Tay Rail Bridge
The third station, built for the Caledonian Railway in 1889–1890, was designed by Thomas Barr. It was of red sandstone and built in the Scottish Baronial style. Scottish architectural historian Charles McKean, and his co-authors of a book on Dundee' lost architectural heritage, described the building as "overly bombastic in nature" and suggest it was built as "a gesture of defiance" by the Caledonian Railway in response to the arrival of an alternate route in Dundee run by its bitter rival the North British Railway via the Tay Rail Bridge. It was demolished upon closure. Trains ran to Manchester, Liverpool and London, while local traffic took passengers to Gleneagles, Crieff and Blairgowrie. At its height, the station employed scores of people and handled 15,000 tons of minerals (mostly coal for Dundee's factories).