Strathearn Junction Railway (Edinburgh and Northern Railway)





Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This was a two platform station around a third of a mile east of the later station. the location what cramped and goods yard small.
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There are superb views of the Firth of Tay from trains on the Perth to Ladybank line, particularly on the section between Newburgh and Lindores Loch, ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2022
107 029 passes the cramped site of Newburgh (First) with an Edinburgh - Perth service. ...
Bill Roberton //1990
37088 is seen passing the location of the original Newburgh station with an Edinburgh - Inverness train on 19th September 1990. Just visible above ...
Graeme Blair 19/09/1990
Newburgh looking eastward towards Ladybank. Firth of Tay on left, and Tay Bridge, in distance. Possible location of first station 1848-1906. [Railscot ...
Brian Forbes 27/01/2007
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The second Newburgh station was opened west of the original on a site which allowed expansion of the goods yard. The main station building was on the eastbound platform. The signal box was at the west end of the easbound platform.
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The old station at Newburgh, which closed to passengers in 1955, pictured sometime in 1978 when the bidirectional loop was still operational. That was ...
Bill Roberton //1978
Approaching the former goods yard at Newburgh from the west in the summer of 2005. Newburgh station, which closed to passengers in 1955, is beyond the ...
John Furnevel 21/06/2005
A 1978 view of the up platform building at Newburgh. A curiosity was the survival of hand-written steam loco numbers on the woodwork under the ...
Bill Roberton //1978
107 027 climbs past the former station at Newburgh with a Perth - Edinburgh service. ...
Bill Roberton //1990
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This was a short lived terminus before the line from Ladybank was extended west to Hilton Junction.
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66746 leads a 'Royal Scotsman' excursion to Keith through the cutting between Newburgh and Abernethy on 2nd August 2021. When the Ladybank to Perth ...
Mark Bartlett 02/08/2021
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This was a two platform station on a double line. The line was singled from Bridge of Earn [2nd] to Newburgh [2nd] in 1933 and the signal box closed after which one platform remained in use and a ground frame was installed. There was a goods yard at the east end of the station, approached from the east, the box had been on the south side of the line opposite the goods yard.
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Sheep May Safely Graze, the popular pastoral music, is suggested here, as a 170 for Edinburgh passes Balgonie Farm. ...
Brian Forbes /09/2007
Pure Country. Edinburgh train about to pass under the Skew Brig, east of Abernethy. ...
Brian Forbes /09/2007
The Royal Scotsman passing Abernethy on 19 May bound for Dalwhinnie. ...
Brian Forbes 19/05/2005
57601 takes the Royal Scotsman on its journey towards Perth. ...
Brian Forbes 25/06/2007
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This two platform station was immediately west of the junction between the lines to Ladybank and Glenfarg. The junction was controlled by a signal box in the 'V' of the junction, aligned to the Glenfarg route (opened around 1890 for the new route, 1890, and station, 1892).
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Glenfarg Line (North British Railway)
47710 working the Inverness to Edinburgh near Bridge of Earn on 14 September 1990. ...
Roger Geach 14/09/1990
158729 hurries through the site of Bridge of Earn station heading for Perth from Edinburgh on 17th September 2021. The widening bridge parapet on the ...
Mark Bartlett 17/09/2021
A 37 hauled Edinburgh to Inverness train passes the site of the former second Bridge of Earn station in 1990. The lines to Ladybank (open) and through ...
Ewan Crawford //1990
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This junction is south of Perth, immediately south of the Moncrieffe Tunnel. Here the lines from Stirling and Ladybank meet and continue north to Perth.
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Scottish Central Railway
Black 5 44790 nearing Hilton Junction on 17th July 1965, well up to time with a ten coach load on the 9.25 Crewe-Perth, often a Pacific duty. ...
Robin McGregor 17/07/1965
Kingmoor Jubilee 45588 'Kashmir', at the head of a fairly lightweight southbound parcels service, seen shortly after passing Hilton Junction. 29th ...
Robin McGregor 29/08/1964
A grubby A4 60010 'Dominion of Canada' heads south from Hilton Junction with the 1.30pm Aberdeen to Glasgow on 29th August 1964. The loco was ...
Robin McGregor 29/08/1964
The Easter 1966 Scottish Rambler No 5 approaches Hilton Junction, after a run over the Glenfarg line, behind B1 4-6-0 61407. The B1 was a short notice ...
Robin McGregor 09/04/1966
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