Archaeology Notes

Event ID 761377

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO45SE 155 4593 5136

For adjacent railway yard, see NO45SE 97. For engine shed and repair works (NO 4617 5183), see NO45SE 96.

This intermediate station on the Perth - Kinnanber Junction - Aberdeen ('Strathmore') line of the former Caledonian Rly was opened on 2 August 1848 by the Aberdeen Rly. It succeeded an earlier station of the Arbroath and Forfar Rly, and closed to regular passenger traffic on 4 September 1967.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 April 1999.

R V J Butt 1995.