Disused railway lines and closed stations in Angus

154 miles of disused railway
50 closed stations
7 stations open today
20 named lost lines

Angus has 154 miles of disused railway and 50 closed stations, against 7 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 7.1 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Kinnaber Junction and Stanley Junction Line, with 46 miles of its route inside Angus.

See Angus’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 154 miles of lost railway in Angus break down as 118 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 34 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 1.5 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Angus

20 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Angus; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Kinnaber Junction and Stanley Junction Line	46
Arbroath and Forfar Railway	17
Dundee & Forfar Branch	15
Forfar and Brechin Railway	13
Brechin and Edzell District Railway	5.0
Carmyllie Railway	4.9
Kirriemuir Branch	3.2
Dundee & Newtyle Railway	3.0
The Railway Path	2.5
Waulkmills Nature Trail	2.1
Railway Walk	2.0
Arbroath St Vigean's Junction to Guthrie	1.5
Friockheim to Glasterlaw Line	1.2
Dundee and Newtyle Railway	1.2
Balbeuchly Incline	1.1
Dubton to Montrose Branch	1.1
Alyth Fork Line	0.6
Elliot Nature Trail	0.4
Nature Trail	0.4
Auchterhouse Station	0.3

Closed railway stations in Angus

All 50 closed and former stations in Angus, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Angus

7 stations in Angus still have a train service. The busiest are Arbroath (362,306 a year), Montrose (317,406 a year), Carnoustie (137,292 a year), Monifieth (43,194 a year) and Balmossie (1,708 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Dundee, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Highland.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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