Disused railway lines and closed stations in Dundee

Dundee has 12 miles of disused railway and 18 closed stations, against 2 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 9.0 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Dundee and Newtyle Railway, with 2.8 miles of its route inside Dundee.

See Dundee’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 12 miles of lost railway in Dundee break down as 8.8 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 2.0 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 1.1 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 Dundee

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

LineMiles in county
Dundee and Newtyle Railway2.8
Tay Bridge0.9
Dundee & Forfar Branch0.8
Perth Road0.8
East Station0.7
Blackness Road0.5

Closed railway stations in Dundee

All 18 closed and former stations in Dundee, 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 Dundee

2 stations in Dundee still have a train service. The busiest are Dundee (1.8 million a year) and Broughty Ferry (148,586 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

Angus, Fife, 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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