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Comrie

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Comrie (1893-1964)

Opened on the Crieff and Comrie Railway.
Opened on the Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station. At first, when a terminus, a platform and station building were not provided on the up side. After extension a second platform and building were provided.

A triangle of lines from the goods yard, south of the line approached from the east, allowed locomotive turning.

The signal box was accidentally burned down in 1951 and replaced with a hut. The box was to close in 1961, becoming a one-engine-in-steam location from Crieff Signalbox. Station closure came with the end of the Gleneagles-Crieff [2nd]-Comrie passenger service in 1964.

Portions of platform remain, particularly under the road bridge at the west end. The site is now a caravan park. Comrie Holiday Park

Comrie Viaduct was to the west.

In the Second World War, Prisoner of War Camp 21 was laid out at Cultybraggan, about a mile south of the station. In connection with this a store was built in the goods yard.

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67

Nearby stations Dalchonzie Platform St Fillans Crieff [1st] Crieff [2nd] Pittenzie Halt Highlandman Strageath Halt Innerpeffray Muthill Abercairny Greenloaning Carsebreck Tullibardine Kinbuck Madderty	Lednock Bridge Comrie Viaduct Earthquake House Dalchonzie Power Station Dalchonzie Viaduct Strowan Tunnel Dundurn Viaduct Tourist/other Deils Caldron Waterfall Lord Melville Monument House of Ross Ross Viaduct Dalchonzie House Strowan House Dunira House Sir David Baird^s Monument
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

01/06/1893	Crieff and Comrie Railway Line opened. Stations opened Crieff [2nd] and Comrie.
/ /1897	Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway authorised between Balquhidder Junction and Comrie.
01/10/1901	Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway Opened from Comrie to St Fillans, extending the existing line west from Comrie.
25/09/1950	Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway Balquhidder [2nd] (excluded) to Comrie (excluded) closed to freight, but remains open to passengers.
01/10/1951	Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway Balquhidder [2nd] (excluded) to Comrie (excluded) closed to passengers (and completely to regular traffic).
/08/1957	Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway Dismantled from three miles west of St Fillans to Comrie (excluded).
15/06/1964	Crieff and Comrie Railway Comrie to Crieff Signalbox closed to goods.
06/07/1964	Crieff and Comrie Railway Comrie to Crieff [2nd] to Gleneagles closed to passengers, the last trains being Park Royal railbus M79973 and another hauled by BR Standard Class 4 80063. (Comrie to Crieff Signalbox closed completely.)