RAILSCOT | Liff

Liff

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Liff (1861-1955)

Opened on the Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway).

Description

Initially this was a single platform station built on the north side of the line with a siding to the west, served from the west.

The station was on the deviation opened in 1861 to replace the Law Incline and Law Tunnel approach to Dundee Ward Road. The deviation joined the Dundee and Perth Railway at Ninewells Junction and trains ran on to Dundee West.

A signal box opened in 1893.

A loop was installed in 1898 and the goods yard altered for reversal from the northbound line. Station buildings were enlarged. The signal box was replaced, the new box being at the west end of the eastbound (original) platform.

The Dundee Linoleum Works opened to the east before 1920, served by reversing from the southbound line.

The station closed to passengers in 1955. The box survived until 1967 when the line closed.

The station site is now a sports centre and the trackbed is part of the Green Circular footpath. The works site is now a supermarket.

Aliases

Balgarthno

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map

Nearby stations Lochee West Invergowrie Ninewells Junction [Station] Lochee Magdalen Green Crossroads Offset at Back of Law Baldovan and Downfield Baldragon Balbeuchley Foot Dundee Esplanade Dundee Ward Road Longforgan Dronley Dundee West	Dundee Linoleum Factory Charleston Quarry Easter Mylnefield Quarry Ninewells Junction Kingoodie Quarries Camperdown Jute and Hemp Works Kingsway West Siding Lochee Goods Siding Fairmuir Junction Kings Cross Bakery Auchrie Quarry Engineering Works Tourist/other Esplanade Junction Signal Box Dundee Law
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Renamed before opening

This station was planned to been called Balgarthno but the name was changed to Liff before the line was opened.

Chronology Dates

/ /1861	Dundee and Newtyle Railway Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway) Deviation from Ninewells Junction to by Fairmuir Junction opened. Liff, Victoria [Dundee], Lochee stations opened.
/04/1898	Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway) Loop opened at Fairmuir Junction on the Newtyle [2nd] route. Loop opened at Liff.
10/01/1955	Newtyle and Glammis Railway Dundee and Newtyle Railway Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway) Alyth Junction to Dundee West closed to passengers. Newtyle [2nd], Auchterhouse [2nd], Dronley, Baldragon, Baldovan and Downfield, Lochee, Liff closed.