Crieff and Methven Junction Railway
Introduction
This line is closed. It was a single track line which in 1866 extended the 1858 Perth and Almond Valley Junction Railway west to reach Crieff [1st]. Methven, the terminus of the extended line, was left on a short branch and a new exchange station opened Methven Junction where the lines met.
Another line had previously opened to Crieff [1st], the 1856 Crieff Junction Railway which approached from a station now known as Gleneagles. The companies shared the terminus until its replacement with Crieff [2nd] when the line was extended further west to Comrie in 1893 by the Crieff and Comrie Railway. All three lines in Crieff had their own locomotive sheds, east of the stations.
Perth to Crieff [2nd] (excluded) was one of many closures to passengers in Scotland in 1951, but the line remained for goods. In 1964 the Gleneagles to Crieff [2nd] and Comrie line closed to passengers and completely. Crieff [1st] was now the terminus of a goods line running from Perth. It survived until 1967.
Dates
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Methven Junction to Crieff
This was a single track line with passing places at Methven Junction and Madderty.
This was a three platform station with up and down platforms on the Crieff [2nd] to Perth line and a single platform for the branch This was an exchange platform station. The lines meeting here were single track.
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See also
Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway
This was a one platform station on the single track line. There was a timber station building on the platform, on the south side of the line.
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John Furnevel 12/07/2007
Ewan Crawford //1995
John Furnevel 12/07/2007
This was a two platform station with a passing loop. The main station building was on the westbound platform and a waiting room on the eastbound. A footbridge connecting the platforms just east of both buildings. The station's signal box (1892) was at the east end of the eastbound platform.
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John Furnevel 12/07/2007
John Furnevel 12/07/2007
WA Camwell (Copyright Stephenson Locomotive Society) 15/06/1960
David Stewart 23/04/1962
This was a single platform station. The platform was to the north of the line and there was a large station house. Two goods loops were to the south of the running line, passing round a loading bank. There were two sidings, one approached from the west forming a bay in the loading bank, and a second to the south of the loops which was approached from the east.
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Ewan Crawford //1995
Brian Forbes 15/10/2006
WA Camwell (Copyright Stephenson Locomotive Society) 15/06/1960
This was a single platform station with the platform on the north side of a goods loop. There were goods sidings on the south side, approached from the east.
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WA Camwell (Copyright Stephenson Locomotive Society) 15/06/1960
This chemical works was east of Crieff [2nd] on the line to Perth. It was to the immediate north of a loop siding on the north side of the line.
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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] ...
More detailsSee also
Crieff and Comrie Railway
Crieff Junction Railway
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