Author John Minnis has described demolition of the "wonderful" station building (built between 1889 and 1890) as "perhaps the most tragic loss" of a piece of railway architecture in Scotland.

The station closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 1 May 1965, the last train departing for Glasgow at 8 P.M.[2] It was demolished the following year to make way for a bypass to the new Tay Road Bridge.

[1] Scottish architectural historian Charles McKean, and his co-authors of a book on Dundee's lost architectural heritage, described the building as "overly bombastic in nature" and suggest that 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.

[1] Trains ran to Manchester, Liverpool and London, while local traffic took passengers to Gleneagles, Crieff and Blairgowrie.

[2] At its height, the station employed scores of people and handled 15,000 tons of minerals (mostly coal for Dundee's factories).