Fairmuir Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Fairmuir Junction (1885-1965)Opened on the Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway).
Opened on the Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway).
Description
This was the junction between the deviation of the Dundee and Newtyle, built by the Scottish Central Railway (1861) and the branch to Fairmuir Goods (1885). The deviation replaced the original route via the Law Incline and Law Tunnel from Dundee Ward Road with a new route round the west side of the Law via Lochee. A little to the north of the junction the deviation met the original course of the line.
A signal box opened in 1887, set back some way from the junction lines. There was a loop (for passenger and goods trains) on the line north and another on the Fairmuir Goods approach. A headshunt from the the goods yard accessed Kings Cross Bakery. The box opened around the time the extension east to Maryfield Goods opened (1890).
A siding to the south ran west to an industrial estate from the 1950s, serving Kingsway Siding. One siding served the BX Plastic Works. Approach was from the north.
The Newtyle line closed to passengers in 1955 and ceased to be a through route when Auchterhouse [2nd] became goods terminus in 1958.
To Auchterhouse [2nd] closed in 1965 and the line closed completely in 1967.
Tags
Junction
| Nearby stations Crossroads Offset at Back of Law Baldovan and Downfield Lochee Lochee West Dundee Ward Road Dundee Trades Lane Baldragon Dundee East Dundee West Dundee Magdalen Green Dundee Esplanade Ninewells Junction [Station] Liff | Kings Cross Bakery Engineering Works Stobsmuir Junction Kingsway West Siding Kingsway [Tram] Fairmuir [Tram] [Downfield Junction] Fairmuir Goods Clepington Road [Tram] Siding Offset at Back of Law Workshops Camperdown Jute and Hemp Works Lochee Goods Law Tunnel Tourist/other Dundee Law |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Rhubarb JunctionDue to the planting of rhubarb by a signalman by the signal box during the Second World War, and its continuing to grow for many years afterwards, the junction acquired the name 'Rhubarb Junction'. |
Chronology Dates
Books
 Dundee and Newtyle Railway Including the Alyth and Blairgowrie Branches (Oakwood Library of Railway History) | Getting around Old Dundee |  Railways of Dundee (Oakwood Library of Railway History) |
