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This locomotive shed was built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway. It was a little north east of the Forfar [1st] terminus, also known as Playfield. It was probably not the very first shed in Forfar as an original at the station was removed to allow expansion of the goods yard there. The shed was on the south side of Market Street and north side of the line, which crossed the street just to the north east.

After the line was extended west to Perth in 1848 by the Scottish Midland Junction Railway the original terminus and locomotive shed were left on a short branch from near Forfar North Junction.

By the OS map of 1860 the sheds were on a loop on the north side of the branch. There were two buildings. The loop serving these buildings came off the branch to the east (on the north side of the Market Street level crossing) entered a single road timber building (the original running shed) before continuing through this to a 34ft turntable which served six sidings to its west (from north to south, four lines into the larger stone built shed building, a siding and the loop which first served a long coaling bench before it rejoined the Forfar [1st] branch just to the west. The four road building replaced the single road building as running shed after 1848.

It was replaced by Forfar Shed [2nd] which was built north of the large goods yard of Forfar [2nd] station.

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