Orchar Park News Today

A train was travelling at 84mph when it hit a tree in Broughty Ferry, rail crash investigators have revealed.

The train has been targeted by vandals near Dundee Railway Station more than two weeks after it was damaged during Storm Gerrit.

Scotrail defended the safety record of the type of train involved in a crash with a tree in Broughty Ferry during Storm Gerrit.

Network Rail has rejected claims the level crossing barriers at Broughty Ferry failed on Wednesday morning.

A tree crashed on to a train in Broughty Ferry, at Orchar Park, during Storm Gerrit on Wednesday afternoon.

A 4-bed Broughty Ferry home complete with plenty of characterful wood panelling is up for sale for offers over £499,000.

Vandals have covered the walls of an abandoned bowling green pavilion at Orchar Park in Broughty Ferry with graffiti including a swastika.

Calls have been made to save empty bowling pavilions in Dundee. The remaining council-run sites were closed last year.

Updated: March 12, 2021, 5:31 pm © Gareth Jennings/DCT Media Damaged pop-up police officer, Jeane. A pop-up, cardboard police officer, aimed at slowing down speeding drivers, has been vandalised “beyond repair”. Cardboard police officers armed with speed cameras have popped up across Dundee and further afield aimed at encouraging motorists to slow down. Pop-up ” Jeane” in Broughty Ferry, before she was vandalised. The community-funded traffic calming measure at Broughty Ferry has b...