Balnaguard Halt
Location type
StationName and dates
Balnaguard Halt (1935-1965)Opened on the Aberfeldy Branch (Inverness and Perth Junction Railway).
Description
This was a single platform halt with a timber platform and wooden waiting shed. The platform was on the south side of the line.
The halt was opened by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway as late as 1935, despite repeated calls for a halt.
Ballinluig Public School had closed in 1934, along with those at Weem and Invervar, to save money.
Some of the cutting this halt was located in is still present, often lined with bagged bales. There are no obvious remains.
A derailment occurred near here on the 20th of November 1959 when a portion of embankment was washed away. The accident happened in the dark.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
| Nearby stations Ballinluig Grandtully Guay Pitlochry Dalguise Aberfeldy Killiecrankie Dunkeld and Birnam Blair Atholl Black Island Platform Rohallion Struan Murthly Bankfoot Glenlochsie Lodge | Logierait Viaduct Ballinluig Viaduct Ballinluig Turntable Moulinearn Crossing Tourist/other Dunfallandy Stone Grandtully Castle Blair Athol Distillery Pitlochry Festival Theatre Pitlochry Fish Ladder Dundarach Foot Crossing Prospect Place Foot Crossing St Mary^s Church Grandtully Eradour Distillery Loch Faskally Dalguise House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Half a signA sign survives on the nearby road which, having been damaged, reads BALNA LMS Halt on one side and GUARD PLATFORM on the reverse. |
Chronology Dates
| 02/12/1935 | Aberfeldy Branch (Inverness and Perth Junction Railway) Balnaguard Halt opened by the LMS. |
| 03/05/1965 | Aberfeldy Branch (Inverness and Perth Junction Railway) Inverness and Perth Junction Railway Aberfeldy branch closed, along with the closure of stations on the Highland Main Line with the withdrawal of local trains. On the branch Aberfeldy, Grandtully, Balnaguard Halt closed along with the junction station Ballinluig. South of the junction, on the main line, Dalguise and Murthly closed. To the north Killiecrankie, Struan, Dalnaspidal, Tomatin, Moy, Daviot, and Culloden Moor closed. |
