This pioneering railway remains open today. The line runs from Dundee to Arbroath. The line was built to a gauge of 5ft 6in which led to closure for re-gauging, once standard gauge become common. It originally employed right hand working. Today it forms part of the main line from Dundee to Aberdeen carrying both local and long distance trains. The west end, the approach from Craigie into Dundee, was built by another company, the Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway. It became a joint Caledonian Railway and North British Railway line in 1880 after the opening of the Tay Bridge [1st].
These locations are along the line.
Craigie was a temporary terminus consisting of a platform erected by the Broughty Ferry Road level crossing near Craigie House. The house was to the north.
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This was a two platform station to the west of Broughty Ferry. The main building, of two storeys, was at the west end of the westbound platform and there was a waiting shelter on the eastbound platform.
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This is a two platform station with a level crossing at the east end and a large station building at the east end of the westbound platform. The former signal box has been reassembled, after a period of storage, on the westbound platform.
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More detailsThis was a train ferry station. From here passengers, goods and freight travelled by train ferry to Tayport.
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To the west were lines to (from north to south):
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This is a minimal modern station of two platforms between Broughty Ferry and Monifieth.
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This is a two platform station. It has a lattice girder footbridge (C listed). An early station building, now a house, is on the eastbound platform. It is a single storey building with some Tudor styling, plain but with a finial over a gable facing the trackbed. Originally the building backed onto a goods shed before enlargement of the goods yard around 1900.
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This station was opened to serve the military Barry Buddon Training Camp, which dates from around 1850.
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This is a two platform station. It is west of Carnoustie. It has gained some notoriety due to the very low number of passengers using the station annually.
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This signal box was between Barry Links (to the west) and Golf Street (a little to the east) stations. It controlled access to three works on the north side of the line which were, from west to east:
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A relatively modern small station with two timber platforms and a footbridge to the west of Carnoustie. The southbound platform opened in 1960 and the northbound in 1961.
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This station was replaced in 1900 with the present Carnoustie station. The site of the first station was then given over entirely to the goods yard for the new station.
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This signal box was between Carnoustie (to the west) and Easthaven (to the east). The box was on the south side of the line alongside a trailing crossover and siding making a trailing connection to the eastbound line. This sidings served the Panbride Bleachfield which had further sidings accessed by turnplates.
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This is a two platform station on the east side of a level crossing. In 1900 it replaced an older station, on the same cramped site, the ticket office of which was to the west of the level crossing Carnoustie [1st] (see this link for notes about the older station location). To the west is a signal box, dating from 1898. This is on the south side of the line and just west of the level ...
More detailsThis signal box was between Carnoustie (to the west) and Easthaven (to the east). The box was on the south side of the line alongside a trailing crossover and siding making a trailing connection to the eastbound line. This sidings served the Panbride Bleachfield which had further sidings accessed by turnplates.
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More detailsThis was a small two platform station. The main station building was on the eastbound platform.
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More detailsThis 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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This station was located to the west of the harbour in Arbroath. A tramway connected with the harbour line of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway just to the east in the harbour. The tramway was not suitable for upgrade to a railway and a new Arbroath station (then Arbroath Joint) was opened on a connecting railway built by the Dundee and Arbroath Railway and Lady Loan closed.
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