The Arbroath and Forfar Railway was an early Scottish railway company authorised by Parliament on 19 May 1836 to connect the port town of Arbroath with Forfar. It opened in stages during 1838 and 1839, running about fifteen miles through intermediate stations including Leysmill, Friockheim and Guthrie, and it was built initially to an unusual 5 ft 6 in gauge before conversion to standard gauge in 1847 to 1848. Despite chronic shortage of capital, the line made an operating profit for its owners. The company was leased to the Aberdeen Railway in 1848 and continued afterward as a financial entity collecting lease payments rather than running trains itself, before being absorbed into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the 1923 grouping of Britain's railways. Most of the original route closed in 1967, though the short stretch between Arbroath station and St Vigeans Junction remains part of the Edinburgh to Aberdeen line today.
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Founded Year SignificanceOne of the early independent Scottish railways later folded into the LMS during the 1923 grouping, a small line that nonetheless ran at an operating profit despite chronic capital shortage. 1 In the Other Atlases
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Founded: 1836 (authorized by Parliament on 19 May 1836)
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it was successful in making an operating profit, but it was always desperately short of capital
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was a railway that connected Forfar with the port town of Arbroath
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The Arbroath and Forfar Railway (A&FR) was a railway that connected Forfar with the port town of Arbroath, in Scotland.
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