A small and ruinous building of no architectural merit in the northwest corner of the grounds of King's Cross Hospital (Dundee), Crossroads Station, was one of the oldest railway stations in Scotland. It opened in 1831 next to a level crossing which conveyed the Dundee and Newtyle Railway across lay Clepington Road. The line ran from here through a tunnel under Dundee Law to a terminus on Ward Road. The terrain was such that stationary steam engines were required to haul the carriages and waggons up the steep slopes. The station closed in 1861 when a lengthy diversion was built to the west through Lochee and Ninewells to avoid the troublesome tunnel and Ward Road Station and bring trains into Dundee Railway Station.
Crossroads Station was subsequently converted to domestic use, but has lain abandoned since the 1990s and is owned by Tayside Primary Care NHS Trust (2024). The two-storey stucture was added to the Buildings at Risk Resgister in 2003.
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