The new owners then planned a major extension, largely prompted by the imminent arrival of the Brechin and Edzell District Railway.

[4] The changes started in 1895 with the expansion of the goods department on land purchased by the company from the Town Council in Strachan's Park.

[5] They station passenger accommodation was then extended between 1897 and 1898 to designs by Thomas Barr, District Engineer of Perth.

[6] A passenger service from Forfar due in at 9.00am failed to stop at the platform and crashed through the terminus and ended up on the roadway leading to the goods station.

521, a six-wheeled locomotive with a 6 wheeled tender, 30 loaded cattle trucks and a brake van lost control of his train when descending the incline towards the station.

[10] Passenger services on the Forfar-Brechin and Brechin-Bridge of Dun-Montrose line were withdrawn to save £11,000 per annum (equivalent to £400,000 in 2023).