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Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022. Thomas, John; Paterson, Rev A. J. S. (1984). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. VI Scotland: The Lowlands and the Borders (2nd ed.).
Perth railway station in 2007. Platforms 1 (right) and 2. The station has seven active platforms, but they are split into two distinct sections: [9] Platforms 1 and 2 sit on the eastern side (the old Dundee & Perth Railway part of the station) and are the busiest in the station as they handle the Glasgow to Dundee and Aberdeen trains.
The station avoided the fate of others on the line in the 1950s and 1960s, but by the early 1980s was served by just a handful of services each weekday (and none on Sundays). British Rail issued statutory closure notices for the station in the summer of 1984 and it closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 30 September 1985. [1]
History; Original company: Dundee and Perth Railway: Pre-grouping: Scottish Central Railway Caledonian Railway: Post-grouping: London, Midland and Scottish Railway British Rail (Scottish Region) Key dates; 24 May 1847 () Opened: 1 January 1917: Closed as a wartime economy measure: 1 June 1919: Reopened: 28 February 1966 () Closed
1808 – The Kilmarnock & Troon Railway was the first railway in Scotland authorised by an Act of Parliament. It was a plateway, using L-shaped iron plates as rails. In 1817 it was also the first railway in Scotland to trial a steam locomotive. It was the Blücher that George Stephenson had used at the Killingworth Colliery. This locomotive ...
The Dundee and Perth Railway was a Scottish railway company. It opened its line in 1847 from Dundee to a temporary station at Barnhill and extended to Perth station in 1849. . It hoped to link with other railways to reach Aberdeen and changed its name to the Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction Company, but this early attempt was frustrated, and for some years it failed to make a ...
So it was that early in 1844 a prospectus was issued for the Edinburgh, Dundee and Northern Railway, with capital of £800,000. this was to be the scheme designed by Thomas Grainger and his partner John Miller. On 1 March 1844 the title of the proposed company was shortened to The Edinburgh and Northern Railway. It was to run from Burntisland ...
1838 – Dundee and Arbroath Railway opens. [21] 1839 – James Chalmers submits his adhesive postage stamp proposal to the UK Government. [22] [23] 1847 - Dundee and Perth Railway opens. [24] 1849 - The construction of Camperdown Works begins. [25] 1851 – St Mary, Our Lady of Victories Church opens. [26]