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This was a two platform station with a passing loop on a single track railway. Platforms were staggered. The eastbound platform was slightly further to the north. This platform had the main station building.

The goods yard was on the west side, approached from the south. The signal box was on the west side of the line at the south end of the station, built near the top of a cutting.

The station and line closed in 1964. Station buildings were demolished not long after closure.

The westbound platform remains intact while the trackbed is now a road and the eastbound platform has been removed and its site and the former goods yard are occupied by housing.

Rumbling Bridge [1st], the temporary terminus of the line from Kinross, was to the north east before the line was extended through difficult terrain westwards towards Dollar. That station, and its approach, would have resulted in a harsh gradient and it was closed and the line placed in a quarter mile long cutting.

Approach to the station, from the east, was by a long cutting, about a third of a mile long. This has been infilled and landscaped.

The Rumbling Bridge itself, crossing over the River Devon, was a little way to the north west.

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