Archaeology Notes

Event ID 800303

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/800303

NO45SE 163 4959 5193

(Location cited as NO 497 519). Clocksbriggs Station, opened 1850 by the Aberdeen Rly. The remains of a two-platform through station with the neat up-platform building still intact and used as a dwelling house. This has two bay windows and a small integral awning. The original rectangulrar block has had a wing added at right-angles.

J R Hume 1977.

This intermediate station on the Forfar-Arbroath secondary line of the former Caledonian Rly was opened (by the Arbroath and Forfar Rly) on 4 December 1838. It closed on 1 January 1917, reopened on 1 June 1919, and finally closed to regular passenger traffic on 5 December 1955.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 August 2000.

R V J Butt 1995.