DUNDEE AND ARBROATH RAILWAY, railway 16| miles long from Dundee, along the coast past Broughty Feriy and Carnoustie, to Arbroath, in Forfarshire. It was opened in 1839, and it became the joint property of the North British and the Caledonian Companies at 1st February 1880. It connects at Broughty Ferry with the railway communication through Fife ; sends off, from a point near its north-east end, a goods branch to Carmylie ; and connects at Arbroath with the railways thence to Forfar and Montrose.
DUNDEE AND FORFAR DIRECT RAILWAY, railway 17| miles long, from the Dundee and Arbroath line at Broughty Ferry northward to Forfar. It was opened in 1870.
DUNDEE AND NEWTYLE RAILWAY, railway 16| miles long, from west end of Dundee north-westward to Newtyle, in Forfarshire. It was originally a single truck line, 10J miles long, opened in 1831 ; it left the town on a long steep inclined plane, and by a tunnel through Dundee Law ; it was altered by the formation of two new portions, the one 7f miles long directly onward, opened in 1859, the other 6 miles long to Lochee, opened in 1861 ; and it was designed near the end of 1879 to acquire a new portion, starting from the south end of the tunnel through Dundee Law, and proceeding by the old line into junction with the new one near Downfield.
DUNDEE AND PERTH RAILWAY, rail-way 21^ miles, from Dundee west-south-westward to Perth. It was opened in 1847 ; it traverses luxuriant and picturesque tracts along the Tay, to the vicinity of Perth ; and it there crosses the river on a very long grand viaduct in form of segment of a circle with the central part on an island. Both this railway and the Dundee and Newtyle were amalgamated in 1863 with the Scottish Central, and went with that system in 1865 to the Caledonian.
DUNDEE AND STANLEY RAILWAY, railway, projected in August 1880, to strike from the Dundee and Perth line at Ninewells, to go by Millhill, Abernyte, Pit-kindy, Bandirran, and Balbeggie, and to join the Highland line at Stanley, in Perthshire.
DUNDELCHACK, lake, about 6 miles long and 1| mile broad, in Daviot parish, Inverness-shire.
DUNDONALD, village, castle, and parish in north-west of Kyle, Ayrshire. The village stands 4J miles south-east of Irvine, presents an interesting appearance, and has a post office under Kilmarnock, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 141 scholars. The castle stands on an eminence adjacent to the village ; appears to have been erect-ed in 12th century ; was the residence of several of the Stewart princes, and the death place of Robert II. ; is now a large, strong, thick-walled ruin ; and has given the title of earl since 1669 to the family of Cochrane. The parish contains also Fullarton suburb of Irvine, the town of Troon, and the villages of Old Rome, Shewalton, and Loans. Its length is 7 miles; its greatest breadth about 6j miles; its area 12,365 acres. Real property in 1879-80, 47,353. Pop., quoad civilia, 8086; quoad sacra, 1509. The surface is divided from north to south into two nearly equal sections by the low range of Claven Hills and by Shewalton Moss. The western section is nearly a dead flat, bounded by the Firth of Clyde ; and the eastern section is an assemblage of gentle eminences, embellished with wood. The seats are Fairlie, Shewalton, Newfield, Aucharis, Curreath, Hillhouse, and Fullarton, the last belonging to the Duke of Portland. Established and Free churches are at Troon and Fullarton, and a United Presbyterian church is at Troon. 7 schools for 832 scholars are in the parish, and 1 of them and a classroom for 210 are new.
