Aberfeldy railway station

Aberfeldy railway station served the village of Aberfeldy in Scotland.

Aberfeldy
LocationAberfeldy, Perth and Kinross
Scotland
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyInverness and Perth Junction Railway
Pre-groupingHighland Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
3 July 1865Station opens
3 May 1965Station closes

History

The station was opened on 3 July 1865 by the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway when it opened the branch line from Ballinluig to Aberfeldy.[1][2]

To the north west of the station was a goods yard and shed, with a 5 ton crane, able to take live stock, horse boxes and cattle vans.[3] To the south of the line as it left the station was a small engine shed and turntable.[4]

The station was host to a LMS caravan from 1935 to 1939.[5] A camping coach was also positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1952 to 1963.[6]

The station closed to freight and passengers on 3 May 1965.[1][7]

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Grandtully
Line and station closed
  Highland Railway
Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
  Terminus

The site today

The old station is now demolished, replaced by a parking area.[8]

References

  1. Quick 2019, p. 40.
  2. Grant 2017, p. 278.
  3. The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 12.
  4. "Aberfeldy station on OS 25inch map Perth and Clackmannanshire XLIX.6 (Dull; Logierait; Weem)". National Library of Scotland. 1900. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  5. McRae 1997, p. 22.
  6. McRae 1998, p. 13.
  7. Hurst 1992, p. 36 (ref 1703).
  8. "Aberfeldy Branch (Highland Railway)". Railscot.

Bibliography

  • Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
  • Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
  • McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
  • McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
  • Quick, Michael (2019) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF) (5th ed.). Railway and Canal Historical Society.
  • The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. p. 461. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.

Further reading

  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.


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