Dundee Earl Grey Dock
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Dundee Earl Grey DockDescription
This dock in Dundee was opened around 1837, the engineer/architect being Alexander Leslie. It was a wet dock, access being via a lock to Dundee Tidal Harbour which was entered directly from the River Tay.
The fine Victoria Royal Arch, an entry arch to celebrate a visit by Queen Victoria, was located between the Earl Grey Dock and neighbouring (to the east) King William IV Dock.
The dock was rail served by the Dundee and Newtyle Railway. That line was extended from Dundee Ward Road station to Dundee Earl Grey Dock in 1837.
Later lines also served the dock, sidings extending from Dundee West Goods and Tay Bridge Goods to the dock. These stations were to the west of the dock (Tay Bridge station is now Dundee station).
The Dundee and Newtyle Railway approach was closed in 1857 at the insistence of the council.
The Dundee Harbour Trustees lines extended from the goods yards west of the dock eastwards to serve other docks and reach Camperdown Junction by Dundee East station.
The dock was closed in the 1960s, filled in and reclaimed. The site was redeveloped. No sign of the dock remains. The site has recently been redeveloped again. It is now Slessor Gardens and new developments such as the Site Six office block.
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Dock| Nearby stations Dundee West Dundee Dundee Trades Lane Dundee East Dundee Ward Road Dundee Esplanade Roodyards Magdalen Green Offset at Back of Law Crossroads Newport-on-Tay East Lochee Newport-on-Tay West Stannergate Ninewells Junction [Station] | Dock Street Tunnel Dundee Craig Harbour Dundee West Goods Dundee Signalling Centre Tay Bridge Goods Tay Foundry [1st] Panmuir Shipyard Dundee Victoria Dock Tay Bridge Minerals Dundee Ward Road Shed Dundee Tay Bridge Shed Tourist/other V and A Museum Dundee RRS Discovery Discovery Point HM Frigate Unicorn |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| /02/1837 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Line extended from Dundee Ward Road station to Dundee Earl Grey Dock in Dundee Harbour. |
| / /1857 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Dundee magistrates order the Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction Railway to remove the Dundee and Newtyle Railway's harbour branch which ran as a street tramway between Dundee Ward Road and the Dundee Earl Grey Dock. Negotiations led to the DP&AJR having to promote a deviation (the Lochee Deviation, owned by the DP&AJR) avoiding the Law Incline and removal of the street tramway, replacing it with a locomotive worked line. |
