Montrose, Railway Place, 1-4 Caledonian House
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Montrose, Railway Place, 1-4 Caledonian House
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Montrose Harbour Station; Montrose Station (C.r); Montrose, Caledonian Rly Station; Montrose, Former Station Including Boundary Walls
Canmore ID 36257
Site Number NO75NW 43
NGR NO 71708 57396
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36257
- Council Angus
- Parish Montrose
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO75NW 43 71708 57396
Not to be confused with (North British Rly.) Montrose Station (NO 7118 5798), for which see NO75NW 42.00.
NMRS REFERENCE
Opened 17/9/1849 ( Aberdeen Railway)
Closed 30/4/1934.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
(Location cited as NO 717 574). Montrose Harbour Station, opened 1848 by the Aberdeen Rly. Formerly a single-platform terminal station. The main building is a 2-storey, 3-bay structure with 1-storey, 4-bay wings. The ground-floor openings are all round-headed. Part now occupied as dwelling house. All other buildings demolished.
J R Hume 1977.
This station was the Montrose terminal of the Caledonian Rly. branch lines serving Strathmore and the Mearns. Opened (as Montrose Station) by the Aberdeen Rly. on 17 September 1849, directly superceding an unlocated predecessor which was opened by the same company on 1 February 1848. It was closed to regular passenger traffic by the London, Midland and Scottish Rly. on 30 April 1934, trains being diverted to the present station (NO75NW 42.00).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 September 2000.
R V J Butt 1995.
