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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 Inverness and Perth Junction Railway was authorised by Parliament on 22 July 1861. [11] The first section of the new line was opened, from "Dunkeld" to Pitlochry , on 1 June 1863, and the I&PJR company took over the working of the Perth and Dunkeld Railway. line was opened throughout on 9 September 1863.
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]
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 ...
The Dunkeld branch was actually built by an independent company, the Perth and Dunkeld Railway. It left the SMJR main line at Stanley Junction, and was opened on 7 April 1856. It was worked by the SMJR. The Perth and Dunkeld Railway was taken over in 1864 as part of a scheme to connect Perth and Inverness, by what became the Highland Railway.
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
Perth New Yard (also known as Perth North Yard, Perth Marshalling Yard, and Perth Muirton Yard) is a former railway marshalling yard in the city of Perth, Scotland.The yard was built in the early 1960s to gather traffic from around the Perth area and goods wagons from the lines radiating from Perth.
Highland Main Line and A9 next to each other in Perthshire, September 2000 The line crosses the Dalguise Viaduct. The vast majority of the line was built and operated by the Highland Railway, with a small section of the line between Perth and Stanley built by the Scottish Midland Junction Railway, amalgamated with the Aberdeen Railway to become the Scottish North Eastern Railway in 1856, and ...