This line is open. This line runs along the north bank of the River Tay through an area of farmed Countryside.
After renting the Dundee and Newtyle Railway and the Dundee and Arbroath Railway the company became the Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway.
31/07/1845 | Dundee and Perth Railway Act receives Royal assent. (Locomotives are prohibited from the projected Dundee Harbour branch.) |
31/07/1845 | Edinburgh and Northern Railway Act receives Royal assent. Mainline from Burntisland to Perth via Ladybank. Branches from Ladybank to Cupar and Kirkcaldy to the harbour. The Perth station was to be beside the Dundee and Perth Railway station. |
/ /1846 | Dundee and Perth Railway Deviation authorised between Inchyra and Kinfauns. |
/ /1846 | Scottish Central Railway
Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Dundee and Perth Railway
Edinburgh and Northern Railway Agreement and authorisation that Perth General station be owned by Scottish Central Railway, Scottish Midland Junction Railway, Dundee and Perth Railway and Edinburgh and Northern Railway jointly. |
/08/1846 | Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee and Newtyle Railway An Act to allow the Dundee and Perth Railway to take a long term lease of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway is passed. The same Act allows for alteration of the crossing of the River Tay in Perth and purchase of land at Barnhill (east side of river). |
14/10/1846 | Dundee and Perth Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Railway The Dundee and Perth Railway takes a 999 year least of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway. |
21/10/1846 | Dundee and Perth Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Railway The Dundee and Perth Railway purchases the Dundee and Newtyle Railway's harbour line. |
/ /1847 | Dundee and Perth Railway Further Act authorising change of alignment at Perth. The line will now meet the Scottish Central Railway south of Perth station at Dundee and Perth Junction (St Leonards Bridge Junction). Trains from Dundee will reverse into Perth station. |
/ /1847 | Dundee and Perth Railway Branches to Inchture Village and North Inchmichael authorised. |
/ /1847 | Dundee and Perth Railway Polgavie Branch authorised. This branch was not built. Polgavie is possibly today's Powgavie where Inchture station is located. |
24/05/1847 | Dundee and Perth Railway Line opened from Dundee Union Street (later Dundee West) to Barnhill [DPR], on the east bank of the River Tay near Perth. |
/ /1848 | Dundee and Perth Railway
Dundee and Arbroath Railway The Dundee and Perth Railway is given permission by parliament to lease the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. (Not done at this time.) |
/ /1848 | Dundee and Perth Railway Inchture Village branch opened. |
/ /1848 | Dundee and Perth Railway
Dundee and Arbroath Railway Dundee Junction line authorised to link the Dundee and Perth Railway to the Dundee and Arbroath Railway (Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway). (Not built.) |
/08/1848 | Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway The Dundee and Perth Railway, having take a lease of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway in 1846 and entered into a long term operational agreement with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway in 1848, changes its name to the Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway. |
01/03/1849 | Dundee and Perth Railway Line extended from Perth [Barnhill] over the River Tay via the Tay Viaduct [Perth] to Perth Princes Street. |
/05/1849 | Dundee and Perth Railway After this date the line was extended from Perth Princes Street to Dundee and Perth Junction south of Perth General on the Scottish Central Railway which was reached by reversal. |
02/10/1849 | Newtyle and Glammis Railway Last portion of original line closed by the operator, the Dundee and Perth Railway, between Newtyle [1st] and Meigle Upper Junction, an interchange station near Eassie, where there was a break of gauge. (The Newtyle and Coupar Angus Railway was already completely closed by this date.) Re-opened shortly afterwards having been converted to Standard Gauge. |
/ /1851 | Dundee and Perth Railway
Dundee and Arbroath Railway Proposed Dundee Junction line to link the Dundee and Perth Railway to the Dundee and Arbroath Railway (Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway) abandoned. |
/ /1859 | Scottish Central Railway
Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Dundee and Perth Railway
Edinburgh and Northern Railway Limits of Perth General station defined by the joint committee, repealing the agreement of 1846. The Scottish North Eastern Railway is authorised to use Perth General and to form a siding on the east side of the station. |
/07/1859 | Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway Act for the Lochee Deviation, Ninewells Junction (on the Dundee and Perth Railway) to Fairmuir (on the Dundee and Newtyle Railway), passed. Dundee Ward Road and the Law Incline were to close and trains terminate at Dundee Union Street (later Dundee West). Also for the deviation from Rosemill Loop to Auchterhouse [2nd] replacing the Balbeuchley Incline. |
/ /1860 | Scottish Central Railway
Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Dundee and Perth Railway
Edinburgh and Northern Railway Rights of access to Perth General of the companies agreed . |
/ /1863 | Scottish Central Railway
Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Railway The Scottish Central Railway absorbs the Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway and its lease of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway. The North British Railway is granted running powers over both the Dundee and Perth Railway and Dundee and Newtyle Railway routes. |
/ /1864 | Dundee and Perth Railway Ninewells Junction [Station] opened. |
/ /1864 | Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee Union Street (later Dundee West) station rebuilt in Italianate style, expanded and reopened. Authorisation to divert Yeaman Shore (not done). Enlargement required due to larger trains, extra traffic arising from increased frequency of services and the diversion of Dundee and Newtyle Railway trains to the station. |
/10/1865 | Dundee and Perth Railway Ninewells Junction [Station] closed. |
/ /1866 | Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee Union Street renamed Dundee West. |
/ /1870 | Caledonian Railway Caledonian Railway gains running powers over the Dundee Harbour Trustees lines between Buckingham Junction (Dundee and Perth Railway) and Camperdown Junction (Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway). |
/ /1878 | Dundee and Perth Railway Authorisation to expand and rebuild Dundee West station. The Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway) opened in 1878 and the Caledonian Railway was facing competition from the North British Railway's new Dundee Tay Bridge [Station]. |
/ /1885 | Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee West Shed opened replacing Seabraes Shed and works. The new shed was west of Dundee West Mineral Yard, further west than the older shed. Approach was from a reversing spur to the east of the shed. |
/ /1886 | Dundee and Perth Railway Agreement between the Caledonian Railway and Perth Town Council regarding the swinging portion of the Tay Viaduct [Perth]. |
/ /1889 | Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee West station rebuilt with superb baronial building at entrance and large glass canopy covering the platforms behind. Station rebuilt with growing competition from the North British Railway's Dundee Tay Bridge [Station], to the south, following the opening of the second Tay Bridge. |
03/10/1901 | Dundee and Perth Railway Permission to purchase land to widen line between Ninewells Junction and Magdalen Green. |
/ /1902 | Dundee and Perth Railway Agreement between Dundee Town council and Caledonian Railway to allow widening the line between Ninewells Junction and Magdalen Green confirmed. |
/ /1915 | Dundee and Perth Railway Widening of line at Ninewells Junction - agreement with Dundee Corporation confirmed. |
/ /1952 | Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee West Shed becomes a sub shed of Dundee Tay Bridge Shed. |
11/06/1956 | Dundee and Perth Railway Magdalen Green closed. |
/ /1960 | Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee West Shed closed. |
28/09/1960 | Dundee and Perth Railway Errol closed to passengers. |
03/05/1965 | Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee West to Buckingham Junction closed to passengers. With both Dundee West and Dundee Tay Bridge [Station] having lost services the latter was able to take on the traffic of the former. Dundee West Goods remains open and Tay Bridge Goods closed (although much remains open as sidings). |
/ /1966 | Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee West demolished to make way for an approach road to the Tay Road Bridge. |
These locations are along the line.
This was a large terminus station on Union Street in Dundee for services west to Perth, Glasgow, Edinburgh, England and, later, north via Newtyle [2nd].
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This goods depot was directly north of the present Dundee station, which belong to the competing North British Railway. Dundee West was the Caledonian Railway station and was to its immediate north until its closure in 1965. The goods yard was approached from the west, from the line from Perth.
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This works consisted of an engine shed, joiners shop, engine shed and smithy. It was on a triangular piece of land on the south side of Perth Road and its junction with Airlie Place. Turntables connected the different parts of the works, in particular splitting the lines which ran into the engine shed (five roads). Approach was from the south, a curving line which crossed the mudflats (later ...
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More detailsThis shed replaced Seabraes Shed in 1885. It was built at the far west of the Dundee West Goods yard.
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This was the junction between the Dundee and Perth Railway's approach to Dundee West and a short spur from the Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)'s Dundee Central Junction. It was paid for by the North British Railway[ but staffed by, and in the style of, the Caledonian Railway. The connection allowed trains from the Perth direction to enter [[Tay ...
More detailsThis was a two platform station with the main station building on the eastbound platform. There was no goods yard. There was a signal box until 1925. The station closed in 1956.
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Dundee's waterfront from Invergowrie Bay east to Stannergate is built on land reclaimed from the sea. The Esplanade, the land between Ninewells and Craig Pier, was recovered by the town and railway companies and the southern portion was to become a pleasant parkland by the sea, a process which had began when the Dundee and Perth Railway ran across the beach at Seabraes and Yeaman Shore ...
More detailsThis short lived station was to the immediate east of Ninewells Junction itself.
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This was a double track junction where the 1861 deviation built to replace the Law Incline, Law Tunnel and Dundee Ward Road joined the 1847 Dundee and Perth Railway.
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This is a two platform station. There was a single storey main station building at the east end of the eastbound platform.
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This quarry produced stone for Castle Huntly and docks in London. The quarry is flooded. The Dundee and Perth Railway crossed it by a girder viaduct (6 spans?) which was converted into an embankment in 1973 with infill on both sides of, and underneath, the line.
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More detailsThis was a two platform station with the main station building on the eastbound platform and waiting rooms on each platform. Longforgan itself is a mile to the north.
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More detailsThis was a two platform station. The station building, on the eastbound platform, still stands in use as a house. The building is of a style typical of the line such as that at Errol.
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This was the passenger terminus of a tramway line built out northwards from Inchture station. The terminus building, a row of houses built in a style similar to the station building on the Dundee and Perth Railway had a garage for the tram at its west end, where a large wooden panel covers the doorway. Inchture Village itself is to the north east. The terminus is a mile and a half north of ...
More detailsThis signal box was on the north side of the line east of the Grange level crossing. There was a trailing crossover and siding, north side, serving a loading bank. The box closed in 1966, replaced by automatic barriers. The level crossing still exists.
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More detailsThis was a two platform station which closed in 1985 and remains largely intact. The platforms remain. The main station building, a ground floor with attic and short platform canopy, is on the eastbound platform, marked 1847. A waiting shelter remains on the westbound. The lattice footbridge also remains, with the timber footway removed for safety.
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This goods station was on the south side of the line and served from the west. A siding running south served the Errol Brick and Tile Works.
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This tile works was owned by the Pitfour Brick & Tile Co. Pitfour Clay Pit was alongside to the north east. The railway connection was from Glencarse, to the north west, via a reversing spur.
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This was a two platform station just south of Glencarse village. To the west is Inchyra House, to the north Glencarse House and to the south Pitfour Castle.
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More detailsThis was a two platform station. There was a single storey station building.
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Today this is a signal box location. This was a short lived terminus of the line from Dundee West. It was the first railway station in Perth, albeit across the river from the town. The railway is still open. It is located on a slope and was constrained between Barnhill House, on the east side, and the River Tay, to the west. The house (see its entry) was bought by the railway company and ...
More detailsThis set of sidings was on the west side of the line at the east end of the Tay Viaduct [Perth].
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A single track metal girder single track viaduct which, in 1863/64, replaced an earlier double track timber viaduct which had 25 arches and an iron swing bridge. The original bridge was 444 yds long.
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This was a two platform station at the west end of the Tay Viaduct [Perth] and a short distance east of Perth station. The station is in the south east of Perth, north of the South Inch and west of the River Tay. It is named for the road passed over by the railway immediately to the west of the former station.
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More detailsThe Dundee Dock opened in 1862 at right angles to the main Perth station in the southern part of the station's carriage turning area on the east side of the station. Prior to this the awkward arrangement was that trains from Dundee West reversed south of Perth to reach the station.
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This is a superb major station with a tudor styled building by William Tite and large glazed trainshed situated on the western edge of the Perth town centre. To the south lines from Glasgow Queen Street High Level and Edinburgh Waverley meet at Hilton Junction and in the station lines north to Inverness and north east to Dundee and Aberdeen divide. Today it is an eight ...
More detailsThis was a large signal box to the south of Perth station and the St Leonard's overbridge. The box controlled quite a number of lines. Perth station had a ticket platform, St Leonards Bridge Ticket Platform, 300 yards to the south of the bridge for northbound trains.
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This junction was south of Perth General station. The box here was replaced by St Leonards Bridge Junction Signal Box in 1887 during the reconstruction of Perth station.
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This junction is south of Perth station and north of the Edinburgh Road bridge. It is, today, where the up and down Dundee lines begin.
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