A History of Britain’s Railways
Perth and Dunkeld Railway
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This line was formerly a branch off the Perth to Aberdeen main line to a small town. The area is not heavily populated and is farmed and given over to forestry.
From Stanley Junction to Dunkeld.
This was a station on the Scottish Midland Junction Railway. Since the closure of the line to Forfar this location has become the point where the Perth to Inverness line becomes single track, going north. A modern signal box still stands.
This station had two platforms and a passing loop. The station is closed and the passing loop lifted. The signalbox lasted a little longer as a 'gate box' and still stands, although disused. There was a goods yard to the north end, but this has also been lifted.
This is no longer a passing loop and the signalbox removed.
This photograph looks north. The railway is beyond the trees, running parallel to the road. The station of Rohallion was probably located just up in the trees at this point. The station closed at an early date.
This is a two platform station with a passing loop. This was a terminus until the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway made an end-on junction here and continued the line to Forres on the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway. The station building still stands, but the timber all-over roof was removed many years ago. There is an old lamp standard here by the footbridge with the original company name on it. The sourh signal box remains (close by it was a locomotive shed of which a single stone wall remains). There is a large goods yard with a number of sidings which are used to store track maintenance machines (these were formerly stored in Perth New Yard, but due to vandalism were re-located to Dunkeld). An original Highland Railway signal with a finial stands at the south end.
The station's name has changed a number of times, the busy A9 has been built (partly over the extensive goods yard) between it and the towns of Dunkeld and Birnam, but the station is still open.
