View looking W showing train approaching with original station building on right and level crossing in foreground
SC 712713
Description View looking W showing train approaching with original station building on right and level crossing in foreground
Date 25/7/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 712713
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 west end of the station from the south-east, looking across the level crossing at the west end of the later station, with the signal box on the left, and part of the original Dundee and Arbroath station on the right. The train was typical of the Glasgow and Edinburgh to Aberdeen expresses of the time. 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 H35/69/47/0
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