Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway)
Introduction
This was a goods only line in the north of Dundee.
Dates
| / /1884 | Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway) Maryfield Goods extension of the Fairmuir Goods branch authorised. (Also known as Clepington for Clepington Road to the south.) |
| / /1884 | Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway) Fairmuir Junction to Fairmuir Goods authorised. (Also known as Stobsmuir.) |
| 01/10/1885 | Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway) Fairmuir Goods branch opened from Fairmuir Junction. |
| / /1889 | Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway) Extension of time for the Maryfield Goods branch. |
| 01/03/1890 | Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway) Maryfield Goods branch opened from Stobsmuir Junction (Fairmuir Goods). |
| 06/11/1967 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway) Ninewells Junction (excluded) to Fairmuir Junction to Fairmuir Goods and Maryfield Goods closed to freight. |
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Fairmuir to Maryfield
Fairmuir Junction to Maryfield Goods. Opened 1890.
This was the junction between the deviation of the Dundee and Newtyle, built by the Scottish Central Railway (1861) and the branch to Fairmuir Goods (1885). The deviation replaced the original route via the Law Incline and Law Tunnel from Dundee Ward Road with a new route round the west side of the Law via Lochee. A little to the north of the junction the deviation met the ...
More detailsSee also
Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Ewan Crawford //1996
Ewan Crawford //1998
This was a goods yard in the north of Dundee, north of the Law. It opened in 1885. The branch to the yard crossed the course of the original Dundee and Newtyle Railway just west of the goods yard on its approach to Fairmuir Junction.
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