Bankfoot Light Railway

Introduction

This line is closed.





Dates

  /  /1898Bankfoot Light Railway
Bankfoot Light Railway authorised.
05/03/1906Bankfoot Light Railway
Line opened to goods and minerals.
07/06/1906Bankfoot Light Railway
Line opened to passengers. Bankfoot Shed opened.
  /  /1913Bankfoot Light Railway Caledonian Railway
Bankfoot Light Railway absorbed by Caledonian Railway.
  /  /1920Bankfoot Light Railway
Bankfoot Shed falls out of use.
13/04/1931Bankfoot Light Railway
Bankfoot to Strathord closed to passengers.
  /  /1936Bankfoot Light Railway
Bankfoot Shed demolished.
07/09/1964Bankfoot Light Railway
Bankfoot to Strathord (excluded) closed to freight.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This was a two platform station originally. The main station building was on the northbound platform.
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See also
Scottish Midland Junction Railway
26035, 26042 and 26001 near the former Strathord Junction with an excursion returning from Inverness to Edinburgh on 12 September 1992. 26001 and ...
Bill Roberton 12/09/1992
Last remaining building at Strathord in 1991. To the right were the two through platforms. This was the southern terminus of the Bankfoot light ...
Ewan Crawford //1991
Ex-Caledonian 4-4-0 54467 passing Strathord station on 6 April 1953 with a southbound train from Blair Atholl. (Strathord station had closed to ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/04/1953
Surviving platform building at Strathord in 1992, looking north. ...
Bill Roberton //1992
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This small shed opened with the light railway in 1906. It was a small single road timber building approached from the north by reversal from the station. On the east side of its approach line was a water tank on a wooden trestle.
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This was a one platform terminus opened in 1906. There was a timber station building and a goods shed. To the south was Bankfoot Shed.
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The former terminus at Bankfoot, seen in 1990, looking to the buffers. The light railway closed to passengers in 1931, the line remaining open to ...
Ewan Crawford //1990
Share certificate - Bankfoot Light Railway - authorised 1898. ...
Ian Dinmore //1898
The former station building at Bankfoot, Perthshire, looking south from the village war memorial in December 1990. The former terminus of the ...
Ewan Crawford //1990
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