Border Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Border Signal BoxOpened on the Arbroath and Forfar Railway.
Description
This signal box controlled access to Border Quarry, on the north/east side of the railway. There was a long private siding running from the southbound line, with which it made a trailing connection. This served the north part of the quarry and had a headshunt which served the southern part. There was a public siding on the south/west side of the line, making a trailing connection to the northbound line. The signal box was on the south side of the line and south of this siding. Legaston Quarry, which had a network of tramways, was on the south/west side of the line.
The box was on the route of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway, an old line which opened in 1838.
The box closed in 1936 when the line was singled.
Closure to passengers of the line was in 1955. It became a branch to Colliston from Guthrie Junction in 1959 and closed altogether in 1965.
The trackbed formation and quarry sites remain disused and intact.
Tags
Signal box junction quarry
| Nearby stations Leysmill Friockheim Glasterlaw Colliston Guthrie Letham Grange Carmyllie Cauldcots Denhead Auldbar Road Cuthlie Inverkeilor Farnell Road Arbirlot Arbroath | Border Quarry Legaston Quarry Leysmill Quarry Friockheim Junction Friockheim Viaduct Glasterlaw Junction Guthrie Junction Guthrie Gate Waukmills Bleachfield Waukmill Level Crossing Box Letham Quarry Tourist/other Colliston Castle Letham Grange Hotel Guthrie Castle Waulkmill Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 The Arbroath and Forfar Railway: The Dundee Direct Line and the Kirriemuir Branch (Oakwood Library of Railway History) |
