Also known as the Arbroath and Montrose Railway.
This line is open. The line is part of the East Coast Main Line and is double track except for a bridge to the south of Montrose station. The line was owned by the North British Railway and was in effect a continuation of that companys Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway) line northwards towards Aberdeen.
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This was the main line of the route running from St Vigeans Junction, just north of Arbroath, to Kinnaber Junction, north of Montrose.
This junction, north of Arbroath station, was where the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway (later North British Railway) met the Arbroath and Forfar Railway (later Caledonian Railway).
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This two platform station was located east of Letham Grange for which it is named, there being very little else in the immediate area.
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This was a two platform station. The goods yard was on the east side, approached from the north.
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This was a two platform station. A signal box remains open here, on the west side of the line.
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This was a two platform station on a double track line. When opened it was a station with a loop on a single track line. The station house was on the northbound platform and there were waiting rooms on each platform.
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This signal box controlled the point where the double track line became single track on the approach to Montrose from the south. This is needed as the Rossie Viaduct and South Esk Viaduct are both single track. Once north of these the line reverts to double track.
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This is a 17 arch single track viaduct. It connects Ferryden to Rossie Island crossing the southern of two outlets from Montrose Basin.
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This is a single track 16 span girder viaduct crossing the northern of two channels from Montrose Basin, the southern of which has been infilled. The viaduct links Montrose, to the north, to Rossie Island.
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This is a two platform station. There is a modern station building on the southbound platform.
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This shed was on the east side of Montrose station and approached from the north. ...
More detailsThis junction was to the north of Montrose station. This allowed trains access to Broomfield Junction and the Montrose and Bervie Railway which the North British Railway was to operate and take over.
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This was a two platform station. When the line north from Arbroath to Montrose and Kinnaber Junction was opened this was the location where the line doubled, south of the station, on the approach to Kinnaber Junction. The line was later doubled.
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This is the famous location where the East Coast Main Line and West Coast Main Line routes met until the late 1960s.
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This short branch connected the North British Railway owned lines to the Montrose and Bervie Railway, albeit via a very short section of Caledonian Railway owned line.
This junction was to the north of Montrose station. This allowed trains access to Broomfield Junction and the Montrose and Bervie Railway which the North British Railway was to operate and take over.
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This was the junction between the branch from Dubton to Montrose [CR] of the Aberdeen Railway and the later Montrose and Bervie Railway.
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