Bridge Of Dun Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Bridge Of Dun Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bridge Of Dun, Railway Station
Canmore ID 165949
Site Number NO65NE 86
NGR NO 66432 58676
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/165949
- Council Angus
- Parish Dun
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO65NE 86.00 66432 58676 and 66297 58595
Bridge Of Dun Station [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, April 2010.
NO65NE 86.01 NO 66301 58595 Railway Cottages
For adjacent (K6) telephone kiosk, see NO65NE 87.
NMRS REFERENCE
Caledonian Railway. Probably opened 01/02/1848; closed 04/09/1967.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
(Location cited as NO 664 587). Bridge of Dun station, opened c. 1850 by the Aberdeen Railway. Formerly a three-platform through station, with the main building on the up platform. This isa a single-storey, coursed-rubble building with Tudor chimneys. The original awning survives at one end, although a larger platform awning has been added. Now used as a dwelling house.
Nearby is a block of three one-storey and attic railway cottages (NO65NE 86.01).
J R Hume 1977.
This intermediate station on the Perth - Kinnaber Junction ('Strathmore') main line of the former Caledonian Rly was also the junction for that company's branch line to Forfar via Careston. It was opened on 1 February 1848 by the Aberdeen Rly and closed to regular passenger traffic (with the line as a whole) on 4 September 1967.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 July 2000.
R V J Butt 1995.
