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

Chronology Dates

06/10/1838Dundee 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).
  /  /1846Dundee 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).
01/02/1848Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Arbroath (Lady Loan) closed and line cut back to the west where the new deviation connected.

Books


Railways of Dundee (Oakwood Library of Railway History)

The Dundee & Arbroath Railway