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This was a station with two staggered platforms. The northbound platform was north of the level crossing on the west side, with the goods yard to the east (served from the north), and the southbound platform to the south of the crossing on the east side. A footbridge, south of the road, crossed the line. This had two sets of stairs at its east end (one from the roadway and another from the platform) and a single flight down to the roadway, and northbound platform, at its west end. The signal box was on the east side of the line north of the level crossing. The main station building was at the south end of the northbound platform.

The station was probably build to serve Letham Grange and Colliston House, both of which are not far off. Colliston is to the west.

The southbound line was lifted in 1936 before closure, the box was reduced to a gate box as a result. The station closed to passengers in 1955. It closed to the south in 1959, becoming the terminus of a goods line from Guthrie Junction (the box probably closed in 1956 when the junction at St Vigeans Junction was taken out).

Colliston was used to store surplus carriages around this time.

Complete closure was in 1965.

North of the level crossing is a part of the northbound platform, the back wall of the station building with a fiewplace, a former station cottage which has been extended over the trackbed, and a garden (the former goods yard). To the south the southbound platform remains and the trackbed is a foot / cycle path to St Vigeans

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Letham Grange was not far east of the station. It became the Letham Grange Hotel. Back in 1995 the hotel asked for a page, there being no other mentioning of the name 'Letham Grange' on the internet.

The hotel is not presently open (2018), but the golf course remains. Letham Grange Golf Club

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