Fairmuir Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Fairmuir Junction (1885-1965)

Opened on the Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway).
Opened on the Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway).

Description

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 original course of the line.

A signal box opened in 1887, set back some way from the junction lines. There was a loop (for passenger and goods trains) on the line north and another on the Fairmuir Goods approach. A headshunt from the the goods yard accessed Kings Cross Bakery. The box opened around the time the extension east to Maryfield Goods opened (1890).

A siding to the south ran west to an industrial estate from the 1950s, serving Kingsway Siding. One siding served the BX Plastic Works. Approach was from the north.

The Newtyle line closed to passengers in 1955 and ceased to be a through route when Auchterhouse [2nd] became goods terminus in 1958.

To Auchterhouse [2nd] closed in 1965 and the line closed completely in 1967.

Tags

Junction


Nearby stations
Crossroads
Offset at Back of Law
Baldovan and Downfield
Lochee
Lochee West
Dundee Ward Road
Dundee Trades Lane
Baldragon
Dundee East
Dundee West
Dundee
Magdalen Green
Dundee Esplanade
Ninewells Junction [Station]
Liff
Kings Cross Bakery
Engineering Works
Stobsmuir Junction
Kingsway West Siding
Kingsway [Tram]
Fairmuir [Tram]
[Downfield Junction]
Fairmuir Goods
Clepington Road [Tram]
Siding
Offset at Back of Law Workshops
Camperdown Jute and Hemp Works
Lochee Goods
Law Tunnel
Tourist/other
Dundee Law
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Rhubarb Junction


Due to the planting of rhubarb by a signalman by the signal box during the Second World War, and its continuing to grow for many years afterwards, the junction acquired the name 'Rhubarb Junction'.


Chronology Dates

  /  /1861Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Deviation from Ninewells Junction to by Fairmuir Junction opened. Liff, Victoria [Dundee], Lochee stations opened.
  /  /1884Dundee Suburban Railway
Agreement for operation with the Caledonian Railway and North British Railway. The line was to have run east from south of Fairmuir Junction past the north side of Dundee Law to turn south beyond the Eastern Necropolis and join the line near Camperdown Junction creating a loop via Dundee Tay Bridge [Station]. Stations were proposed at Kings Cross Road, Coldside, Maryfield and Craigie. A number of lines following a similar course were proposed, none were built.
  /  /1884Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway)
Fairmuir Junction to Fairmuir Goods authorised. (Also known as Stobsmuir.)
01/10/1885Fairmuir and Maryfield Goods (Scottish Central Railway)
Fairmuir Goods branch opened from Fairmuir Junction.
  /04/1898Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)
Loop opened at Fairmuir Junction on the Newtyle [2nd] route. Loop opened at Liff.
25/01/1965Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Auchterhouse [2nd] to Fairmuir Junction (excluded) closed to goods and completely.
06/11/1967Dundee 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.

Books


Dundee and Newtyle Railway Including the Alyth and Blairgowrie Branches (Oakwood Library of Railway History)
Getting around Old Dundee
Railways of Dundee (Oakwood Library of Railway History)