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This is a two platform station. It has a station building on the up (southbound) platform with crow stepped gables, a lattice footbridge and superior timber waiting room building on the down platform.

The main building ('A' listed) was designed by William Roberts. It has a recess in the stonework, on the platform side, where a hand bell formerly rested, rung when trains were due. There is overall a strong resemblance to Nairn station. The main building dates from 1883, there being several improvements to the station about this time. The lattice footbridge (1884 from the Abercorn Foundry of Hanna, Donald & Wilson) and northbound platform building are 'B' listed.

Old photographs of the station show an unusual shelter to the south of the main station building - this was a canopy over the southbound platform's weighing machine.

The northbound platform was equipped with a water column.

The platforms have been extended at their northern end (October 2018). Platforms were extended in timber at the south end in 1878 and again during the Great War as long trains called here, many local hotels being used for convalescence. Due to the extensions being built on a platform these were built in timber on a metal structure, looking peculiar from below! These timber extensions have been removed.

There is a cast iron drinking fountain (the 'Macfarlane Fountain' (Saracen Foundry)) on the up platform, similar to those at Dalmally and formerly at Strathyre. (This is not the Strathyre fountain, which remains in that village.)

There was a goods yard on the east side of the line at the north end, opposite a pair of coal sidings serving staithes on the west side. The last remaining siding on the east side was latterly reduced to a permanent way siding before removal.

The station had two signal boxes, both opened in 1882. The north box was replaced in 1911. The south box, on the west side at the south end of the loop (at the point from which the timber platform extension began), was closed in 1919. The north box took over.

The remaining north signal box ('A' listed and located at the north end of the northbound platform) controlled the loop and occupational level crossing at the north end (this LC closed 2017). The remaining box closed in 2019, with signalling passing to Stanley Junction signal box.

The main station building is now a bookshop. Pitlochry Station Bookshop

The line is supported and promoted by the Highland Main Line Community Partnership .

Local

Pitlochry expanded after the opening of the railway and remains a tourist centre with many hotels.

The Blair Athol Distillery is in the east of Pitlochry.

Pitlochry Lineside accommodation is nearby.

Pitlochry Festival Theatre

Pitlochry Dam Visitor Centre

Cairngorm National Park

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