View from E showing ENE and SSE fronts of original station building with level crossing in foreground

Description View from E showing ENE and SSE fronts of original station building with level crossing in foreground

Date 25/7/1969

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 712711

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Footbridge & Level Crossing, Old Station House, Station, Station Road, Carnoustie, Angus The first station on this site was opened in 1838 by the Dundee & Arbroath Railway, a 5 ft 6 in gauge line. This railway was regauged to standard gauge in 1847. From 1880 to 1948 the line was jointly run as the Dundee & Arbroath Joint Railway, who rebuilt the station probably in the 1880s. This shows the original Dundee and Arbroath Railway station building from the south-east, looking across the level crossing at the west end of the later station. There was apparently originally an awning in the angle. This building, typical of the earliest Scottish railway stations, had survived as a house. Carnoustie was an outpost of the Dundee flax industry, but in the later 19th century developed as a seaside resort, specialising in golf, The rebuilt station was on a scale reflecting the heavy summer traffic it handled. The platform buildings were replaced in about 1985 by much more modest structures. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/46/37

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/712711

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