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Dundee And Arbroath Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![66408 at Carnoustie.<br><br>[Calum McMahon //]](/images/0/963.jpg "Carnoustie")
![Balmossie (the 'Halt' was dropped in 1983) opened in 1962. It was <br>
presumably not thought worth ordering proper totems, though someone went to some trouble to get the shape of these wooden substitutes just right. Very little trouble, however, was taken to get the rest of it right. Even the British Rail image signs which replaced them were wooden, though as I remember some effort was made to reproduce the Helvetica typeface.<br><br>[David Panton //]](/images/26000/26393.jpg "Balmossie Halt")
![Golf Street (the <i>Halt</i> was dropped in 1983) opened in 1948, so unlike nearby Balmossie [see image 26393] there was no real excuse for not providing proper enamel totems; unless it was just too small to warrant the minimum order? <br>
<br><br>[David Panton //]](/images/26000/26423.jpg "Golf Street Halt")
![NB 4.4.2T 67489 passing Kerrs Miniature Railway on Arbroath - Dundee local in July 1953. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/07/1953]](/images/9000/9175.jpg "Arbroath")
![An NBL Type 2 shunts Arbroath goods yard in 1969. A St Rollox driver was once asked <I>What's the best thing about these NBL Type 2s?</I> To which he replied without hesitation <I>The fire extinguisher - I use it more often than the throttle.</I> This no doubt referred to the examples which were not re-engined.<br><br>[David Spaven //1969]](/images/26000/26289.jpg "Arbroath")
![The down <I>'Aberdonian'</I> InterCity HST continues its journey north following the Dundee stop on 5 August 1981. The train is seen here shortly after passing Camperdown Junction with the dock estate to the left and the A92 road running parallel with the line on the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/08/1981]](/images/4000/4194.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![A Class 47 takes a Glasgow - Aberdeen train away from Dundee towards Stannergate in 1981, passing Carolina Port power station on the left. The chimneys were demolished in April 1984, a year after closure of the oil-fired power station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/1981]](/images/36000/36084.jpg "Stannergate")
![Looking east towards the site of Stannergate station (closed 1916) between Dundee and Broughty Ferry in 1981, with an Aberdeen - Kings Cross HST approaching. The bridge linking the A92 (behind the trees on the left) and Stannergate Road has since been closed. The pylons visible have also gone, following the closure of Carolina Port power station on the other side of the bridge [see image 36084]. [Ref query 15197]<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/1981]](/images/54000/54009.jpg "Stannergate")
![An Aberdeen bound train heading east from Dundee in the summer of 1981 approaching the site of the former Stannergate station. Photographed from the (since closed) road bridge from the A92 running into the old dock estate. The notice didn't seem to apply any longer - either that or several local dog walkers were in dead shtook.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/1981]](/images/55000/55349.jpg "Stannergate")
![An Aberdeen bound train on Camperdown level crossing, Dundee, in 1982. The building to the left of Camperdown Junction signal box is part of the former Blue Circle cement terminal.<br><br>[John Furnevel //1982]](/images/5000/5947.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![A pair of Type 2s running light over Camperdown level crossing, Dundee, in 1982. The locomotives will reverse into the cement terminal located behind the signal box. [See image 16149]<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/02/1982]](/images/5000/5946.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![47467 brings a Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen train north over Camperdown level crossing in February 1982. The train has recently cleared Dock Street Tunnel shortly after leaving Dundee station. Camperdown Junction signal box towers over the scene, with the the Blue Circle cement terminal standing beyond and the spire of St Paul's Cathedral visible in the left background. The signal box finally closed in March 1985 and there is no longer a level crossing at this location.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/02/1982]](/images/42000/42113.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![47467 accelerates a Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen train away from Dundee, shortly after completing the climb from Dock Street Tunnel and clearing Camperdown level crossing. View east along Camperdown Street towards Broughty Ferry in February 1982.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/02/1982]](/images/54000/54328.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![BRCW Type 2 26029 with a southbound service at Broughty Ferry in August 1982. The train is standing alongside the abandoned bay platform at the west end of the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/08/1982]](/images/5000/5940.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![Looking east over Broughty Ferry Station in 1985.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1985]](/images/62000/62661.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![Roadside sign in Carnoustie photographed in August 1985, nearly 21 years after the introduction of the <I>new image</I>.<br><br>[David Panton 11/08/1985]](/images/20000/20947.jpg "Carnoustie")
![The unique signal box and footbridge arrangement at Broughty Ferry. Photographed in August 1985 looking over the level crossing towards Aberdeen.<br><br>[David Panton 22/08/1985]](/images/20000/20894.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![Woe betide road users, this shunting went on for some time ...<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16148.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![A class 26 assembles a cement train at Camperdown Junction in 1989. The train is on the siding that once ran down the side of Dundee East station, the lines in the foreground run to Dundee station via Dock Street Tunnel.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16149.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![Broughty Ferry signalbox viewed from the southbound platform in 1989 when the box still had another six years of operational life left. The lattice post to the right once carried a lower quadrant signal which was converted to upper quadrant and then relocated below, presumably for a clearer view. At the time of the photograph it was possible to cross between platforms by subway, bridge and level crossing. See news item.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/27000/27897.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![Balmossie looking west to Broughty Ferry during reconstruction of the nearby footbridge in the summer of 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/27000/27915.jpg "Balmossie")
![158720 passes Barry West signal box in 1991.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1991]](/images/32000/32875.jpg "Barry Links")
![Barry West signal box seen looking west from the station in 1991.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1991]](/images/57000/57895.jpg "Barry Links")
![158718 has just cleared Camperdown level crossing, shortly after leaving Dundee station on 27 May 1992 with a service for Aberdeen. <br><br>[John Furnevel 27/05/1992]](/images/53000/53097.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![Platform view at Broughty Ferry in March 1993 looking east towards Gray Street level crossing and the unique signal box.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /03/1993]](/images/37000/37633.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![View west towards Dundee from Gray Street level crossing, Broughty Ferry, in March 1993. Note the door built into the covered footbridge providing access to the signal box stairway.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /03/1993]](/images/37000/37651.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![View west along the D&A towards Broughty Junction in 1996. The abutments supported the bridge that, until 1967, carried the Caledonian direct line to Forfar across the formation.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/44000/44269.jpg "Broughty Junction")
![Looking to Arbroath from the site of Carmyllie station in 1996. The line continued behind the camera to serve quarries.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/52000/52226.jpg "Carmyllie")
![Platform view east over the level crossing at Broughty Ferry station in August 1996, showing the unique signal box and integral footbridge. Note the doorway at the base of the box which originally gave access from the footbridge directly onto the platform. [See image 10571]<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/08/1996]](/images/5000/5939.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![A southbound train entering Broughty Ferry station over the level crossing in 1996.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/08/1996]](/images/5000/5941.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![A venerable sign (and some fine ironwork) at Barry Links station in October 1997.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 23/10/1997]](/images/50000/50503.jpg "Barry Links")
![Looking south through Broughty Ferry station in October 1997. Photograph taken from the level crossing through the arch of the unique signal box / footbridge. [See image 2916]<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 23/10/1997]](/images/50000/50532.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![150260 stands at Barry Links with the daily down train in July 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/16000/16883.jpg "Barry Links")
![The daily service to Carnoustie at Golf Street in July 1998. (The trains destination blind did not contain <I>Carnoustie</I> - hence <I>Dundee</I> remains on display). <br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/17000/17819.jpg "Golf Street")
![150 258 with the daily down train at Monifieth in July 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/18000/18830.jpg "Monifieth")
![An Aberdeen-bound 158 arrives at Carnoustie in July 1998.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 17/07/1998]](/images/50000/50551.jpg "Carnoustie")
![Down train calls at Balmossie in July 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /7/1998]](/images/16000/16711.jpg "Balmossie")
![The SB at Broughty Ferry station seen from the crossing in Jan 1999. Note the covered overbridge routed through the box itself with signalmans access on the upper level. The listed structure was <I>temporarily dismantled</I> in 2001.<br><br>[David Panton /01/1999]](/images/16000/16682.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![The former station footbridge at Elliot Junction in March 1999. Access to the island platform was via steps from the now blanked off central section of the bridge. Notice the structure comprises 2 standard decks, but in different styles.<br><br>[David Panton 15/03/1999]](/images/20000/20400.jpg "Elliot Junction")
![Looking towards the former station at Elliot Junction in March 1999. View is over the site of the level crossing at the start of the Carmyllie branch.<br><br>[David Panton 15/03/1999]](/images/22000/22547.jpg "Elliot Junction")
![A 6-car 117 set about to head south ecs from Carnoustie during the 1999 <I>Open</I>. <br><br>[David Panton 17/07/1999]](/images/16000/16922.jpg "Carnoustie")
![Virgin Trains 43 097 makes a stop at Carnoustie on 17 July 1999 during the Open golf championships.<br><br>[David Panton 17/07/1999]](/images/17000/17108.jpg "Carnoustie")
![<I>NO, NO!!! ...A SEVEN IRON, A SEVEN IRON....!!!</I> The driver of a <i>Golfers Special</i> DMU is temporarily distracted prior to leaving the platform at Carnoustie for the siding during <I>The Open Golf Championship</I> on 17 July 1999. <br><br>[David Panton 17/07/1999]](/images/21000/21188.jpg "Carnoustie")
![An Aberdeen bound GNER 125 accelerates away from Dundee over Camperdown level crossing on 17 July 1999. <br><br>[David Panton 17/07/1999]](/images/22000/22090.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![A southbound Virgin 125 disgorges golf fans in an untimetabled stop at Carnoustie during the Open on 17 Jul 1999<br><br>[David Panton 17/07/1999]](/images/22000/22333.jpg "Carnoustie")
![In their last months of service 117s were used to form specials from <br>
Edinburgh for the Open Golf at Carnoustie in 1999. Here on 17 <br>
July an ECS set returns to the main line from the siding where it <br>
allowed a train to pass. It then changed ends, moved to the up line and returned in the direction of Dundee.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 17/07/1999]](/images/27000/27073.jpg "Carnoustie")
![Barry Links footbridge looking west. The signalbox was formerly beyond the footbridge. The former excursion platform can be seen on the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2005]](/images/5000/5890.jpg "Barry Links")
![Southbound service passing Carnoustie.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2005]](/images/5000/5892.jpg "Carnoustie")
![Southern approach to Carnoustie station in August 2006. The original station, replaced in 1900, was located on this side of the level crossing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/08/2006]](/images/10000/10679.jpg "Carnoustie")
![The impressive Carnoustie signal box in August 2006, looking seaward over the level crossing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/08/2006]](/images/10000/10708.jpg "Carnoustie")
![Looking north through the station from the level crossing at Carnoustie in August 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/08/2006]](/images/11000/11107.jpg "Carnoustie")
![Looking south from the footbridge over the level crossing at Carnoustie in August 2006 towards the site of the original 1838 station, replaced in 1900 by the current structure, located on the north side of the crossing behind the camera.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/08/2006]](/images/37000/37765.jpg "Carnoustie")
![Looking south along the cobblestones of Gray Street over the level crossing at Broughty Ferry station towards the Tay. Photograph taken in August 2006, with the station platforms running off to the right of the crossing. A wooden shed still stands here but the old signal box which stood behind (and is a listed structure) was 'temporarily' dismantled and removed in 2001. [See image 2916]<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/08/2006]](/images/10000/10571.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![Up platform buildings at Broughty Ferry in August 2006. View east towards Carnoustie.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/08/2006]](/images/10000/10677.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![Detail from the up platform at Broughty Ferry station in August 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/08/2006]](/images/10000/10802.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![An exceptionally hot day at Barry Links looking south in August 2006 with an Aberdeen bound express service on the level crossing. The up platform was part of an island with the south side once used by troop trains serving the nearby MoD Barry Buddon training camp [see image 49155].<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/08/2006]](/images/50000/50603.jpg "Barry Links")
![Platform view looking north at Monifieth in September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel /09/2006]](/images/11000/11671.jpg "Monifieth")
![ScotRail DMU on the way to Dundee, having passed through Broughty Ferry at speed!<br><br>[Adrian Coward 21/09/2006]](/images/11000/11024.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![57601 hauls the Royal Scotsman along the line from Dundee towards Aberdeen.<br><br>[Adrian Coward 21/09/2006]](/images/11000/11025.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![Preparations are apparently being made for track renewal at the Camperdown LC.<br><br>[Adrian Coward 22/09/2006]](/images/11000/11036.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![Trackbed preparation at Elliot Junction. View looks to Dundee.<br><br>[Duncan Ross 02/03/2007]](/images/15000/15593.jpg "Elliot Junction")
![New track and laying equipment at Elliot Junction looking to Arbroath.<br><br>[Duncan Ross 02/03/2007]](/images/15000/15594.jpg "Elliot Junction")
![A southbound train on the approach to Dundee about to pass over Camperdown level crossing on 6 March 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/03/2007]](/images/13000/13892.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![Northbound train on Camperdown level crossing, Dundee in March 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/03/2007]](/images/14000/14685.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![Remains of West Ferry station photographed on 23 May 2007, some 40 years after closure.<br><br>[David Panton 23/05/2007]](/images/20000/20619.jpg "West Ferry")
![Looking east over Broughty Ferry station from Fort Street bridge on 23 May 2007 with the outline of the former bay platform still visible on the right. [See image 5940]<br><br>[David Panton 23/05/2007]](/images/24000/24765.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![Gray Street level crossing, Broughty Ferry, on 23 May 2007. Looking west along the platforms towards Dundee.<br><br>[David Panton 23/05/2007]](/images/24000/24794.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![Platform 1 at Broughty Ferry looking west on 23 May 2007<br><br>[David Panton 23/05/2007]](/images/24000/24851.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![<i>Danger of tripping</i> warns the sign. There is also a sense of disorientation. Barry Links footbridge with old enamel sign.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /08/2007]](/images/16000/16302.jpg "Barry Links")
![View looking south. The left platform is out of use, previously used for troop trains serving Barry Buddon Firing Range.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/08/2007]](/images/16000/16200.jpg "Barry Links")
![North view toward Carnoustie.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/08/2007]](/images/16000/16208.jpg "Barry Links")
![Station building at Barry Links - August 2007, view south.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/08/2007]](/images/16000/16215.jpg "Barry Links")
![Wistful look east at Golf Street in September 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/17000/17880.jpg "Golf Street")
![View from the eastbound platform at Balmossie on 19 September 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 19/09/2007]](/images/16000/16712.jpg "Balmossie")
![Looking east from the footbridge at Balmossie on 19 September 2007. <br>
The shortness of the platforms exaggerates the stagger. If one platform were to warrant a shelter it would be the Dundee-bound one, but the tiny number of people each year catching the daily train the other way do at least get a bench. For a picture of one of those trains a few years earlier [see image 16711].<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 19/09/2007]](/images/32000/32046.jpg "Balmossie")
![Glasgow service calls at Carnoustie<br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/10/2007]](/images/16000/16931.jpg "Carnoustie")
![Rear of signal cabin and platforms, either side of level crossing. View from east.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/10/2007]](/images/16000/16932.jpg "Carnoustie")
![Aberdeen express class 170 passing the former Carnoustie station (closed 1900) The camera is on the present up platform.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/10/2007]](/images/16000/16933.jpg "Carnoustie")
![170 424 forming a Glasgow - Aberdeen train at Carnoustie on 31 July. <br><br>[David Panton 31/07/2008]](/images/20000/20166.jpg "Carnoustie")
![An Aberdeen to Glasgow service accelerates through Golf Street after a stop at Carnoustie, half a mile away, on 31 Jul 2008. With one service per day each way Monday to Saturday Golf Street and nearby Barry Links vie for bottom position in the Scottish passenger league.<br><br>[David Panton 31/07/2008]](/images/20000/20229.jpg "Golf Street")
![170 428 heads south past the site of Elliot Junction station on 16 October 2008 with an Aberdeen - Glasgow Queen Street service.<br><br>[Sandy Steele 16/10/2008]](/images/21000/21066.jpg "Elliot Junction")
![The <I>Great Britain II</I> railtour leaves Arbroath southbound on Sunday 12 April running alongside <I>Kerr's Miniature railway</I> hauled by 45407 and 45231. <br><br>[Sandy Steele 12/04/2009]](/images/23000/23241.jpg "Arbroath")
![Platform celebration at Arbroath station on 20 October 2009. Photograph showing the <I>Declaration of Arbroath</I> mural by Charles Anderson, having been presented to Arbroath Station by <i>Arbroath Abbey Timethemes</i>, following inspection during the franchise anniversary tour by ScotRail MD Steve Montgomery.<br><br>[First ScotRail 20/10/2009]](/images/5000/5572.jpg "Arbroath")
![Tayside Biodiversity festival, May 2010 - platform scene at Carnoustie.<br><br>[John Yellowlees /05/2010]](/images/4000/4447.jpg "Carnoustie")
![Power car 43066 in East Midlands Trains livery on the rear of an Aberdeen-Leeds HST service pauses at Arbroath on 31 December 2010.<br><br>[Sandy Steele 31/12/2010]](/images/32000/32145.jpg "Arbroath")
![The 4A13 Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal train, hauled by DRS 66423, seen heading north from Dundee near West Ferry on 8 April 2011.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 08/04/2011]](/images/33000/33568.jpg "West Ferry")
![170 418 has just past the former station at West Ferry on 8 April 2011 as it heads south towards Dundee.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 08/04/2011]](/images/33000/33617.jpg "West Ferry")
![Sign of a revival at Broughty Ferry station on 12 December 2011 - see news item.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 12/12/2011]](/images/2000/2801.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![Platform 1 at Broughty Ferry station on 6 August 2012. The former ticket office and waiting room have been separated from the station area to form a new retail/restaurant development. The former signal box, which once stood alongside the level crossing has been refurbished and relocated alongside.<br><br>[Derek Smart 06/08/2012]](/images/2000/2916.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![The unique Broughty Ferry signal box that once stood alongside Gray Street level crossing at the east end of the station [see image 27897]. Now restored and relocated midway along platform 1 [see news item]. <br><br>[Derek Smart 06/08/2012]](/images/3000/3072.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![Platform scene at Broughty Ferry on 6 August looking east towards the level crossing. 170402 stands at Platform 2 with the 15:09 Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen service. Part of the recent retail development on the south side of the station, together with the refurbished and relocated signal box, can be seen on the right. [See news item].<br><br>[Derek Smart 06/08/2012]](/images/10000/10319.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![Monifieth Rotary have adopted Monifieth Station with a barrel-train so as to mark additional calls there from 9 December by the 0453 Inverness-Edinburgh, 1611 Glasgow-Arbroath, 1819 Arbroath-Edinburgh and 2141 Glasgow-Aberdeen.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 29/10/2013]](/images/45000/45144.jpg "Monifieth")
![The 10.43 departure for Glasgow Queen Street pulls into Broughty Ferry, Scotland's oldest operational station, on Friday 17 January. Note the barrel-train planter adopted by the local Rotary, standing on the right.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 17/01/2014]](/images/45000/45997.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![The former Camperdown level crossing, Dundee, on February 15 2015, looking south from the A92. The crossing was closed after the Port of Dundee confirmed access was no longer required. [See image 5947]<br><br>[Adrian Coward 15/02/2015]](/images/50000/50558.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
![1439 to GLC arriving at Carnoustie<br><br>[John Yellowlees 13/04/2016]](/images/54000/54860.jpg "Carnoustie")
![Business start-up space to let at Broughty Ferry, unique location, (extremely) good access to public transport. View from a northbound train on the level crossing.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 13/04/2016]](/images/54000/54913.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![This ultimately unnecessary terminus of the D&A Joint railway was a couple of hundred yards from Camperdowm Junction where the D&A was joined by the NBR line from Dundee (Tay Bridge). After demolition there were some wilderness years before this prominent branch of a car dealership neatly took over the site. There is still a narrow strip of railway land between the dealership and the retaining wall of the NBR's line, at the east end of Dock Street tunnel below. Camperdown sidings are however long out of use and Camperdown is just the name of an LC.<br><br>[David Panton 31/05/2016]](/images/55000/55411.jpg "Dundee East")
![Up close and personal. An Edinburgh to Inverurie service pulls out of<br>
Broughty Ferry and over the level crossing on 25th October 2017. The service here is not great, though better than the token one it had for many years. It suffers, like Invergowrie, for being a suburban location with no suburban service. Broughty Ferry and Invergowrie will have an hourly service from May 2019.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 25/10/2017]](/images/61000/61787.jpg "Broughty Ferry")
![​​ScotRail's training HST set approaches Dundee from the north on 7 November 2017. It has just crossed to the Down Line at Camperdown, not something done by service trains.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 07/11/2017]](/images/62000/62192.jpg "Camperdown Junction")
