Bridge of Dun railway station
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Bridge of Dun is a privately owned station in Angus
Angus
Angus is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Dundee City...

, and home to LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0
LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 is a class of steam locomotive designed for light mixed traffic.-Design:...

 No. 46464. The adjacent platforms and line are independently operated as a preserved railway by the Caledonian Railway (Brechin)
Caledonian Railway (Brechin)
The Caledonian Steam Railway 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...

 Ltd. They also operate preserved diesel locomotives including Type 2 examples - 26014 and 27024.

History

The station was originally opened by the Aberdeen Railway
Aberdeen Railway
The Aberdeen Railway was a railway that ran mainly along the North East coast of Scotland south from Aberdeen to on the Arbroath and Forfar Railway. There were branches to Montrose and Brechin...

, on the what became the northern stage of the Caledonian Railway
Caledonian Railway
The Caledonian Railway was a major Scottish railway company. It was formed in the early 19th century and it was absorbed almost a century later into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, in the 1923 railway grouping, by means of the Railways Act 1921...

 Route to the North from London to Aberdeen.

Sources

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