B9095 (Cairnie Road, Arbroath)

This article is about the former B9095 in Arbroath.
For the current B9095, also in Arbroath, see B9095.

Heading west along the A933 (former B9095) Cairnie Street

The original B9095 ran to the north of Arbroath. Although the road's history is not fully known due to its short length it is known that the road had gained its route by 1929. However, by the mid-1980s the routes of the B9095 and A933 have been swapped, the present B9095 taking the former route of the A933 into the town centre, whilst the A-road has been rerouted along the original B9095's route to the north of the town.

The route started on the western edge of town, between the cemetery and hospital, where the A933 turned from Forfar Road onto Keptie Road. It followed Cairnie Road and Cairnie Street into the town to meet the B964 at Stobcross. After a short multiplex, the B9095 then continued east to meet the A92 at Hamilton Green, at the top of the High Street. This is explicitly marked on the OS Six Inch map from 1947. However, a few years later, the 1:10,000 sheet from 1959 shows the B9095 terminating at Stobcross, and the continuation is subsequently numbered as part of the B964 on the 1970 sheet. It seems likely that there is slightly more to these changes than the limited snapshots available from these OS maps, but the routes are all too short and urban to be numbered on smaller scale mapping.