Dronley
Location type
StationName and dates
Dronley (1860-1955)Opened on the Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway).
Description
This station was on the deviation which allowed the Balbeuchly Incline to close.
This was a single platform station, on the north side of the line. To the west, on the other side of a bridge over a minor road, was a goods siding, approached from the east.
A portion of platform remains. The goods yard is now a car park. The trackbed is a footpath.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
12/06/2018
| Nearby stations Balbeuchly Foot Auchterhouse [2nd] Auchterhouse [1st] Balbeuchly Top Baldragon Liff Baldovan and Downfield Lochee West Lochee Invergowrie Cross Roads Offset at Back of Law Ninewells Junction [Station] Newtyle [1st] Newtyle [2nd] | Eastfield Road Bridge Leoch Quarry Balbeuchly Incline Pitpointe Siding Fallaws Quarry Rosemill Quarry Auchrie Quarry Rosemill Loop Auchrie Quarry Siding Balbeuchly Engine Rosemill Siding Rose Mills Chemicals Boniton Siding Pitnappie Quarry Tourist/other Balbeuchley House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Dates
| / /1860 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway) Auchterhouse [2nd] deviation opened. This first part of the improvements, the Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway). Dronley and Auchterhouse [2nd] opened. Balbeuchly Top and Auchterhouse [1st] closed. |
| 10/01/1955 | Newtyle, Eassie and Glammis RailwayDundee and Newtyle Railway Alyth Junction to Dundee West closed to passengers. Newtyle [2nd], Auchterhouse [2nd], Dronley, Baldragon, Baldovan and Downfield, Lochee, Liff closed. |
