Kirriemuir Branch (Scottish Midland Junction Railway)
Introduction
This line is closed. It was a single track 3 mile railway which served Kirriemuir and an agricultural area with an otherwise low population. It ran out from Kirriemuir Junction on the Strathmore Main Line. The branch was approached from Forfar [2nd], to the east.
Locations along the line
These locations are along the line.
This was a station, exchange platform and junction. A very low platform stood in the 'V' of the junction with a building, probably a railway employee's house. The platform had one face on the main line and another on the branch. A second short platform was on the southbound main line, it was out of alignment with the main platform being further east. The junction dates from 1855 with the opening ...
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Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Ewan Crawford 14/03/2023
Ewan Crawford 14/03/2023
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1953
This siding served a loading bank. It was approached from the north (the line ran uphill from Kirriemuir Junction) and was on the west side of the line.
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Ewan Crawford 14/03/2023
Colin Harkins 31/08/2006
Colin Harkins 31/08/2006
There were two sidings serving a loading bank at Balmuckety. The sidings were in the east side of the line south of a level crossing where the line crossed the A926. Approach was from the south. A crossing keeper's cottage was at the buffer end of the main siding, just south of the level crossing. The crossing was protected by signals (no box).
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Ewan Crawford 14/03/2023
Ewan Crawford 14/03/2023
This was a terminus built at Wellbank in the east of Kirriemuir, opened in 1855. Latterly it had a main platform, on the north side of the line, with a loop and a short bay on the north side. Sidings were on either side of the line and there was a locomotive shed at the east end Kirriemuir Shed.
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Ewan Crawford 14/03/2023
Ewan Crawford 12/07/2009
Colin Harkins 31/08/2006
