Caledonian Railway (Brechin)

Caledonian Railway (Brechin)

The Caledonian Steam Railway (Brechin) Ltd is a private limited company formed by a group of steam railway enthusiasts, the Brechin Railway Preservation Society, with the object of operating a railway service on the former Caledonian Railway line between Brechin and Montrose, Angus, Scotland. This line was closed for passenger traffic during the early 1950s with final closure occurred by British Rail in 1981.

The line has now been re-instated and preserved for around 4 miles (6.4 km) between Brechin railway station and Bridge of Dun railway station and since 1993 trains have run at weekends during the summer as well as on special occasions at other times of the year. The two railway stations have also been refurbished.

Although the line originally went all the way to Montrose, which is still a station on the main rail network, there are currently no immediate plans to link the Brechin line back into the main rail network, (as the section at Hillside through onto Kinnaber Junction close to Montrse is now sadly redeveloped, sadly making it unlikely for the preserved railway to reconnect to the national network at all).

However this is still hope of seeing (as a long term aim which would only require the re-instatement of a short length of track) the "CSR Brechin" extend a further 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) to as far as (Dubton for Hillside), (to where a new station would be proposed adjacent to a car park, alongside Dubton Road), bringing upto a total of 7+1⁄2 miles (12.1 km) in length.

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