the harbour" at Arbroath, with a passenger station at Catherine Street. The line ran broadly north to the kirk at St Vigean's (where the present-day line diverges right), and then continued north-west to Friockheim and then west to Guthrie and Forfar. The Forfar station was in the angle between Playfield (now Victoria Street) and Bailiewellbrae Road (now Carsburn Road). The line rose about 221 feet from Arbroath to Forfar: the steepest gradient was 1 in 130, and the curvature was gentle. The length of the line was a little over 15 miles. Although opened as a single line, the formation was made for a double line. In common with the neighbouring Dundee and Arbroath Railway, it had a track gauge of 5 ft 6in. The track was formed of parallel (i.e. not fish-belly) rails of 48 lbs per yard on timber cross-sleepers. The turntables were 12 feet in diameter. (This refers to wagon turntables, commonly used at this date for siding connections.) Apart from the terminal stations, there were six intermediate stations at Colliston, Leysmill, Friockheim, Guthrie, Auldbar Road, and Clocksbriggs, though at the start, "no great expense had been incurred in the erection of intermediate station-houses". Linking with the Dundee and Forfar Railway As has been described, both the A&FR and the Dundee and Forfar Railway had powers to build branches to Almericloss, intended as a joint goods depot and exchange point. In fact the A&FR line passed immediately adjacent, but the D&AR line hugged the sea front at Arbroath, and that company failed to build the authorised connecting line. In 1839 a horse omnibus was provided between the two passenger stations, and some attempt was made to co-ordinate the passenger timetables so as to allow connections. The following year it was agreed to make the connecting line. The D&FR station was at Ladyloan about where Gayfield Park is today. The A&FR had reached the docks from the beginning, and the connection was made by extending the D&FR a short distance eastwards and upgrading the A&FR line. There were no through passenger trains; in fact it is not clear that passenger trains ran on the line; and if they did whether D&AR trains ran to the A&FR station or A&FR trains to the D&AR station. The 1843 Bradshaw shows the two lines running with separate passenger timetables and a note in the D&AR section that "Passengers wishing to proceed,