Kinfauns
Location type
StationName and dates
Kinfauns (1847-1950)Opened on the Dundee and Perth Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station. There was a single storey station building.
The station had a goods yard at the east end, north side of the line. The signal box was at the east end of the eastbound platform.
When opened there was little development in this area, it was opened for Kinfauns Castle and its estate. A payment of £12,000 had been required by Lord Gray to allow the line to pass through his estate.
The box closed in 1946, replaced with a ground frame and the station closed in 1950.
The railway is open but little remains of the station.
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StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Barnhill Signal Box Perth Princes Street Glencarse Bridge of Earn [1st] Perth Bridge of Earn [2nd] Perth Glasgow Road [Temporary] Perth Glasgow Road Muirton Abernethy Abernethy Road Balmanno Platform Forgandenny Newburgh [2nd] Ruthven Road | Barnhill Carriage Sidings Tay Viaduct [Perth] Gas Works Perth Shipyard [Fenton] Perth Harbour Tourist/other Kinfauns Castle Seggieden House Elcho Castle Kinnoull Hill Inchyra Level Crossing Branklyn Garden Barnhill House Inchyra House King James VI Golf Club The Fergusson Gallery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1846 | Dundee and Perth Railway Deviation authorised between Inchyra and Kinfauns. |
News items
| 22/03/2021 | Calls for railway links at proposed 33.8 million leisure development outside Perth [The Courier] |
