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Baldragon_railway_station Latitude and Longitude:

56°30′11″N 3°00′47″W / 56.50300°N 3.01311°W / 56.50300; -3.01311
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Baldragon
Baldragon Station site (1974)
General information
Location Angus
Scotland
Platforms?
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Dundee and Newtyle Railway
Pre-grouping Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
16 December 1831Station opens
1 January 1917Station closed
1 February 1919station reopens
10 January 1955Station closes [1]

Baldragon railway station served the village of Baldragon in the Scottish county of Angus. Services were provided by the Dundee and Newtyle Railway.

History

Opened by the Dundee and Newtyle Railway and absorbed into the Caledonian Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

References

Notes

  1. ^ Butt (1995)

Sources

  • Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN  978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC  60251199. OL  11956311M.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN  978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC  22311137.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN  978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC  228266687.
  • Station on navigable O. S. map Near Kirktown of Strathmartine

External links

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Baldovan   Caledonian Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Railway
  Dronley

56°30′11″N 3°00′47″W / 56.50300°N 3.01311°W / 56.50300; -3.01311