Leysmill

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Leysmill (1848-1955)

Opened on the Arbroath and Forfar Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station with staggered platforms. The northbound platform was slightly south of the southbound platform, the platforms separated by a level crossing. There was a timber footbridge to the south east of the level crossing. A small station building stood on the southbound platform, the building being replaced at least once. There was a grounded carriage alongside.

Goods facilities, sidings and a goods shed were at the north end opposite the southbound platform. The signal box was on the northbound platform alongside the level crossing. A mineral line ran west from the north end of the station to Leysmill Quarry, using the goods yard on the south/east side of the station as a headshunt.

Leysmill was, very briefly, the terminus of the line opening in November 1838 before extension to Forfar in December.

The line was singled in 1936 with Leysmill becoming a passing loop. To the north the northbound line was lifted and to the south the southbound.

The station closed to passengers in 1955 and the line ceased to be a through line to St Vigeans Junction with the closure of the line south of Letham Mill Siding. The railway closed altogether in 1965, the signal box surviving until closure.

A railway cottage remains, which was on the west side of the line south of the crossing, in use as a house.

Tags

Station staggered platforms

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
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Chronology Dates

24/11/1838Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Opened partly with horse haulage. Stations opened at: Arbroath (Catherine Street), Colliston and Leysmill.
04/12/1838Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Leysmill to Forfar officially opened. Stations opened at: Leysmill, Friockheim, Guthrie, Auldbar Road, Clocksbriggs, Forfar [1st].
13/09/1936Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Leysmill to Guthrie Junction singled.
27/12/1936Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Singled between Letham Mill Siding and Leysmill. Colliston becomes a gate box.
05/12/1955Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Arbroath to Forfar [2nd] local passenger trains withdrawn. Colliston, Leysmill, Friockheim, Guthrie, Clocksbriggs stations closed. St Vigeans Junction to Guthrie Junction closed to passengers.
23/01/1965Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Colliston and Leysmill signal boxes closed. Colliston to Guthrie Junction (excluded) closed to goods and completely.

Books


The Arbroath and Forfar Railway: The Dundee Direct Line and the Kirriemuir Branch (Oakwood Library of Railway History)