Abernethy railway station

Abernethy railway station served the village of Abernethy, in Scotland.

Abernethy
Location of the former station (1997)
Location
PlaceAbernethy
AreaPerth and Kinross
Coordinates56.33559°N 3.31263°W / 56.33559; -3.31263
Grid referenceNO188166
Operations
Original companyEdinburgh and Northern Railway
Pre-groupingNorth British Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Platforms?
History
18 May 1848Abernethy Road opened[1]
18 July 1848Abernethy opened[1]
25 July 1848Abernethy Road closed[1]
19 September 1955Abernethy closed[1]
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

History

Initially Abernethy Road opened concurrently with the Edinburgh and Northern Railway on 18 May 1848.[1] When the line was extended this first station was replaced by Abernethy on 18 July 1848.[1]

It became part of the North British Railway in 1865, and so into the London and North Eastern Railway. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was closed by the British Transport Commission on 19 September 1955.[1]

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Bridge of Earn
Line open, station closed
  Edinburgh and Northern Railway
North British Railway
  Newburgh
Line open, station closed

The site today

Although the line through the station site is still open for trains, as part of the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line between Perth and Ladybank, the station at Abernethy is closed. A small section of the southbound platform is still in place, but is heavily overgrown.

gollark: This is the UI, if anyone is particularly interested or otherwise.
gollark: It was the first image I found in my images folder which works as an icon.
gollark: I have now made "icons" work in the search results.
gollark: If I did that sort of thing, I would probably just store some wikitext/markdown notes together with a PDF.
gollark: Given the annoyances using a relational database, especially one which isn't widely-used with async (forcing me to write this stuff myself) is causing, I'm actually quite tempted to just replace the database tables with an array of dicts or something.

References

Notes

  1. Butt (1995), page 12

Sources

  • Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.
  • 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.
  • "RAILSCOT on Edinburgh and Northern Railway". Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  • "Abernethy Station on navigable O. S. map".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.