Location type

Station

Names and dates

Brechin (1848-1952)
Brechin (1993-)

Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Aberdeen Railway.
Opened on the Brechin and Edzell District Railway.
Open on the Caledonian Railway [Preserved].

Description

This is a preserved station, a terminus. At its height services from Brechin ran to Montrose [CR] (via Dubton), Edzell and Dundee East (via Careston, Forfar [2nd], Kingennie and Broughty Ferry).

Terminus

This station is a terminus. This station was the terminus of the Brechin branch of the Aberdeen Railway. A small goods yard was provided to the south. The original part of the building is of two storeys. A signal box opened in 1880.

Expansion

It was expanded with the opening of the Forfar and Brechin Railway and the Brechin and Edzell District Railway in the 1890s. The building was extended with a new single storey block at the buffer ends around 1895.

The station originally had an all-over roof which was replaced with glazed canopies when the station building was extended round the buffer end of the platform. Brechin Goods was extended east and Brechin Shed [2nd] opened.

A new box opened in 1895 controlling a short section of conventional double track north to Brechin North Junction.

In 1934 Brechin North Junction box closed and the branches to Forfar [2nd] and Edzell now ran as two single track lines as far as Brechin. The box was resignalled.

Closure

Edzell closed to passengers in 1931 (with a short revival in 1939). The secondary route to Forfar [2nd] closed in 1952.
The station closed to passengers in 1952. The Forfar [2nd] route as far as Careston closed in 1958. Brechin box closed in 1962. Edzell closed altogether in 1964. Brechin survived as a goods service continued until 1981.

Preservation

It is now the terminus of the Caledonian Railway [Preserved], re-opening in 1993. Caledonian Railway

Local

Brechin Cathedral

Tags

Terminus Station Preserved

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map

Facilities

Listing: B

Nearby stations Stracathro Farnell Road Bridge of Dun Careston Edzell Glasterlaw Craigo Dubton Guthrie Friockheim Hillside [NB] Montrose Auldbar Road Marykirk Broomfield	Brechin Goods [1st] Caldhame Linen Works Brechin Shed [1st] Den Burn Linen Works Brechin Goods [2nd] City Sawmills [Brechin] [Brechin West Junction] Brechin Shed [2nd] Brechin North Junction Brechin East Junction Kincraig Siding Tourist/other Glencadam Distillery Maison Dieu Chapel Brechin Brechin Cathedral Aldbar Chapel
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.