This line is closed. Originally a private goods line it was later upgraded with passenger halts. Oddly there was no interchange at the junction (Elliot) for the line.
/05/1854 | Carmyllie Railway Line opened. Initially a private goods railway built by Earl of Dalhousie for slate and paving stones, operated by the Scottish North Eastern Railway (after 1856). |
/ /1855 | Carmyllie Railway Act receives Royal assent, the line becomes a public railway. |
12/03/1864 | Carmyllie Railway Agreement for working the Carmyllie Railway by the Scottish North Eastern Railway. |
19/06/1865 | Carmyllie Railway
Scottish North Eastern Railway Carmyllie Railway absorbed by Scottish North Eastern Railway. |
/ /1873 | Carmyllie Railway Caledonian Railway authorised to improve the line. |
/ /1876 | Carmyllie Railway Proposed alterations abandoned. |
01/02/1880 | Carmyllie Railway Becomes joint Caledonian Railway and North British Railway, when the Dundee and Arbroath Railway becomes the Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway. |
/ /1898 | Carmyllie Railway Light Railway Order - authorisation to make line into a Light Railway. |
01/07/1900 | Carmyllie Railway Opened to passengers following light railway order. Stations at Arbirlot, Cuthlie, Denhead, Carmyllie. |
01/01/1917 | Carmyllie Railway Closed to passengers. |
01/02/1919 | Carmyllie Railway Re-opened to passengers |
02/12/1929 | Carmyllie Railway Carmyllie to Elliot Junction (excluded) closed to passengers. |
25/05/1965 | Carmyllie Railway Carmyllie to Elliot Metal Box Factory Siding (excluded) closed to freight. |
29/07/1984 | Carmyllie Railway Elliot Metal Box Factory Siding to Elliot Junction (excluded) closed. |
These locations are along the line.
This station was located at the junction for the Carmyllie Railway. This was initially a goods and minerals only line, opened 1854, the line opening to passengers in 1900. The junction allowed trains from the Arbroath direction access to the branch.
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On the Carmyllie branch, just after Elliot Junction there was a passing loop (which was enlarged after opening to passengers) and a short siding on the east side, served from the north.
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This factory dispatched cans for Crosse & Blackwell near Peterhead.
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This was a small station with a platform on the east side of a passing loop. There was a siding on the west side, served from the north. At the south end was a level crossing alongside Bank farm.
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This was a single platform station to the east of Cuthlie Farm. The platform was on the east side of the line just south of a level crossing.
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This was a single platform station to the north of a level crossing. The platform was on the north/east side of the line.
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This was a single platform, on the north side of the line, terminus at Redford, north east of Carmyllie. Beyond the station to the north west was a level crossing and beyond that looped and dead end sidings. The line continued on to serve several quarries, the original purpose of the line.
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