Huntingtower Bleachfield

Location type

Works

Name and dates

Huntingtower Bleachfield

Served by the Huntingtower Bleachfield Railway and Almondbank Naval Stores.

Chronology Dates

  /  /1911Huntingtower Bleachfield Railway and Almondbank Naval Stores
A private electrified railway is opened from east of Almondbank station, on the Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway, to Lumsden and MacKenzie's Huntingtower Bleachfield and Pitcairnfield Bleach Works.
  /  /1945Huntingtower Bleachfield Railway and Almondbank Naval Stores
Approximate date of closure of line from Pitcairnfield Bleach Works to Huntingtower Bleachfield (excluded).
  /  /1962 Huntingtower Bleachfield Railway and Almondbank Naval Stores
Huntingtower Bleachfield line closed (lifted 1963).
  /  /1966Huntingtower Bleachfield Railway and Almondbank Naval Stores
Line closed to Almondbank Naval Stores after Huntingtower Bleachfield according to OS maps. Closure possibly 1962. Locomotives dispensed with 1966.