Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway

Introduction

This line extended the Dundee and Arbroath Railway to Dundee from near Craigie. Most of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway had been relatively easy to build across farmland close to the coast. Here a very large cutting was required at Craigie and long embankment required across the coastal margin to reach Dundee from the east. In addition this portion of the line, although built by the railway company, had to be handed over to Dundee Harbour Trustees ownership who would then rent it back to the railway. Further there were disputes about access to the sea from properties which previous had sea access, now blocked by an embankment. This was an expensive and difficult line. It was first opened from Craigie to another temporary station Roodyards. Then extended to Trades Lane. Trades Lane was to be rebuilt considerably at a later date, and relocated a little to the east, to become Dundee East. There were connections to the Harbour Trustees lines which served the docks and those which extended west to Dundee West through the streets.




Dates

03/06/1839Dundee and Arbroath Railway Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway
The Dundee and Arbroath Railway is extended west from Craigie to Roodyards by the Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway (Dundee Harbour Trustees). With the extension opened the temporary Craigie terminus closed.
02/04/1840Dundee and Arbroath Railway Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway
Roodyards to Dundee Trades Lane opened. Roodyards closed.
  /  /1848Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Dundee Junction line authorised to link the Dundee and Perth Railway to the Dundee and Arbroath Railway (Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway). (Not built.)
  /  /1851Dundee and Perth Railway Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Proposed Dundee Junction line to link the Dundee and Perth Railway to the Dundee and Arbroath Railway (Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway) abandoned.
14/12/1857Dundee and Arbroath Railway Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway
Dundee East opened and Dundee Trades Lane closed.
  /  /1870Caledonian Railway
Caledonian Railway gains running powers over the Dundee Harbour Trustees lines between Buckingham Junction (Dundee and Perth Railway) and Camperdown Junction (Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway).
  /  /1900Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway
Authorised to purchase land to widen line at Roodyards.
  /02/1901Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Stannergate opened.
  /  /1907Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway
The Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway is authorised to purchase the Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway. In addition it is authorised to widen the line.
01/05/1916Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Stannergate closed.
05/01/1959Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway
Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Dundee East to Camperdown Junction closed to passengers.
  /  /1967Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Dundee East closed to freight.
  /07/1982Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway
Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Dundee Harbour sidings closed.
  /09/2007Trades Lane and Carolina Port Railway
Scottish Enterprise Tayside carries out study of opening a railfreight terminal at the Dundee docks.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Craigie was a temporary terminus consisting of a platform erected by the Broughty Ferry Road level crossing near Craigie House. The house was to the north.
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Dundee and Arbroath Railway


When the line was built this was countryside and seashore with very little immediately nearby. Craigie House was to the north. By 1900 some development had begun and was encouraged by the opening of the station. The temporary terminus Craigie was to the east by a level crossing. The road was lifted onto a bridge as traffic increased.
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Looking east towards the site of Stannergate station (closed 1916) between Dundee and Broughty Ferry in 1981, with an Aberdeen - Kings Cross HST ...
John Furnevel 11/08/1981
An Aberdeen bound train heading east from Dundee in the summer of 1981 approaching the site of the former Stannergate station. Photographed from the ...
John Furnevel 11/08/1981
A Class 47 takes a Glasgow - Aberdeen train away from Dundee towards Stannergate in 1981, passing Carolina Port power station on the left. The ...
John Furnevel 11/08/1981
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This signal box was on the south side of the line east of Camperdown Junction and 'Dundee East No 2 Gates' box and west of the site of the very short lived terminus Roodyards terminus.
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This large mineral depot was to the north of Dundee East station, on the north side of East Dock Street which was crossed by a level crossing. The yard was approached from the east.
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This junction was east of Dock Street Tunnel, Dundee. It was the junction between the Dundee to Arbroath line and the later lines opened with the Tay Bridge.
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Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
Access point to Dundee East, latterly a cement depot, still workable but overgrown. ...
Gordon Steel 25/05/2023
The morning Leeds to Aberdeen service has run for many years and gone through a variety of operators. This LNER one has just passed Camperdown ...
David Panton 10/10/2018
158718 has just cleared Camperdown level crossing, shortly after leaving Dundee station on 27 May 1992 with a service for Aberdeen. ...
John Furnevel 27/05/1992
Camperdown sidings (more or less the old platforms lines of Dundee East) have gone from 'NIRU' to 'OOU' in Track Diagrams but have recently had ...
David Panton 13/11/2019
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This was a terminus in the east of Dundee. It was originally the terminus of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. The station became redundant as local lines closed and longer distance services transferred to Dundee station which was on a through line. With the opening of Dundee station, Dundee East was left on a short branch from Camperdown Junction.
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A pushmi-pullyu with traincrew in both ends at the Blue Circle sidings by Camperdown Junction. The cement terminal was built on the site of Dundee ...
Ewan Crawford //1989
B1 4.6.0 61263 at Dundee East on Arbroath train. ...
G. H. Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. 16/05/1957
In November 2019 I idly wondered what the plans were for the disused sidings at the site of Dundee East station as they had recently been devegetated ...
David Panton 04/03/2020
This ultimately unnecessary terminus of the D&A Joint railway was a couple of hundred yards from Camperdowm Junction where the D&A was joined by the ...
David Panton 31/05/2016
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