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Dundee And Perth Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![27007 arrives at Perth with a Dundee-bound train in the 1970s.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //]](/images/32000/32500.jpg "Perth")
![Dundee - Perth express on Tay Viaduct headed by 5P. 4.6.0 44703<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 10/06/1950]](/images/20000/20864.jpg "Tay Viaduct")
![L.N.E. Shire 4.4.0 62706 <i>Forfarshire</i>. Dundee West sheds.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/07/1950]](/images/9000/9203.jpg "Dundee West MPD")
![CR Pickersgill 0.6.0 57653. Dundee West sheds.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/07/1950]](/images/9000/9204.jpg "Dundee West MPD")
![LNE Shire 4.4.0 62706 <i>Forfarshire</i> heads a Glasgow express at Dundee (West).<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/07/1950]](/images/9000/9206.jpg "Dundee West")
![Pickersgill 4.4.0 54489 crossing the Tay at Perth on express from Dundee.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 27/10/1951]](/images/9000/9085.jpg "Perth Tay Viaduct")
![B1 no 61278 of Tay Bridge shed prepares to leave Dundee West station with the 4.35pm train for Perth in April 1958. The station was originally opened by the Dundee & Perth Railway as Dundee Union Street in 1847, becoming Dundee West in 1866. Closure came in 1965. <br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 10/04/1958]](/images/22000/22708.jpg "Dundee West")
![CR 123 preparing to leave Perth station on 10 May 1958 with an excursion to Dundee.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 10/05/1958]](/images/32000/32777.jpg "Perth")
![Preserved ex-CR 123 stands at Perth on 10 May 1958 with an afternoon excursion to Dundee.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 10/05/1958]](/images/32000/32903.jpg "Perth")
![Reid class J37 0-6-0 no 64618 stands with a black 5 alongside the covered loading dock in Dundee's ex- Caledonian goods yard on 29 July 1958 [see image 20937]. Both locomotives look ready for the road, with the J37 (which spent most of its life at Thornton Junction) looking exceptionally clean. This has prompted suggestions that it had either been prepared to handle a railtour, or was on its way back to Thornton from a visit to Inverurie works.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/07/1958]](/images/27000/27202.jpg "Dundee West")
![Reid class D30 4-4-0 no 62426 <I>Cuddie Headrigg</I> is one of a number of abandoned steam locomotives awaiting disposal in the former mineral yard sidings at Dundee West in July 1959. The D30 was not in fact <I>officially</I> withdrawn by BR from 63B Stirling South shed until June the following year, one month prior to being cut up at Cowlairs works. No doubt BR's Accounting Department had its own good reasons for registering these <I>official</I> dates. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /07/1959]](/images/27000/27398.jpg "Dundee West")
![Lineup of condemned locomotives in the sidings alongside Dundee West mineral yard on 28 July 1959. Nearest the camera is Reid ex-NBR <I>Scott</I> class 4-4-0 no 62426 <I>Cuddie Headrigg</I> whose official BR withdrawal date from Stirling South of June 1960 appears to have been several months after it arrived here. 62426 was eventually cut up at Cowlairs Works in July of 1960. Standing on the eastern horizon is Dundee's Queen's Hotel.<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/07/1959]](/images/25000/25982.jpg "Dundee West")
![Scene in the sidings alongside Dundee West mineral yard in July 1959 with class J69 no 68535 one of several <I>stored</I> locomotives present. In the background stands the former Seabraes Sawmill of Thos Winton Ltd located at no 16 Roseangle.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/07/1959]](/images/23000/23618.jpg "Dundee West")
![D34 no 62484 <I>Glen Lyon</I> stands with other <I>stored</I> locomotives in the mineral yard alongside Dundee West shed in July 1959. The locomotive was subsequently reallocated to 64G Hawick shed where it continued to operate until final withdrawal in November 1961. [See image 31787]. Disposal was through Arnott Young, Old Kilpatrick, in May 1963.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/07/1959]](/images/28000/28841.jpg "Dundee West")
![On a summer's day in 1961 NBL Type 2 D6109 and an unidentified sister locomotive bring the 10.00 Dundee West - Glasgow Buchanan Street to a halt at Platform 1 in Perth station. A year later the notoriously unreliable NBLs were displaced from express passenger operation, and all had been withdrawn from service by 1971.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1961]](/images/35000/35564.jpg "Perth")
![44719 enters Perth in August 1963 with a Dundee train.<br><br>[John Robin 14/08/1963]](/images/6000/6824.jpg "Perth")
![73154 crosses the Tay into Perth Princes Street with a train from Dundee.<br><br>[John Robin 14/08/1963]](/images/6000/6825.jpg "Perth Princes Street")
![A busy scene at Perth in August 1965 as Stanier Black 5 No 44718 pulls in with a Dundee - Glasgow train while a down service boards at the opposite platform. A type 2 diesel locomotive is standing between the trains on the centre road.<br><br>[G W Robin 28/08/1965]](/images/21000/21340.jpg "Perth")
![Standard class 5 no 73146 brings the 10am Dundee - Glasgow Buchanan Street train over the Tay at Perth in 1965. The locomotive was one of the batch fitted with Caprotti valve gear and allocated to St Rollox shed.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/10/1965]](/images/20000/20345.jpg "Perth")
![The 15.40 Dundee - Glasgow Queen Street train with class 29 No. 6123 in charge makes its scheduled stop at Perth station on 9th April 1970. The all-over yellow ends did nothing for the looks of this particular class. [See image 32645] This was the first of the class to be re-engine and be converted from a class 21 to 29 but unlike the other re-engined locomotives did not receive a headcode display.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 09/04/1970]](/images/32000/32588.jpg "Perth")
![Glasgow - Aberdeen train crossing the Tay at Perth behind D361 in 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/4000/4572.jpg "Tay Viaduct")
![Looking southwest over Dundee West MPD and yard on 30 March 1975. The shed had closed in 1958 but was reopened in 1960 and used as a DMU depot until 1987. <br><br>[John McIntyre 30/03/1975]](/images/12000/12272.jpg "Dundee West")
![Clayton D8616 stands at Dundee West on 30 March 1975, more than 3 years after its official withdrawal from Polmadie. The locomotive had been used on this occasion for rerailing practice. D8616 made its final trip, to J McWilliams yard Shettleston for disposal, some 4 months later in August 1975.<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/03/1975]](/images/17000/17052.jpg "Dundee West")
![A class 101 Metro-Cammell 3 car DMU on a Dundee - Perth service in April 1979 is seen looking east from Riverside Drive as it approaches the site of Ninewells Jct. The junction which was on the Invergowrie side of the road bridge that takes Riverside Drive over the railway. With thanks to Bill Dryden for clarification of the location.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1979]](/images/20000/20415.jpg "Ninewells Junction")
![A class 27 passes under Riverside Drive between Invergowrie and Dundee in April 1979 with a train from Glasgow Queen Street.<br><br>[John McIntyre 11/04/1979]](/images/20000/20592.jpg "Invergowrie")
![A Class 40 with an express passenger service hurries north between Perth and Dundee near Invergowrie in April 1979.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 11/04/1979]](/images/20000/20697.jpg "Invergowrie")
![A signalman hard at work in the long departed Buckingham Junction signal box, to the west of the current Dundee station. (Photograph taken in 1980 during an Aberdeen University Railway Society trip to Dundee MPD).<br><br>
(Update - The grey jacketed signalman is Mr Charles Dand.)<br><br>[John Williamson //1980]](/images/17000/17894.jpg "Buckingham Junction")
![View over the yards and shed at Dundee West in May 1980. In the background a Type 2 is passing with a Glasgow Queen Street - Dundee train. On the right is the former steam shed, at this time in use as a DMU depot, finally closing in 1987.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/05/1980]](/images/4000/4780.jpg "Dundee West")
![View south over a misty Firth of Tay in May 1980 as a Type 2 hauled Glasgow Queen Street - Dundee service runs past Dundee Central box on the approach to the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/05/1980]](/images/18000/18735.jpg "Dundee West")
![A Glasgow - Dundee train runs past the yards at Dundee West on 26 May 1980 as it nears its destination. In the background the Tay Bridge disappears into the mist.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/05/1980]](/images/53000/53996.jpg "Dundee West")
![06005 and 06006 standing alongside Dundee West diesel depot on 24 October 1981. [See image 4780]<br><br>[Colin Alexander 24/10/1981]](/images/22000/22199.jpg "Dundee West")
![Afternoon local train from Arbroath terminating at Perth in 1985.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1985]](/images/10000/10844.jpg "Perth")
![The signal box at Barnhill, Perth, photographed on 15 March 1986.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 15/03/1986]](/images/24000/24633.jpg "Barnhill (Perth)")
![Lamps still needed placed behind signalposts at Barnhill in 1988. Here the line from Dundee drops down to a single track to cross the River Tay on the approach to Perth.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8965.jpg "Barnhill (Perth)")
![The Dundee platforms at Perth. The central road has now been taken out of use.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8983.jpg "Perth")
![The closed Princes Street station at Perth. This was a two platform station and one building still stands on the disused platform.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8998.jpg "Perth Princes Street")
![A 477 passes the closed Perth Princes Street station on its way from Glasgow to Aberdeen.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/9000/9001.jpg "Perth Princes Street")
![477 for Aberdeen heading to Barnhill over the Tay Viaduct at Perth.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/9000/9002.jpg "Perth Tay Viaduct")
![DMU 107 732 on a local service on the approach to Perth over the Tay Viaduct.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/9000/9004.jpg "Perth Tay Viaduct")
![Westbound DMU crossing the River Tay at Perth.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/9000/9005.jpg "Perth Tay Viaduct")
![Aberdeen - Glasgow 47 hauled train approaching Invergowrie in 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/18000/18055.jpg "Invergowrie")
![A westbound DMU on the level crossing at Longforgan in 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/48000/48367.jpg "Longforgan")
![Class 26 no 26041 shunting the yard at Dundee West on a grey 18 January 1989. View is east, with the Tay Road Bridge visible in the background.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 18/01/1989]](/images/44000/44788.jpg "Dundee West")
![Driver Ronnie Guthrie poses next to a Perth - Dundee service DMU which is about to set off on 25 January 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 25/01/1989]](/images/27000/27506.jpg "Perth")
![A view from an eastbound DMU approaching Inchture Level Crossing in January 1989. The box was subsequently demolished. The driver's newspaper provides an alterative destination blind!<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 25/01/1989]](/images/32000/32373.jpg "Inchture")
![About to run through the closed station at Perth Princes Street in October 1989. View from an Aberdeen bound train with 47717 at the rear.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 18/10/1989]](/images/48000/48435.jpg "Perth Princes Street")
![Northbound over Errol LC in August 1992<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/08/1992]](/images/11000/11122.jpg "Errol")
![26042 heads east from Perth towards Barnhill in August 1992.<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/08/1992]](/images/11000/11413.jpg "Tay Viaduct")
![Class 158 crossing the Tay approaching Perth station in August 1992 with a Dundee - Glasgow service.<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/08/1992]](/images/11000/11729.jpg "Tay Viaduct")
![A 158 crosses the Tay at Perth on a southbound service in August 1992.<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/08/1992]](/images/16000/16270.jpg "Tay Viaduct")
![Looking towards Dundee from Errol level crossing in August 1992. <br><br>[John McIntyre 10/08/1992]](/images/17000/17059.jpg "Errol")
![A westbound service passes the station at Errol and approaches the level crossing in August 1992.<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/08/1992]](/images/25000/25317.jpg "Errol")
![BR Express Sprinter no. 158741 passes through the closed station at Errol in August 1992 en route to Dundee and Aberdeen.<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/08/1992]](/images/40000/40186.jpg "Errol")
![Aberdeen train passing Perth Princes Street and about to run onto the bridge over the Tay in August 1992.<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/8/1992]](/images/15000/15948.jpg "Perth Princes Street")
![158 745 with a Glasgow service at Invergowrie in July 1998<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/18000/18016.jpg "Invergowrie")
![Looking south across the LC at Longforgan on 15 March 1999. The former station building stands on the left.<br><br>[David Panton 15/03/1999]](/images/27000/27929.jpg "Longforgan")
![66198 passes Magdalen Green with a short freight from Mossend to Aberdeen in the summer of 2001.<br><br>[Bill Roberton
//2001]](/images/54000/54264.jpg "Magdalen Green")
![The signal box at Longforgan, with a distinctly unloved look about it in September 2005. <br><br>[John Furnevel 02/09/2005]](/images/10000/10938.jpg "Longforgan")
![Former Longforgan station and forecourt in September 2005 looking south towards the level crossing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/09/2005]](/images/12000/12905.jpg "Longforgan")
![The level crossing at Longforgan in the Carse of Gowrie looking north east towards Dundee in September 2005. Beyond the signal box, on the other side of the crossing, is the remains of Longforgan station (closed to passengers in 1956) the main building of which is now a private residence.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/09/2005]](/images/40000/40101.jpg "Longforgan")
![Attractively refurbished Dundee & Perth Railway crossing keeper's cottage (and fence) at Templehall, just west of the site of Longforgan station in the Carse of Gowrie. Photographed in December 2005 looking north west towards Castle Huntly. <br><br>[John Furnevel 02/12/2005]](/images/61000/61540.jpg "Longforgan")
![Looking east from the signal box and crossing. Platforms and footbridge still in existance.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2006]](/images/10000/10907.jpg "Errol")
![Station house at Errol.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2006]](/images/12000/12789.jpg "Errol")
![Looking towards Dundee from under the footbridge at Invergowrie.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2006]](/images/14000/14744.jpg "Invergowrie")
![Invergowrie looking west towards Longforgan from the footbridge. An old longer platform can be seen to the left.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2006]](/images/14000/14745.jpg "Invergowrie")
![A Dundee - Glasgow Queen Street service calls at Perth in June 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2006]](/images/9000/9957.jpg "Perth")
![Grangemouth - Aberdeen WHM containers passing through Perth station in June 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2006]](/images/9000/9960.jpg "Perth")
![An Edinburgh - Dundee train leaving Perth in June 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2006]](/images/10000/10040.jpg "Perth")
![Train for Dundee about to leave platform 2 at Perth in 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2006]](/images/10000/10044.jpg "Perth")
![An Edinburgh - Dundee train arrives at Perth platform 2 on 15 June 2006, while in the background an Inverness - Glasgow Queen Street service is leaving platform 4. <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2006]](/images/45000/45826.jpg "Perth")
![A down train passing the remains of Perth Princes Street station in the summer of 2006, some forty years after closure. Seen from the west end of the Tay Viaduct. [See image 34217]<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/07/2006]](/images/9000/9931.jpg "Perth Princes Street")
![Glasgow - Dundee service crossing the Tay at Perth, view north in July 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/07/2006]](/images/9000/9956.jpg "Perth Tay Viaduct")
![Having just crossed the River Tay, an afternoon Aberdeen - Glasgow Queen Street service now crosses a Street with the same name in July 2006. The train is about to pass through the remains of the former Perth Princes Street station [see image 9931] which stands behind the Fergusson Gallery on the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/07/2006]](/images/34000/34217.jpg "Perth Princes Street")
![An afternoon Dundee - Glasgow Queen Street service crosses the Tay Viaduct at Perth in July 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/07/2006]](/images/45000/45563.jpg "Perth")
![2006 view of platforms and dangerous footbridge.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /08/2006]](/images/11000/11405.jpg "Errol")
![Road v Rail. The A90 Perth to Dundee dual carriageway accompanies the D & PR. The old Glencarse station is at the top of the frame. Photographed from St Madoes Road bridge.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /08/2006]](/images/11000/11408.jpg "Glencarse")
![An NX liveried turbstar is heading for Perth<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/08/2006]](/images/10000/10493.jpg "Errol")
![Bad news from the DoT in September 1985.<br><br>[John Furnevel /09/2006]](/images/10000/10966.jpg "Errol")
![Remains of Princes Street Station. This was an interim terminus before Perth General opened, thereafter it remained open until 1966. Viewed from the East.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/12000/12526.jpg "Perth Princes Street")
![Swallows in summer nest in this platform shack at Errol. By the way there is a reel(sic) Earl of Errol!!<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/12000/12868.jpg "Errol")
![The listed station building at Errol, operating as a craft shop and tea room in September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/09/2006]](/images/10000/10965.jpg "Errol")
![Errol station looking south towards the level crossing in September 2006. As well as the internal coffee shop there are also tables located behind the fenced off area on the platform itself. <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/09/2006]](/images/10000/10967.jpg "Errol")
![Looking west over the level crossing at Errol on 4 September 2006. A right turn after the signal box leads into the old yard and the former station itself. The old station building is currently operating as a craft shop and tea room. <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/09/2006]](/images/10000/10968.jpg "Errol")
![Looking across the platforms at Errol station in September 2006. The date on the building is 1847.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/09/2006]](/images/11000/11394.jpg "Errol")
![A late morning Edinburgh - Dundee service runs through the deserted platforms of Errol station (closed September 1985) in the Carse of Gowrie on 4 September 2006. Photograph taken leaning (carefully) over the verandah fence of the tea rooms occupying the 1847 station building on the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/09/2006]](/images/49000/49383.jpg "Errol")
![A Dundee - Edinburgh service at speed on Inchyra level crossing in the Carse of Gowrie on 6 September 2006. The cottage nameboard a reminder of why it was originally built.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/09/2006]](/images/11000/11487.jpg "Inchyra")
![a 170 for Dundee slowly enters the single track metal viaduct accross the River Tay. To the left is the Fergusson Art Gallery.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/09/2006]](/images/10000/10832.jpg "Perth Princes Street")
![Looking towards Dundee from Invergowrie station - September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/09/2006]](/images/11000/11119.jpg "Invergowrie")
![An early afternoon Dundee - Glasgow Queen Street service skirts the north shore of the Tay on the approach to Invergowrie. View east in September 2006, with Ninewells Hospital standing on the hillside in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/09/2006]](/images/44000/44983.jpg "Invergowrie")
![A Glasgow - Dundee train skirts the north shore of the Firth of Tay in September 2006. The DMU is about to pass below the bridge carrying the A85 Riverside Avenue around a mile and a half from its destination. Ninewells Hospital stands on the hill in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/09/2006]](/images/37000/37661.jpg "Dundee")
![Walnut Grove. Dundee bound 170. The building was HQ until recently of Stagecoach UK. Now occupied by a whisky company. If you have any Grouses, then one is for me. Hic..<br><br>[Brian Forbes /10/2006]](/images/12000/12067.jpg "Perth")
![Turbostar passing Kinfauns, bound for Dundee.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 31/10/2006]](/images/11000/11993.jpg "Kinfauns")
![The signal box on the down side approaching Errol station, looking east from the level crossing in November 2006. The surviving station building and dodgy footbridge are visible in the left background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/11/2006]](/images/11000/11065.jpg "Errol")
![The former Errol station looking north from the level crossing in November 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/11/2006]](/images/11000/11272.jpg "Errol")
![A morning Dundee - Edinburgh Waverley service runs over the level crossing at Errol in November 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/11/2006]](/images/31000/31849.jpg "Errol")
![View south of Inchcoonans level crossing near Errol. To the right an extant sawmill, and to the left behind the crossing cottages, a brickworks.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2007]](/images/16000/16666.jpg "Errol")
![1513 service to Glasgow is belled away.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 06/02/2007]](/images/13000/13497.jpg "Perth")
![The Tay Bridge line gradually descends from Esplanade station to meet the Perth line on the south approach to Dundee. See the road bridge centre right.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/02/2007]](/images/13000/13725.jpg "Buckingham Junction")
![Crossing house at level crossing at Inchture on the Perth & Dundee Rly.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/03/2007]](/images/14000/14187.jpg "Inchture")
![Dundee to Perth turbostar passing Grange LC east of Errol. Unit 170434.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/03/2007]](/images/14000/14188.jpg "Errol")
![Rear of station building at Inchture, not Redcar.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/03/2007]](/images/14000/14201.jpg "Inchture")
![170426 crosses the Tay Viaduct, Perth, in 2007.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 31/03/2007]](/images/59000/59886.jpg "Tay Viaduct")
![A turbostar on a Glasgow to Aberdeen service passes over the Wee Tay Bridge at Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/04/2007]](/images/14000/14442.jpg "Tay Viaduct")
![Eastbound 170 halfway across the <I>wee Tay bridge</I>. The river splits in two for Moncrieff Island seen under the piers.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/04/2007]](/images/14000/14529.jpg "Tay Viaduct")
![Platform 2 at Perth on 1 May 2007, with 170 426 about to depart with a Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen service.<br><br>[David Panton 01/05/2007]](/images/20000/20726.jpg "Perth")
![Looking north at a turbostar heading east over the Wee Tay Bridge.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 08/05/2007]](/images/14000/14911.jpg "Tay Viaduct")
![Longforgan station house next to the line at the level crossing, looking NE<br><br>[Brian Forbes /06/2007]](/images/16000/16655.jpg "Longforgan")
![View north near the former site of Magdalen Green station, with the ever present bandstand looking on.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15499.jpg "Magdalen Green")
![Much to crow about. Four wheel carriage of antiquity? Found in the carpark opposite Magdalen Green on Riverside Drive Dundee.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/06/2007]](/images/15000/15959.jpg "Magdalen Green")
![Longforgan cabin at the level crossing.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /08/2007]](/images/16000/16613.jpg "Longforgan")
![Templehall crossing keepers house to the north of main line, west of Longforgan.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/08/2007]](/images/16000/16058.jpg "Templehall LC")
![View east from Templehall to Longforgan crossing and station house.<BR/>The western outskirts of Dundee are seen behind the subject.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/08/2007]](/images/16000/16059.jpg "Longforgan")
![Express for Perth rattles through the crossing at Errol<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/08/2007]](/images/16000/16063.jpg "Errol")
![170413 between Longforgan and Templehall level crossings heading to Perth. Longforgan signal box is seen middle right.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 03/08/2007]](/images/16000/16075.jpg "Longforgan")
![Silver and Gold. Silver 67029 arriving at Perths golden lit Dundee platform, with <I>The Northern Belle</I>.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/16000/16644.jpg "Perth")
![An afternoon Dundee - Glasgow Queen Street service approaches the site of the former Magdalen Green station on 20 September 2007. In the background maintenance work is underway at the north end of the Tay Bridge.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/09/2007]](/images/34000/34920.jpg "Magdalen Green")
![<i>'Oh Most beautiful to be seen, beside Dundee and the Magdalen Green...'</i>. An Aberdeen - Glasgow service passes the site of the former Magdalen Green station on 20 September.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/9/2007]](/images/16000/16762.jpg "Magdalen Green")
![View south over Inchyra AHB level crossing on the Dundee & Perth line on 27 February 2008, with <I>'Crossing Cottage'</I> standing on the right.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/02/2008]](/images/18000/18139.jpg "Inchyra")
![North view of Perth city centre showing the River Tay and of course the Wee Tay Brig. A wooden bridge was opened here by the D&PR in 1849 so that trains could reach Perth, having originally terminated at Barnhill. The first bridge was twice washed out by flooding and, circa 1865, this steel girder replacement was opened - and still stands ...apart from a few scares.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/03/2008]](/images/18000/18256.jpg "Perth")
![Some well known photographers standing to the south of The Tay Bridge, Perth, on 13 April as <I>The North Briton</I> crosses the river.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/04/2008]](/images/18000/18769.jpg "Tay Viaduct")
![An express 170 in FSR livery races through the short platforms of Invergowrie heading for Dundee.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2008]](/images/19000/19127.jpg "Invergowrie")
![The 1351 Dundee to Glasgow Turbostar about to pass through Invergowrie. In the background are the high flats and hospital at Ninewells.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/05/2008]](/images/19000/19055.jpg "Invergowrie")
![1215 ASDA intermodal heading east along the banks of the River Tay at Seggieden. The Sidlaw Hills with a field covered by a crop sheet are seen behind the DRS class 66 locomotive.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/06/2008]](/images/19000/19327.jpg "Kinfauns")
![Classic view from St Leonards Bridge of a Dundee train standing in Perths platform 2. First ScotRail 170456 forms the 1240 hourly Glasgow to Aberdeen express.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/06/2008]](/images/19000/19347.jpg "Perth")
![A Glasgow - Aberdeen hourly train passing Glencarse with the Antique Fair and Garden Centre with an excellent restaurant to the right of the A90 dual carriageway.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/06/2008]](/images/19000/19436.jpg "Glencarse")
![The ruinous Inchture station is passed by a First ScotRail 170 forming the 1240 Glasgow - Dundee. The station closed to passengers in 1964<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/06/2008]](/images/19000/19401.jpg "Inchture")
![170 427 on an Aberdeen - Glasgow service enters the single line section prior to crossing the Tay Viaduct at Perth on 24 July 2008. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 24/07/2008]](/images/19000/19974.jpg "Perth")
![170 427 on an Aberdeen - Glasgow service crossing the Tay Viaduct at Perth on 24 July 2008. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 24/07/2008]](/images/19000/19986.jpg "Perth")
![A one off. Old footbridge between the platforms at Errol (closed 1985) - only the metal framework survives.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 29/08/2008]](/images/20000/20486.jpg "Errol")
![The Eastbound platform at Errol in August 2008. The 1847 station house is now in use as an excellent cafe. Not open Monday & Tuesday.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 29/08/2008]](/images/20000/20494.jpg "Errol")
![Old D&PR barrow seen at Errol, though the paintwork is not original.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2008]](/images/20000/20811.jpg "Errol")
![An Aberdeen to Glasgow express approaching Perth along the north bank of the Tay in September 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2008]](/images/21000/21586.jpg "Kinfauns")
![View of the Tay Viaduct curving east out of Perth. 22 September 2008.<br>
<br><br>[Fraser Cochrane 22/12/2008]](/images/21000/21944.jpg "Tay Viaduct")
![Crossing the Tay at Perth on 16 June 2009. Aberdeen bound 170 417 runs onto the viaduct shortly after passing the site of Perth Princes Street station.<br><br>[David Panton 16/06/2009]](/images/24000/24290.jpg "Perth Princes Street")
![A First ScotRail class 170 runs alongside the River Tay at Kinfauns betweeen Dundee and Perth in September 2009. Pictured from The top of Elcho Castle.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/09/2009]](/images/25000/25620.jpg "Kinfauns")
![Dundee holding sidings looking west on the 27th of March, 2010. Dundee (Tay Bridge) station is located in a cutting to the left and Dundee West was located to the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/03/2010]](/images/33000/33371.jpg "Dundee West")
![70013 and 61994 are hauled out of Perth with <I>The Great Britain III</I> on 13 April bound for Dundee.<br><br>[John Robin 13/04/2010]](/images/28000/28534.jpg "Perth")
![Tayside Biodiversity Festival, May 2010 - platform scene at Perth.<br><br>[John Yellowlees /05/2010]](/images/2000/2716.jpg "Perth")
![170 421 pulls into Platform 2 at Perth on 31 May 2010 with a Glasgow to Aberdeen service.<br><br>[David Panton 31/05/2010]](/images/29000/29197.jpg "Perth")
![Looking north east along the Dundee platforms at Perth station from St Leonards Bridge on 31 May 2010. 170 420 is restarting from platform 1 with an Aberdeen - Glasgow Queen Street service.<br><br>[David Panton 31/05/2010]](/images/29000/29216.jpg "Perth")
![The Tay railway bridge at Perth. Photographed on 11 June 2010 from the west bank looking towards Dundee.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/06/2010]](/images/29000/29332.jpg "Tay Viaduct")
![The old carriage near Magdalen Green [see image 15959] is now surrounded by a patio and forms part of the new <I>Bridgeview Station</I> Restaurant. Seen here on 5 July 2010. [See news item]<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/07/2010]](/images/29000/29674.jpg "Magdalen Green")
![An Aberdeen - Glasgow Queen Street service rolls across the Tay viaduct on a wet and windy 22 October 2010 on the approach to Perth station, where it is scheduled to arrive at 14.11.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 22/10/2010]](/images/31000/31195.jpg "Perth Tay Viaduct")
![The former Glencarse station (1847 - 1956) in March 2011.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /03/2011]](/images/33000/33225.jpg "Glencarse")
![Dusk begins to fall at Perth on 26 March as 170430 passes Barnhill and approaches the Bridge over the Tay with the 16.37 Aberdeen - Glasgow Queen Street.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/03/2011]](/images/33000/33358.jpg "Barnhill (Perth)")
![DRS 66423 with the 4A13 Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal, seen on 8 April near the site of the former Magdalen Green station on the western approach to Dundee.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 08/04/2011]](/images/33000/33575.jpg "Magdalen Green")
![Dundee is of course well outside the SPT boundary, but visits from an SPT liveried 170 are not uncommon: especially combined with a Scotrail liveried 158 on Sunday. This may well be what is in mind for this set seen at Dundee West sidings on Saturday 9 April 2011. In the immediate foreground is the Tay Bridge line and beyond it, the way to Perth.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 09/04/2011]](/images/33000/33583.jpg "Dundee West")
![The 12.41 Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen edges across the Tay Viaduct in Perth on 15th April 2011<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven 15/04/2011]](/images/35000/35303.jpg "Perth Tay Viaduct")
![170 452 passes the closed station at Errol on 12 April 2012 with the 12.42 Aberdeen - Glasgow Queen Street.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/04/2012]](/images/38000/38382.jpg "Errol")
![The Dundee & Perth Railway undertook in 1849 to build two branch lines from its main route to villages bypassed, one to Inchture Village and the other to Inchmichael. The former carried passengers and goods until the end of 1916 while the latter, though largely completed, was abandoned without carrying any traffic. This northward view in 2012 shows the stone-lined cutting half way along the route from Errol. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/04/2012]](/images/38000/38451.jpg "Errol")
![DRS 66305 passes Errol signalbox with the 4A13 Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal service in April 2012.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/04/2012]](/images/38000/38486.jpg "Errol")
![DRS 66305 passes the former Perth Water Works (now an art gallery) with the 4A13 Grangemouth - Aberdeen Intermodal train conveying both Asda and Tesco containers. The train has just passed the site of Perth's Princes Street station [see image 9931] and is about to cross the Tay Viaduct.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/10/2012]](/images/40000/40671.jpg "Perth Tay Viaduct")
![The 10.38 Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen St crossing the River Tay on 16 August 2013 on the approach to Perth station.<br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 16/08/2013]](/images/44000/44260.jpg "Perth Tay Viaduct")
![The 0941 Glasgow Queen Street to Aberdeen service, formed by a Class 170 Turbostar, leaves Perth station on 16 August and heads for the Tay Viaduct, passing the church of St Leonards-in-the-Field. <br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 16/08/2013]](/images/44000/44270.jpg "Perth")
![Close up of Dundee West: Dundee West yard, seen on 29th November. Dundee is one of the largest cities in Britain with no rail freight facilities - but development of an intermodal railhead at Dundee West has not yet materialised, in part due to the City council's opposition to rail container handling adjacent to its 'digital media park'. The wider site formerly hosted a Freightliner terminal, closed in 1987. Dundee station is to the right.<br><br>[David Spaven 29/11/2016]](/images/57000/57892.jpg "Dundee West Sidings")
![Close up of Building 1: Spot the difference from an intermodal railhead - one of the much-promoted new office buildings on the 'digital media park' adjacent to Dundee West yard is constructed of three dozen 40 foot containers. Oh the irony.<br><br>[David Spaven 29/11/2016]](/images/58000/58037.jpg "Dundee West Sidings")
