RAILSCOT | Craigie

Craigie

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Craigie (1838-1839)

Opened on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway.
Opened on the Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway.

Description

Craigie was a temporary terminus consisting of a platform erected by the Broughty Ferry Road level crossing near Craigie House. The house was to the north.

This terminus was opened to allow traffic to begin despite its distance from Dundee. Construction west was fraught with difficulties with the land itself and the ownership of the line and land.

This terminus was on a constricted site. It was never intended to be the terminus ultimately, the line was to be extended west to Carolina Port. See Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway.

The site was 2.5 miles east of Dundee. Due to the distance passenger coaches ran to the city.

The station was closed in 1839 on extension of the line west to a new terminus Roodyards.

Much later Stannergate was to open to the west of the former terminus. The Broughty Ferry Road was lifted onto a bridge over the line.

East of this bridge was Craigie signal box. This closed in 1901 when Stannergate (and in particular its East box) opened to the west of the bridge. Further there was no level crossing requiring a gate box.

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map

Nearby stations Stannergate West Ferry Broughty Ferry Broughty Pier Roodyards Tayport Dundee East Dundee Trades Lane Newport-on-Tay East Barnhill (Angus) Dundee West Dundee Dundee Ward Road Balmossie Newport-on-Tay West	Tay Oilcake Works Caledon Shipyard Carolina ^A^ Power Station Caledon Boiler Shop Broughty Ferry Shed Dundee King George V Wharf Broughty Ferry Goods Camperdown Saw Mills and timber Yard Camperdown Shipybuilding Yard Britannia Engineering Works [Dundee] Broughty Junction Maryfield Tram Depot Tourist/other Claypotts Castle Broughty Castle Carolina Port Signal Box
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).
03/06/1839	Dundee and Arbroath Railway Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway The Dundee and Arbroath Railway is extended west from Craigie to Roodyards by the Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway (Dundee Harbour Trustees). With the extension opened the temporary Craigie terminus closed.