Lochee West

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Victoria [Dundee] (1861-1862)
Camperdown (1862-1896)
Lochee West (1896-1916)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

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

Description

This was a single platform station, on the north side of the line. It was on the western edge of Lochee, beside Victoria Cottage, near a series of quarries such as Charleston Quarry, just to the west.

The platform was in timber, as was the station building. The building survived closure of the station to passengers and remained up to line closure.

There was a goods yard, with a shed, to the north of the station which was 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.

The station site is now housing, Overton Gardens and housing bordering Elmwood Road. To the east the trackbed is a footpath.

Tags

Station

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
NLS Map

Chronology Dates

01/02/1896Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Camperdown station is renamed Lochee West.
01/01/1917Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Lochee West station closed.

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)