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This signal box controlled access to the Perth Goods [NB] yard. Access was from the south from the Perth goods lines avoided the station by running round the west side. The box was on the west side of the railway on the north side of the St Leonards bridge. (This box was not the same box as St Leonards Bridge Junction box. St Leonards Junction box was a North British Railway owned signal cabin.)

The goods lines were created when Perth General (now just Perth) was substantially rebuilt and expanded between 1884 and 1888.

The double track goods route started at Edinburgh Road Bridge Junction to the south and ran north via St Leonards Junction (south of the station) along the west side of Perth station and the Perth Down Carriage Sidings to Dovecotland Junction (north of the station). After 1962 the connection was moved a little further north, to Balhousie Junction. This brought the goods lines closer to Perth New Yard.

The goods lines closed in the early 1970s. The southern end alongside the Perth Holding Sidings were retained as carriage sidings until falling out of use in the 1990s.

The site is presently derelict although the huge number of trees which grew here are being cleared (May 1019).

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