Waulkmill Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Waulkmill Signal Box (-1936)Opened on the Arbroath and Forfar Railway.
Description
This was the location of a siding to Waukmills Bleachfield (different spelling). Today the location is known as Waulkmills. The siding, a headshunt for the mill, made a trailing connection to the southbound line. A short loop ran from the headshunt to the mill with a single line continuing to a turnplate with a siding at right angles going further into the works. The signal box was on the west side of the line, opposite the headshunt. Just south of the box was a trailing crossover between the lines.
The box was reduced to an unstaffed ground frame in 1908. A porter would travel from Colliston to operate the ground frame. The box closed in 1936 when the line was singled between Letham Mill Siding and Leysmill, the southbound line being lifted. The works was closed by the 1950s. The railway closed in 1959 when Letham Mill Siding to Colliston closed (although it was retained as a long siding for storing redundant wagons until 1965).
Tags
Signal box
| Nearby stations Letham Grange Colliston Arbroath Leysmill Arbroath (Catherine Street) Cauldcots Cuthlie Arbroath (Lady Loan) Arbirlot Arbroath West Links Hospitalfield Halt Elliot Junction Denhead Inverkeilor Friockheim | Waukmills Bleachfield Waukmill Level Crossing Box Letham Quarry Letham Quarry Signal Box Letham Mill Siding Letham Mill Arbroath ^The Dens^ Siding St Vigeans Junction Dens Iron Works Arbroath Shed Arbroath Shed [1st] Tourist/other Letham Grange Hotel St Vigeans Stones and Museum St Vigeans Level Crossing Colliston Castle |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 19/05/1936 | Arbroath and Forfar Railway Waulkmill Signal Box closed. |
Books
 The Arbroath and Forfar Railway: The Dundee Direct Line and the Kirriemuir Branch (Oakwood Library of Railway History) |
