place to live and work
With a station, Newburgh can fully develop its potential as a better place to live and work. Ecotourism has potential with abundant wildlife found nearby. Other opportunities lie in the arts - dormant waiting for Newburgh to get connected.
Down by the River Tay.. Sitting in Mudrum Park, Newburgh
Businesses are more than just a means to make a profit. They breathe life back into a community. A business may employ local people, it may take on apprentices. If it grows, it can then draw in other businesses too. Workers buy goods and visit local cafes, restaurants and shops.
This can be Newburgh. A self-sustaining town. with the space to grow. The town just asks for support to begin. For Newburgh, the catalyst will be a new rail station, of course.
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And it is a growing town. Up to 330 new properties are being built. There is possibility of more in the middle future. Newburgh's population could pass 3000 in this decade.
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​Why start or move a business to Newburgh when there are other better connected towns nearby? Why come to a town which a poor bus service?
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No radical improvement in bus provision is expected and on that baisis, Newburgh remains stuck. will change Newburgh as a 'go to' business hotspot Newburgh is not an attractive financial proposition without a station.​
But a rail connection will certainly change this.
Evidence shows that places reconnected to rail experience a big upturn in their fortunes, attracting inward investment and people looking to live in nice places with work easy to get to.
again, a net contributor to the Scottish economy. It can to thrive, to become to become a vibrant self-supporting, busy town - one worth visiting and one worth working in.
The first tranche of the planned 330 new homes.
The first tranche of planned new housing is nearing completion. 40 units reserved as social housing have been built beside the main road on the eastern edge of the town. Up to 320 units will will eventually be built adding up to 1000 more people to the town's population of just over 2000.
Newburgh is slowly becoming a small town.
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More housing is likely. The town is a certainly a nice place to live. A station will make it look more attractive still. Being connected make it reach a a pleasant and healthy place to live.
A increasing population generpeople comes commercial opportunity. There is talk of another retail outlet opening soon to serve the increasing population. A recently closed pub is currently being refurbished and will reopen as a restaurant. More business supporting increasing population is inevitable.
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Newburgh with a train station can many attract other businesses. Cycling is a popular pursuit. Many cyclists pass through the town on popular routes across Perthshire and Fife. There is interest in developing business supporting cycling.
The Abbey Inn - to reopen
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Ospreys nesting near Abernethy
Newburgh is located in beautiful North East Fife beside the River Tay. There are great walks, cycle paths and abundant wildlife.
The town itself is attractive, with interesting architecture and a quirky, interesting history. It really have all the elements needed to create a thriving tourist industry. A sustainable one too.
But, as things stand, any new tourism business, especially ecotourism, would be compromised by having most visitors coming by car - into a town with insufficient car parking space. Not enough visitors will come by bus.
A train station would be the catalyst for change. Easy connections make a day trip an easy thing to do. Edinburgh by train would be just over an hour away. Arrivals by car will be the reality for a while, but unlike
the bus, a train servicewould attract more visitors to Newburgh. One day a town with a train station, An Active Travel Path and maybe a river taxi too!
The Oddfellow Society on the January march .
Representatives from the rail industry, local government, NGOs, tourism and the Newburgh Train campaign attended a workshop to generate ideas for what Newburgh might become were the station to reopen. The consensus suggested Newburgh can see a renaissance in its economic fortunes and quality of life.
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