Dunning

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Dunning (1848-1956)

Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Scottish Central Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station. It was somewhat distant from the town of Dunning, more than a mile and a half distant.

There was a the main station building, a single storey, was on the southbound platform and a waiting room on the northbound.

The goods yard was south of the station, on the east side, approached from the south.

The original signal box was at the west end of the northbound platform. It was replaced with a modern 1951 signal box which survived into the 1990s.

Tags

Station
11/07/2019




Chronology Dates

22/05/1848Scottish Central Railway
Opened from Stirling to Perth. Stations at: Bridge of Allan [1st], Dunblane, Kinbuck, Greenloaning, Auchterarder, Dunning, Forteviot, Forgandenny, Perth General.

News items

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Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North of Scotland v. 15 (Regional railway history series)

An Illustrated History of Tayside's Railways

Bradshaw's Guides Scotlands Railways West Coast - Carlisle to Inverness: 5

Scottish Central Railway (Oakwood Library of Railway History)