Broughty Ferry Station
Handsome listed station built in 1838 to serve the jute barons of Dundee.
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Broughty Ferry, Dundee City DD5 2DX
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The Dundee & Arbroath railway company received its Parliamentary Act on 19 May 1836 as a 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) gauge railway. Partially opened in October 1838, it was fully operational in April 1840. On 31 August 1848 the Dundee and Perth Railway was authorised by Act of Parliament to lease the company, with the latter being renamed as Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction Company.
In 1862 it was absorbed with the Scottish North Eastern Railway. In 1880 (as a result of an Act of Parliament on 21 July 1879), the line passed jointly to the Caledonian Railway and North British Railway, which in turn became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern Railway.
Until the opening of the first Tay Bridge in 1878, Broughty Ferry was the location of a ferry across the Tay to Tayport, site of one of the earliest examples of a 'roll-on, roll-off' ferry, carrying railway wagons and even carriages. The station now serves the pleasant riverside suburb of Dundee. It is a handsome building, a twin gabled stone house with decorated barge boards adjoining a single storey addition with a slate covered awning on iron brackets and columns.
Recent restoration of the Station saw the removal of the historic footbridge, which now languishes behind the westbound platform. Unmanned, it is listed Grade A.
By road: At intersection of Queen Street, A930, and Gray Street in Broughty Ferry.
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