Crieff railway station

Crieff was a junction railway station at Crieff, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It was where the Crieff Junction Railway, Crieff & Methven Railway and the Comrie, St Fillans & Lochearnhead Railway met.

Crieff
Site of the station in 1986
Location
Place	Crieff
Area	Perth and Kinross
Operations
Original company	Crieff Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
13 March 1856	Opened
6 July 1964	Closed
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

The first terminus in Crieff was opened in 1856 as the terminus of the line from Crieff Junction, later rebuilt as Gleneagles Station. In 1866 the construction of a further line out to Methven meant that there was now a connection all the way to Perth. This station closed when a replacement station was built immediately to the north of it, the old station being repurposed as the goods yard for the new station.[1]

The new station was a large station built to the specifications of the Caledonian Railway with two platforms and three tracks which ran through the station with the central track being a goods line. It had a signal box at either end, the western one controlling the route to Comrie and the larger, eastern box controlling access to the goods yard, the locomotive sheds and the tracks to Gleneagles and Perth. Passenger services to Perth and beyond Comrie to Balquidder ceased in 1951 but the station remained open to goods and for the stub to Comrie plus the Gleneagles line.[2]

The station closed to passengers on 6 July 1964 with the closure of the lines to Comrie and Gleneagles. Freight continued on the Almond Valley line until September 1967 and the first Crieff Station continued to be used as a goods yard until then.[1][2]

The site of the station is now occupied by the Crieff Community Hospital while the former goods yard now houses the Crieff Medical Centre.[1][2] Immediately west of the station site was a shallow cutting which has now been filled in to create a large car park and an adjacent supermarket.[3]

References

1. "Crieff 1st (1866-1893)". Railscot. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
2. "Crieff 2nd (1893-1964)". Railscot. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
3. "Creiff Junction Railway". Railscot. Retrieved 5 March 2020.

External links

• RAILSCOT on Crieff Junction Railway

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Pittenzie Halt Line and Station closed		Caledonian Railway Crieff Junction Railway		Terminus
Innerpeffray Line and Station closed		Caledonian Railway Crieff and Methven Junction Railway		Terminus
Terminus		Caledonian Railway Crieff and Comrie Railway		Comrie Line and Station closed