Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dundee and Forfar Railway

Dundee and Forfar Railway, a railway in the S of Forfarshire, from Dundee north-north-eastward to Forfar. It was authorised, in July 1864, on a capital of £125,000 in shares and £40,000 in loans; is 17 ¼ miles long; and was opened in Nov. 1870. It belonged, at first, to the Scottish North-Eastern Company; and passed, with the rest of the North-Eastern system, to the Caledonian. It gives direct communication between Dundee and Forfar, in lieu of the circuitous route by way of Arbroath; and connects, at Forfar, with the lines thither from respectively Arbroath and Perth. A plot of 9 acres for its use at Forfar was purchased, on the eve of its opening, from the Forfar Town Council.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Angus ScoCnty
Place: Dundee

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