Archaeology Notes

Event ID 797135

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO53SE 13.00 centred 5663 3449

NO53SE 13.01 NO 56593 34475 Railway Signal Box

(Location cited as NO 567 344). Carnoustie Station, opened 1838 by the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. A two-platform through station with the main offices on the down platform in a single-storey wooden building with a steel-framed glazed awning supported on cast-iron columns. The down platform building is similar, but its awning is carried on cast-iron brackets.

At the W end is a level crossing, with, beside it, an L-plan rubble cottage, the original station building. A lattice-girder footbridge links the platforms and allows pedestrians to cross the line when the crossing is set for rail traffic.

J R Hume 1976.

This intermediate station on the Dundee-Arbroath portion of the Edinburgh-Aberdeen (main) line of the former North British Rly was first opened by the Dundee and Arbroath Joint Rly on 6 October 1838. The original buildings were situated on the opposite [W] of the level crossing to the present buildings which were built to replace them in about 1900. The station remains in regular use by passenger traffic.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 July 2000.

R V J Butt 1995.

The station buildings have been removed and replaced by bus-type shelters. The L-shaped rubble cottage is still extant at NO 56590 34493.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2007