Arbroath and Forfar Railway

Introduction

This pioneering line ran from Arbroath (Catherine Street) to Forfar (Playfield). It was a 5 ft 6 in line. With the opening of long distance lines it was re-gauged to standard gauge. The bulk of it was not a main line but the portion from Forfar North Junction to Guthrie Junction became part of the Strathmore main line route to Aberdeen and the short portion north from Arbroath became part of the East Coast main line route to Aberdeen.

The line is closed (except for a short section between St Vigeans Junction and Arbroath). Today the nearest station is at Arbroath.






Dates

  /  /1836Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Act receives Royal assent.
  /  /1838Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Arbroath Harbour Junction to Arbroath Harbour opened.
24/11/1838Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Opened partly with horse haulage. Stations opened at: Arbroath (Catherine Street), Colliston and Leysmill.
04/12/1838Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Leysmill to Forfar officially opened. Stations opened at: Leysmill, Friockheim, Guthrie, Auldbar Road, Clocksbriggs, Forfar [1st].
03/01/1839Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Completely opened, goods traffic commences. James Gow was the locomotive superintendent. Three locomotives were supplied by James Stirling of Dundee Foundry.
  /  /1845Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Act receives Royal assent. Line to connect with the Scottish Central Railway in Perth and the Arbroath and Forfar Railway in Forfar.
  /  /1846Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Converted to standard gauge from 5ft 6in.
  /  /1846Arbroath and Forfar Railway Aberdeen Railway
Act passed to allow the Arbroath and Forfar Railway to be leased by the Aberdeen Railway.
  /  /1846Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Junction Line (Dundee and Arbroath Railway)
Authorisation of a new D&A owned curve to link the Arbroath and Forfar Railway (at Almeriecloss) and Dundee and Arbroath Railway (at Geordie's Burn) with a new Arbroath Junction station. Also allows for abandonment of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway's terminus Arbroath (Lady Loan).
30/07/1846Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Arbroath (Catherine Street) to Friockheim doubling contract let, contractor Robert Moffat (Junior).
07/08/1846Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Friockheim to Forfar (Playfield) doubling contract let, contractor David Murray.
  /  /1848Arbroath and Forfar Railway Aberdeen Railway
Arbroath and Forfar Railway leased by the Aberdeen Railway.
01/02/1848Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Arbroath (Catherine Street) closed to passengers, replaced by the nearby Arbroath Junction station on the new link line. The station remains in use as a goods yard.
01/02/1848Dundee and Arbroath Railway Arbroath and Forfar Railway Junction Line (Dundee and Arbroath Railway)
New D&A owned curve to linking the Arbroath and Forfar Railway (at Almeriecloss) and Dundee and Arbroath Railway (at Geordie's Burn) opened. The curve includes the new Arbroath Junction station.
02/08/1848Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Scottish Midland Junction Railway line opened from Perth to Forfar [2nd]. Forfar (Playfield) closed to passengers. The line incorporates most of the former Newtyle and Glammis Railway and Newtyle and Coupar Angus Railway.
02/08/1848Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Forfar [1st] (Playfield) closed to passengers with the opening of Forfar [2nd] on the Scottish Midland Junction Railway.
  /  /1862Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Authorisation to expand Friockheim station, not done.
  /  /1862Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Authorisation to buy land at Guthrie to expand station.
  /  /1879Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Agreement that a short portion of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway between Arbroath Harbour Junction and St Vigeans Junction should become joint Caledonian Railway and North British Railway.
01/02/1880Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway Caledonian Railway North British Railway
Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway authorised (Caledonian Railway and North British Railway). This involved the bulk of the former Dundee and Arbroath Railway between Camperdown Junction and near Arbroath station and a short portion of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway as far as St Vigeans Junction. This followed the opening of the Tay Bridge [1st] in 1878 and the impending opening of the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway of 1880.
27/11/1908Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Fire caused by crash between passenger and goods trains at Guthrie.
01/01/1917Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Clocksbriggs closed.
01/06/1919Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Clocksbriggs re-opened.
01/01/1923Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway
Caledonian Railway
Glasgow and South Western Railway
Callander and Oban Railway
Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Highland Railway
Cathcart District Railway
Killin Railway
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Committee
Brechin and Edzell District Railway
Dornoch Light Railway
Wick and Lybster Light Railway
Grouped into London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
19/05/1936Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Waulkmill Signal Box closed.
13/09/1936Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Leysmill to Guthrie Junction singled.
27/12/1936Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Singled between Letham Mill Siding and Leysmill. Colliston becomes a gate box.
05/12/1955Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Arbroath to Forfar [2nd] local passenger trains withdrawn. Colliston, Leysmill, Friockheim, Guthrie, Clocksbriggs stations closed. St Vigeans Junction to Guthrie Junction closed to passengers.
05/12/1955Arbroath and Forfar Railway
St Vigeans Junction (excluded) to Letham Mill Siding (excluded) closed to goods and completely.
11/06/1956Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Auldbar Road closed.
02/07/1956Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Letham Mill Siding signal box closed.
01/01/1959Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Letham Mill Siding to Colliston (excluded) closed to goods. However, this was retained for redundant wagon storage.
  /  /1962Aberdeen Joint (Caledonian Railway) Aberdeen Railway Arbroath and Forfar Railway Scottish Midland Junction Railway Scottish Central Railway Caledonian Railway Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway)
A4 Pacifics introduced on the Aberdeen to Glasgow Buchanan Street 3 hour Grampian run.
  /  /1963Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Arbroath Harbour Junction to Arbroath Harbour closed.
15/01/1965Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Letham Mill Siding to Colliston (excluded), which had been used as a long siding for for redundant wagon storage, closed.
23/01/1965Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Colliston and Leysmill signal boxes closed. Colliston to Guthrie Junction (excluded) closed to goods and completely.
03/09/1966Aberdeen Joint (Caledonian Railway) Aberdeen Railway Arbroath and Forfar Railway Scottish Midland Junction Railway Scottish Central Railway Caledonian Railway Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway)
A4 Pacifics from Aberdeen to Glasgow Buchanan Street withdrawn.
04/09/1967Aberdeen RailwayArbroath and Forfar Railway
Forfar North Junction (excluded) to Bridge of Dun (excluded) closed to all traffic.
04/09/1967Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Newtyle and Coupar Angus Railway
Newtyle and Glammis Railway
Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Aberdeen Railway
Stanley Junction to Kinnaber Junction closed to passengers. Coupar Angus, Alyth Junction, Forfar and Bridge of Dun stations closed.
31/10/1979Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Forfar North Junction to Forfar [1st] (Playfield) closed to goods and competely.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Arbroath to Forfar

A goods branch of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway extended south as a double track line beyond the terminus at Arbroath (Catherine Street) to Arbroath Harbour. South of Grimsby Loading Bank, a goods yard between South Grimsby and Shore, the line subdivided into sidings to Arbroath Saw Mills (to the west), west and south side of the Arbroath Wet Dock and the north side of the ...

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This was a goods station on the Arbroath Harbour goods branch, the sidings being approached from the north. The yard was located between South Grimsby and Shore. To the south lines divided to reach Arbroath Saw Mills, Arbroath Harbour and Arbroath Wet Dock. The loading bank was on the west side of the yard.
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Abroath harbour lines looking north to Arbroath station in 1961. The view is from Shore with South Grimsby level crossing just beyond the wagons. ...
David Murray-Smith 03/04/1961
A view in Arbroath of the harbour line in 1961. The view is towards the Harbour from North Grimsby (street). The original Catherine Street terminus is ...
David Murray-Smith 03/04/1961
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This was the Arbroath terminus of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway. A goods line continued beyond the station, on its east side, to Arbroath Harbour.
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This junction was directly north of today's Arbroath station. It was the connection between the Arbroath and Forfar Railway of 1838 and the Junction Line (Dundee and Arbroath Railway) of 1847 which linked the A&F to the Dundee and Arbroath Railway.
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Junction Line (Dundee and Arbroath Railway)
A met cam 101 DMU departs Arbroath heading north. ...
Roger Geach Collection //1970s
Met-Camm 101395 draws past Arbroath North signalbox before returning to the station to form a southbound service in 1987.
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Bill Roberton //1987
The 11:48 arrival at Arbroath from Edinburgh, 170408, heading past the signal box to the sidings for a very short lay over before returning to form ...
Duncan Ross 03/06/2021
47705 Lothian propels a push-pull train from Aberdeen into Arbroath in 1987.
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Bill Roberton //1987
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Arbroath signal box remains open today, alongside Wellgate level crossing.
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This was a two road shed north of Arbroath and Arbroath Junction. It was on the east side of the line north of the Cairnie Street / Guthrie Port bridge. Access was via a reversing spur which made a trailing connection to the southbound line. There was a turntable on the eastern of the two shed roads.
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This was a three road shed built to the north of Arbroath station on the line to Forfar. It was similar to Forfar Shed [2nd] in appearance (which still stands) but with three lines.
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DRS 66 428 heads a Grangemouth-Aberdeen container train past St Vigeans, a mile north of Arbroath in May 2009. ...
Sandy Steele /05/2009
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This level crossing was directly east of St Vigeans Church, the Arbroath and Forfar Railway crossing over a minor road. There was no station or goods yard. There was a crossing keeper's cottage and a small frame for signals, later a gatebox. The North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway was later built just to the east, crossing the same road with a bridge. To the south was [[St ...

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This was the level crossing at St Vigeans on the Arbroath and Forfar Railway, as seen in 1996. The open line between Arbroath and Montrose is off to ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
A bird takes fright as a ScotRail HST heads for Aberdeen. St Vigeans Church is on the right and the trackbed of the former Arbroath and Forfar Railway ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
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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.
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Looking north in the direction of Guthrie at the former Letham Mill level crossing. On this side of the crossing there was signal box on the right and ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
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This was a private level crossing for Letham Quarry. The crossing had a hut on the west side of the line (labelled S.B. on Ordnance Survey maps). There was a dwarf lever frame here.
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Letham Quarry level crossing was where a private road crossed the Arbroath and Forfar line. This view looks to Arbroath. There was a gate box on the ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
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This was a level crossing with the public road to Waulkmill. The crossing had a gatekeeper and hut on the west side of the line (labelled S.B. on Ordnance Survey maps). A dwarf lever frame was installed on the north side of the crossing in 1909.
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This was the public level crossing at Waulkmill, where the public road crossed the line to reach the Wauk Mills of Letham Bleach Works. There was a ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
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This was the location of a siding to Waukmills Bleachfield (different spelling). Today the location is known as Waulkmills. The siding, a headshunt for the mill, made a trailing connection to the southbound line. A short loop ran from the headshunt to the mill with a single line continuing to a turnplate with a siding at right angles going further into the works. The signal box was on the west ...

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A buttressed retaining wall at Waulkmill in a view looking to Guthrie. Wauk Mills of Letham Bleach Works (spelling from OS first edition) was served ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
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This was a linen mill on the Brothock Water, producing yarn. It was a large works about three miles north of Arbroath on the east side of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway and served by a siding which approached from a reversing spur to the west and ran into the works via a short loop and a turnplate. It was owned by John Hay of Letham Grange House. These works were originally waulk ...

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This was a station with two staggered platforms. The northbound platform was north of the level crossing on the west side, with the goods yard to the east (served from the north), and the southbound platform to the south of the crossing on the east side. A footbridge, south of the road, crossed the line. This had two sets of stairs at its east end (one from the roadway and another from the ...

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Colliston level crossing looking to Guthrie. The station's main platform building was on the left on the far side of the crossing (the back wall and a ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
Colliston looking to Arbroath from the former level crossing. The Arbroath platform, almost entirely intact, is on the left. When the line was singled ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
Colliston from the north west showing the former line. The station site was in the centre, the goods yard being on the left side of the Guthrie bound ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
Looking south at the former Colliston station. ...
Ewan Crawford //
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This was a two platform station with staggered platforms. The northbound platform was slightly south of the southbound platform, the platforms separated by a level crossing. There was a timber footbridge to the south east of the level crossing. A small station building stood on the southbound platform, the building being replaced at least once. There was a grounded carriage alongside.
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This view looks to Guthrie from the site of the level crossing at the former Leysmill station. On the right was the Arbroath bound platform (the ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
Leysmill, showing the overgrown former Guthrie bound platform on the left in a view looking to the level crossing. ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
Looking north west away from Leysmill, a short distance away from the former station. Out of shot, to the left, was Leysmill Quarry which was served ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
Much of the trackbed between Leysmill and Colliston is walkable, a walk with the strong pleasant smell of gorse. In common with the rest of the old ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
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This quarry, which predated the railway, was served by a short line which ran west from Leysmill station. The station's goods yard acted as a headshunt for the branch. The line also served a small brick works, the Leysmill Brick and Tile Works.
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This signal box controlled access to Border Quarry, on the north/east side of the railway. There was a long private siding running from the southbound line, with which it made a trailing connection. This served the north part of the quarry and had a headshunt which served the southern part. There was a public siding on the south/west side of the line, making a trailing connection to the ...

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Stump of a signal post on the north/east side of the line at Border Quarry siding. The box closed back in 1936 when the sidings were lifted and ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
View south east of the site of Border Siding, with the stump of the signal on the left. The box was closed in 1936 when the line was singled, the up ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
Ballast remains on the trackbed in the cutting to the north west of Border Quarry and siding. It remains along a fair proportion of the line, it was ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
This is the view from the buffer end of the public siding at the Border Signal Box (which was behind the camera). The main lines were to the immediate ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
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This quarry was on the north/east side of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway, which served it with a siding making a trailing connection to the southbound line. Border Signal Box controlled the signalling.
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View south east over the Arbroath and Forfar Railway. Running down the left side of the line was the Border Quarry and on the right side was Legaston ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
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This quarry was on the south/west side of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway, which served it with a siding making a trailing connection to the northbound line. Border Signal Box controlled the signalling. There were tramways within the quarry. It was soon eclipsed by the larger Border Quarry on the north side of the line.
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This junction had a very chequered history - opening and re-closing several times. This junction was between the 1848 Aberdeen Railway and the Forfar to Arbroath line (the 1839 Arbroath and Forfar Railway). The junction allowed trains to run from Dundee East and Arbroath to Aberdeen. Both lines meeting at the junction were double track. Catchpoints on the Forfar route protected ...

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Aberdeen Railway
A view of Friockheim Junction looking north west. The course of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway was from bottom centre to top left. The Aberdeen ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
Looking south at Friockheim Junction. The Aberdeen Railway came in from the left to meet the Arbroath and Forfar. Since this photographs was taken, in ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
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This station was originally on the Arbroath and Forfar Railway built to the 5'6'' gauge. After control passed to the Aberdeen Railway the line was converted to standard gauge and doubled, a part of the line becoming a portion of the West Coast Main Line. This was a two platform station, partly built on an bridge over a road with a goods yard at the south or east end consisting of two sets ...

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Friockheim station had staggered platforms. The hump of the Forfar bound platform is on the right in this view. It straddled the A933 and only the ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
Friockheim station in September 1967, with the remains of a Guy lorry awaiting departure. The station straddled the A933 but by this time the bridge ...
Douglas Blades 02/09/1967
A postcard view of Friockheim viewed from the south. The rather curious appearance of the top left corner is due to an overly keen philatelist who ...
Ewan Crawford Collection //
Looking east at the former Friockheim station where the railway crossed the roadway on an overbridge. ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
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Although the site of Guthrie station, just to the west of the junction, has been largely landscaped (except for some buildings and a loading bank), the junction remains recognisable.
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Aberdeen Railway
Guthrie Junction looking west towards Guthrie station. The route of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway (1838) ran from bottom centre into the distance. ...
Ewan Crawford 11/04/2023
The Forfar - Arbroath goods photographed passing through Guthrie Junction behind a CR 0-4-4T on 6 April 1958. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/04/1958
Looking east at Guthrie Junction. The original Arbroath and Forfar route to Arbroath was to the right and the Aberdeen Railway was to the left. The ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
44934 piloting 73008 past Guthrie Junction on up Granite City. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/07/1953
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This was a junction station opened on the route of the former 1838 Arbroath and Forfar Railway for the opening of the 1848 Aberdeen Railway. Guthrie Junction was to the east.
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A signal post was mounted within the boundary wall at Guthrie station. The view is to the west with the station on the right. By the wall was an ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
Arbroath-Forfar local. C.R. 15195 at Guthrie Junction. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/05/1949
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This is a small attractive railway bridge, a single arch over a private driveway, in use from 1838. It is west of the former Guthrie station and south of Guthrie Castle. The line crossed over the main entry to the castle. The bridge is listed 'B'. The bridge is castellated with small octagonal towers and the emblem of the Guthrie family on a tablet. A lodge was also built. (A similar ...

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Guthrie Gate is a turreted railway bridge which carried the Arbroath and Forfar over the drive to Guthrie Castle (see 62962). It even features a ...
Ewan Crawford 11/04/2023
This was the view east of the trackbed at Guthrie Gate, a combined attractive entry gateway and bridge crossing the access road to Guthrie Castle, in ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
The Guthrie Gate seen in 2021. It is difficult now to imagine this once carried a main line. ...
John Yellowlees 05/06/2021
Detail on Guthrie Gate showing the Guthrie family coat of arms. ...
Craig Seath //1982
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This level crossing was located half a mile east of Auldbar Road station. The double track main line crossed over the road and there was a railway cottage on the north side of the line, directly east of the crossing. This cottage still stands and has a bay window which overlooked the line with a clear view west and east.
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Milldens level crossing from the trackbed to the west, now a footpath. The crossing keeper's cottage was on the north side of the line. The bay window ...
Ewan Crawford 11/04/2023
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This was a two platform station by Balgavies Loch. The platforms were to the west of a road overbridge and the goods yard was to the east. The low platforms were linked by a footbridge, removed before line closure. A large timber building was on the westbound platform and smaller building on the eastbound.
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Clearly considerable effort has been put into preserving the former signal box at Auldbar Road since the line closed in 1967. This view looks west ...
Ewan Crawford 10/04/2023
Looking out from a small surviving building at Auldbar Road to the platforms. The number of the overline road bridge can be seen, number 217. This ...
Ewan Crawford 11/04/2023
Looking east from Auldbar Road with one of the loading banks on the right. There are stretches of the line where the ballast is in such good condition ...
Ewan Crawford 10/04/2023
Looking west at Auldbar Road. The goods station was on this side of the road overbridge and the passenger platforms beyond, at the east end of ...
Ewan Crawford 11/04/2023
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This was a gatekeeper's cottage located between Auldbar Road (to the east) and Clocksbriggs (to the west) stations. The private level crossing was directly to the west. The cottage still stands.
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View west at Wiel Staves Cottage, a former gatekeeper's cottage between Balgavies Loch and Rescobie Loch. The crossing was beyond the building. ...
Ewan Crawford 11/04/2023
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This was a private level crossing towards the east end of Rescobie Loch, between Auldbar Road (to the east) and Clocksbriggs (to the west) stations. There was a hut directly to the east. The crossing may not have been original and probably provided access to the south side of the loch.
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There was a private level crossing at the east end of Rescobie Loch, giving access to the lochside from the south. This view looks east towards the ...
Ewan Crawford 10/04/2023
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This was a private level crossing towards the west end of Rescobie Loch, between Auldbar Road (to the east) and Clocksbriggs (to the west) stations. The crossing gave access to a boat house on the south side of Rescobie Loch.
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A private road crossed the Strathmore main line at the west end of Rescobie Loch. A bridge over a minor watercourse has been removed along with a ...
Ewan Crawford 18/05/2023
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This was a private level crossing north of Reswallie House, between Auldbar Road (to the east) and Clocksbriggs (to the west) stations.
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A private road crossed the Strathmore main line directly east of a bridge, seen here, over the Lunan Water at Reswallie. The view looks east. ...
Ewan Crawford 11/04/2023
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This was a two platform station on the Strathmore main line with the main station building on the northbound platform and a level crossing at the west end. There had been a footbridge at the west end of the station.
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Several LMS pulleys survive near the former Clocksbriggs station, mostly in long grass and tricky to find! ...
Ewan Crawford 10/04/2023
View looking east to Clocksbriggs with the Second World War oil depot sidings on the left and main line on the right. ...
Ewan Crawford 10/04/2023
Much of the former Arbroath and Forfar Railway still has dry stane dykes down either side, which seem to have been used in preference to fences. The ...
Ewan Crawford 11/04/2023
Overview of Clocksbriggs looking west showing the tree-lined route of the former Strathmore main line. Clocksbriggs station can be seen in the ...
Ewan Crawford 11/04/2023
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This oil depot was west of Clocksbriggs station on the north side of the line. A set of sidings on the north side of the line served the depot. These were approached by reversal over the level crossing to the east.
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This was a public level crossing between Forfar North Junction and Clocksbriggs station. The railway crossed the road on an oblique angle, a gatekeeper's cottage being to the east of the crossing between the two.
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Bowman's Level Crossing was east of Forfar where a minor road crossed the Strathmore main line. There was a gatekeeper's cottage (since replaced with ...
Ewan Crawford 11/04/2023
Very few telegraph poles have been left standing east of Forfar on the former Strathmore main line. This one is located between Forfar North Junction ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2023
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At Forfar North Junction the routes west to Forfar [1st] (Playfield) and Perth diverged and the routes east to Aberdeen and Broughty Ferry diverged. The Arbroath and Forfar Railway (arriving here in 1839), Scottish Midland Junction Railway (1848) and Dundee and Forfar Direct Railway (1870) met here.
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Dundee and Forfar Direct Railway
Scottish Midland Junction Railway
View north above the Forfar-Broughty Ferry line looking to Forfar North Junction. The Arbroath and Forfar Railway is on the right. ...
Ewan Crawford 18/07/2023
View looking south on the line approaching Forfar from Broughty Ferry showing the base of a signal, just under a mile south of the junction. ...
Ewan Crawford 18/07/2023
View south of the line about a mile south of Forfar North Junction. A quarry encroaches on the tracked (note private quarry road passing under the ...
Ewan Crawford 18/07/2023
This long bridge crossed over the Strathmore Main Line east of Forfar station. The view looks east, away from the station, towards Forfar North ...
Ewan Crawford //1996
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The Arbroath and Forfar Railway crossed Market Street/Station Road on the level at an angle on its approach to the Forfar terminus at Playfield. A ...
Ewan Crawford 11/04/2023
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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 ...

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Forfar's first proper shed was built on the south side of Market Street close to the Whitehills Level Crossing. There were several buildings, ...
Ewan Crawford 18/07/2023
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This was the terminus of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway in Forfar. In 1848 the station was replaced by Forfar [2nd] on the opening of the Scottish Midland Junction Railway and the re-gauging of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway.
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