Blackford
Location type
StationName and dates
Blackford (1851-1956)Station code: BLF National Rail
Opened on the Scottish Central Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station with a goods yard at the west end, south side of the line. The station building also survives on the former westbound platform, its extension to the east removed. From the platform side, this resembled a house with dormer windows (removed since closure of the station). A similar building exists at the former Kinbuck station. A small timber waiting room was on the Perth platform. There was a water tank at the west end of the westbound platform.
The signal box (replacing one on the west side of the level crossing by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1933) survives here, on the east side of the level crossing to the east of the former station. It is a LMS Type 12.
Close by the station is Highland Spring for whom sidings have been laid in at the former goods yard.
Blackford Mail Apparatus was to the east of the level crossing.
Local
Highland Spring has a bottling plant nearby the former station, just to the south.
At the other, south, end of Blackford from the former station is the Tullibardine Distillery .
Tags
Station LMS Type 12External links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
| Nearby stations Gleneagles [1st] Gleneagles Carsebreck Tullibardine Auchterarder Greenloaning Muthill Strageath Halt Highlandman Innerpeffray Kinbuck Abercairny Pittenzie Halt Crieff [2nd] Dunning | Highland Spring Blackford Mail Apparatus Gleneagles Summit Gleneagles Tip Kincardine Glen Viaduct Machany Water Viaduct Tourist/other Blackford Old Parish Church Gleneagles Hotel Tullibardine Chapel Ardoch Roman Fort Strathallan Castle Strathallan Airfield Braco Castle Muthill Old Church and Tower Innerpeffray Chapel |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1851 | Scottish Central Railway Blackford station opened. |
| /12/2005 | Scottish Central Railway Possibility of reopening of Blackford to provide relief to Dunblane station discussed by Perth and Kinross Council and First ScotRail. |
| /04/2010 | Scottish Central Railway Petition to the Scottish Parliament to re-open Blackford station to reduce A9 traffic and for the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles. |
| /02/2011 | Scottish Central Railway With the withdrawal of a Freight Facilities Grant, Highland spring abandons plan for a depot at Blackford. |
| 20/07/2022 | Scottish Central Railway First freight train to the Highland Spring crane served sidings, Blackford. |
