Arbroath (Catherine Street)
Location type
StationName and dates
Arbroath (Catherine Street) (1839-1848)Opened on the Arbroath and Forfar Railway.
Description
This was the Arbroath terminus of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway. A goods line continued beyond the station, on its east side, to Arbroath Harbour.
At the station there was a passenger trainshed, with ticket offices and waiting rooms, a locomotive shed and carriage shed.
Arbroath station opened just to the west in 1848 on a new line which linked the Arbroath and Forfar Railway to the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. The replaced station became a goods yard.
On the harbour branch there were several level crossings (going south from Arbroath Junction):
- (weighing machines)
- Catherine Street
- Bridge Street
- Millgate
- Chalmers Street / North Grimsby
- Union Street / South Grimsby (the Grimsby Loading Bank goods yard was here)
- (lines divide here)
- Shore (Arbroath Saw Mills, Arbroath Harbour and Arbroath Wet Dock)
With the opening of Arbroath, the nearby Arbroath (Lady Loan), terminus of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway, closed completely along with its approach.
Tags
Terminus Stations| Nearby stations Arbroath Arbroath (Lady Loan) Arbroath West Links Hospitalfield Halt Elliot Junction Arbirlot Cuthlie Letham Grange Colliston Denhead Cauldcots Easthaven Leysmill Carmyllie Inverkeilor | Arbroath D and A Shed Arbroath Goods Arbroath Harbour Junction Westburn Iron Foundry Wellgate Works Grimsby Loading Bank Arbroath Saw Mills Arbroath Shed [1st] Arbroath Shed Dens Iron Works St Vigeans Junction Arbroath ^The Dens^ Siding Tourist/other Arbroath Signal Box Arbroath Harbour Arbroath Abbey |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 24/11/1838 | Arbroath and Forfar Railway Opened partly with horse haulage. Stations opened at: Arbroath (Catherine Street), Colliston and Leysmill. |
| 30/07/1846 | Arbroath and Forfar Railway Arbroath (Catherine Street) to Friockheim doubling contract let, contractor Robert Moffat (Junior). |
| 01/02/1848 | Arbroath and Forfar Railway Arbroath (Catherine Street) closed to passengers, replaced by the nearby Arbroath Junction station on the new link line. The station remains in use as a goods yard. |
Books
 The Arbroath and Forfar Railway: The Dundee Direct Line and the Kirriemuir Branch (Oakwood Library of Railway History) |
