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Arbroath (Lady Loan)

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Arbroath (Lady Loan) (1838-1848)

Opened on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway.

Description

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.

The terminus was described as having two lines under a trainshed with a high pitched Gothic roof. There was a locomotive shed and turntables for both engines and carriages.

Unlike the nearby Arbroath (Catherine Street), which survived as a goods yard along with the line down to the harbour, this terminus and its approach closed completely.

Tags

Terminus Stations

Nearby stations Arbroath (Catherine Street) Arbroath Arbroath West Links Hospitalfield Halt Elliot Junction Arbirlot Cuthlie Letham Grange Colliston Denhead Easthaven Cauldcots Leysmill Carmyllie Inverkeilor	Arbroath Saw Mills Grimsby Loading Bank Arbroath D and A Shed Arbroath Goods Arbroath Harbour Junction Westburn Iron Foundry Wellgate Works Arbroath Shed [1st] Arbroath Shed Dens Iron Works St Vigeans Junction Arbroath ^The Dens^ Siding Tourist/other Arbroath Harbour Arbroath Signal Box Arbroath Abbey
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

06/10/1838	Dundee and Arbroath Railway Arbroath (Lady Loan) to Dundee Craigie opened. Stations opened at: Arbroath (Lady Loan), Easthaven, Carnoustie [1st], Monifieth, Broughty Ferry, Dundee Craigie (a temporary terminus east of Dundee).
/ /1846	Dundee and Arbroath Railway Arbroath and Forfar Railway Junction Line (Dundee and Arbroath Railway) Authorisation of a new D&A owned curve to link the Arbroath and Forfar Railway (at Almeriecloss) and Dundee and Arbroath Railway (at Geordie's Burn) with a new Arbroath Junction station. Also allows for abandonment of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway's terminus Arbroath (Lady Loan).
01/02/1848	Dundee and Arbroath Railway Arbroath (Lady Loan) closed and line cut back to the west where the new deviation connected.