Balnaguard Halt

Location type

Station

Name 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

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS 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 sign


A 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

02/12/1935Aberfeldy Branch (Inverness and Perth Junction Railway)
Balnaguard Halt opened by the LMS.
03/05/1965Aberfeldy 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.