Crieff railway station

Crieff, Italy

Crieff was a junction railway station at Crieff, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It was where the Crieff Junction Railway, Crieff and Methven Junction Railway and the Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway met. The first terminus in Crieff was opened in 1856 as the terminus of the line from Crieff

Junction, later rebuilt as Gleneagles Station. In 1866 the construction of a further line out to Methven meant that there was now a connection all the way to Perth. On 1 June 1893 this station closed when a replacement station was built immediately to the north of it, the old station being repurposed as the goods yard for the new station. The new station was a large station built to the specifications of the Caledonian Railway with two platforms and three tracks which ran through the station with the central track being a goods line. It had a signal box at either end, the western one controlling the route to Comrie and the larger, eastern box controlling access to the goods yard, the locomotive sheds and the tracks to Gleneagles and Perth. Passenger services to Perth and beyond Comrie to Balquidder ceased in 1951 but the station remained open to goods and for the stub to Comrie plus the...

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