Crieff and Comrie Railway

Introduction

This line is closed with some portions walk-able. The line extended the Crieff lines (from Gleneagles and Perth) further west to the small town of Comrie. The route ran along the north bank of the River Earn with Crieff Viaduct and Strowan Tunnel being the chief civil engineering features. The opportunity was taken to build an enlarged station at Crieff on the new route.

The line was later extended westwards from Comrie to St Fillans and Lochearnhead and connected with the Callander and Oban Railway.






Dates

05/07/1865Crieff and Comrie Railway
Act. Railway not built.
  /05/1869Crieff and Comrie Railway
Plans for railway officially ended.
29/04/1890Crieff and Comrie Railway
Agreement on operation of the Crieff and Comrie Railway by the Caledonian Railway.
25/07/1890Crieff and Comrie Railway
Crieff and Comrie Railway authorised.
01/06/1893Crieff and Comrie Railway
Line opened. Stations opened Crieff [2nd] and Comrie.
  /11/1893Crieff and Comrie Railway
Comrie Shed collapses in storm.
  /  /1898Crieff and Comrie Railway Caledonian Railway
Crieff and Comrie Railway absorbed by Caledonian Railway.
15/06/1964Crieff and Comrie Railway
Comrie to Crieff Signalbox closed to goods.
06/07/1964Crieff and Comrie Railway
Comrie to Crieff [2nd] to Gleneagles closed to passengers, the last trains being Park Royal railbus M79973 and another hauled by BR Standard Class 4 80063. (Comrie to Crieff Signalbox closed completely.)

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This signal box controlled the junction between several lines. To the east were the lines from Gleneagles (opened 1856), Perth (opened 1866), the reversing spur for Crieff Goods (originally Crieff [1st] of 1856) and the reversing spur for Crieff Sheds and further goods sidings. To the west it controlled the approach to Crieff Goods and the line through Crieff [2nd] ...

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See also
Crieff Junction Railway
Crieff and Methven Junction Railway


This was a through station opened with the Crieff and Comrie Railway replacing Crieff [1st], just to the south. It was a large station with two platforms and three tracks, the centre track being a goods bypass, or runround loop line. There were large station buildings, not dissimilar to the latter station building at Callander Dreadnought, which were heavily canopied on the platform ...

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The Gleneagles to Comrie railbus leaves Crieff under the King Street bridge as it heads for the short tunnel. The long removed west signal box was by ...
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King Street bridge over the former railway to Comrie on 6th September 2023. Crieff station was to the right.
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Bill Roberton 06/09/2023
Bridge carrying Sauchie Road, Crieff over the Comrie line trackbed. 7 September 2023.
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Bill Roberton 07/09/2023
The Gleneagles to Comrie railbus paused at Crieff. By this date the westbound platform canopies were still intact but the eastbound canopies had been ...
Aitken Scott //
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This was a small signal box with a sloping roof at the extreme west end of the eastbound platform. The box controlled the three lines from Crieff East Signalbox through Crieff [2nd] station and the line west to Comrie.
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This was a single bore tunnel around 171 feet long just west of Crieff [2nd] station. It ran from east of Burrell Street westwards to west of Carrington Terrace.
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Looking west from the King Street bridge towards Crieff Tunnel. Look at image 27563 for the view in 1970. The black shadow at the end of the car ...
Bill Roberton 07/09/2023
View west from King Street, Crieff, in late February 1970 towards Crieff tunnel with Burrell Street (A822) crossing over the trackbed. The end of ...
Bill Jamieson /02/1970
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This was a single track viaduct of around 114 feet to the west of Crieff [2nd] station which passed over the Turret Burn.
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Crieff Viaduct, over the Turret Burn, on 6 September 2023. All the steelwork has been removed.
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Bill Roberton 06/09/2023
Standard tank 80063 approaches Crieff with the last train from Comrie on 4 July 1964. It is about to pass over Crieff Viaduct, since demolished. ...
John Robin 04/07/1964
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This is a disused single bore tunnel of around 309 feet on a north-south orientation. It is gently curved and brick lined. The tunnel passes under the western slopes of Tom a' Chaisteil. The River Earn is to the west. The name is probably from 'sron' (nose), referring to a bend in the river.
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The east end of Strowan Tunnel, between Crieff [2nd] and Comrie. ...
Ewan Crawford /03/1992
Standard tank 80063 takes the curve to Strowan Tunnel on 4 July 1964 with the last train from Comrie, the 6.45pm to Gleneagles. [Ref query 7903]. Sir ...
John Robin 04/07/1964
View east through the tunnel at Stowan on the line between Comrie and Crieff. Sleeper indentations were still obvious in 1992. ...
Ewan Crawford /03/1992
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This was a two platform station. At first, when a terminus, a platform and station building were not provided on the up side. After extension a second platform and building were provided.
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Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway
One of two pieces of rail set upright into the ground and being used as bollards in front of a big gate on the road from Comrie to the Deil's ...
David Prescott 14/02/2022
One of two pieces of rail set upright into the ground and photographed being used as bollards in front of a big gate on Monument Road from Comrie to ...
David Prescott 14/02/2022
A Park Royal railbus after arrival at Comrie in June 1964. The station clock has seen better days, as the time is actually late afternoon. And repair ...
Brian Haslehust 20/06/1964
A Park Royal railbus ready to leave Comrie for Gleneagles, not long before the branch closed to passenger services in 1964. ...
Brian Haslehust 20/06/1964
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