Letham Mill Siding
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Letham Mill Siding (-1959)Opened on the Arbroath and Forfar Railway.
Description
This siding was north of St Vigeans Junction on the closed line to Forfar. The siding was on the east side of the line and approached from the north. Just to the north was a level crossing. There was a signal box on the east side of the line, just south of the crossing, and a trailing crossover. The siding led to the Letham Mill.
The line was singled northwards to Leysmill in 1936.
South to St Vigeans Junction closed in 1956 and the box here closed, although the siding remained in use and was now the end of a long siding from Guthrie Junction. The line north to Colliston closed in 1959.
The trackbed is now footpath.
Tags
Siding signal box footpath
| Nearby stations Letham Grange Colliston Arbroath Arbroath (Catherine Street) Arbroath (Lady Loan) Arbroath West Links Hospitalfield Halt Cuthlie Arbirlot Cauldcots Elliot Junction Leysmill Denhead Inverkeilor Carmyllie | Letham Mill Letham Quarry Signal Box Letham Quarry Waukmill Level Crossing Box Waukmills Bleachfield Arbroath ^The Dens^ Siding St Vigeans Junction Dens Iron Works Arbroath Shed Arbroath Shed [1st] Tourist/other St Vigeans Stones and Museum St Vigeans Level Crossing Waulkmill Signal Box Letham Grange Hotel Arbroath Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 27/12/1936 | Arbroath and Forfar Railway Singled between Letham Mill Siding and Leysmill. Colliston becomes a gate box. |
| 05/12/1955 | Arbroath and Forfar Railway St Vigeans Junction (excluded) to Letham Mill Siding (excluded) closed to goods and completely. |
| 02/07/1956 | Arbroath and Forfar Railway Letham Mill Siding signal box closed. |
| 01/01/1959 | Arbroath and Forfar Railway Letham Mill Siding to Colliston (excluded) closed to goods. However, this was retained for redundant wagon storage. |
| 15/01/1965 | Arbroath and Forfar Railway Letham Mill Siding to Colliston (excluded), which had been used as a long siding for for redundant wagon storage, closed. |
Books
 The Arbroath and Forfar Railway: The Dundee Direct Line and the Kirriemuir Branch (Oakwood Library of Railway History) |
