The rebuilt Broughty Ferry signal box looks very impressive relocated

to the up platform at the station incorporated into a new restaurant. This makes a marked contrast to the situation fifteen years ago with a very run-down and dowdy station made all the more concerning as it was the oldest station in Scotland still in use, dating from 1838. The signal box is a Caledonian box built in 1887 and was very unusual as it was of a bespoke timber construction. Part of the reason for this was that it had part of the station footbridge passing through its base that must have made the arrangement of the frame room somewhat tricky! After proposals by Network Rail to demolish the station and box were, quite rightly, thrown out by the local council a new plan was devised to take a more sympathetic approach to the redevelopment of the site. One result of this was the dismantling of the box located at the down end of the northbound platform and its rebuilding on the southbound side as seen here.