Stanley (SMJR) railway station
Stanley railway station was located in the Scottish village of Stanley, Perthshire and was opened in 1848 and closed in 1857, when the new station of Stanley Junction was built to the north in the location where the junction where the Perth and Dunkeld Railway diverged from the Scottish Midland Junction Railway running between Perth and Arbroath.
| Stanley | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Place | Stanley, Perthshire |
| Coordinates | 56.4862°N 3.4439°W |
| Grid reference | NO111336 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Scottish Midland Junction Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| 2 August 1848 | Station opened[1] |
| 1857 | Station 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
Opened by the Scottish Midland Junction Railway, and absorbed into the Caledonian Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission.
| Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strathord Line open, station closed |
Caledonian Railway Scottish Midland Junction Railway |
Cargill Line and station closed | ||
| Highland Railway Perth and Dunkeld Railway |
Murthly Line open, station closed | |||
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.
gollark: Oh no, the horrible concurrency bug remains unfixed.
References
Notes
- Butt (1995), page 219
Sources
- 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 Scottish Midland Junction Railway".
- "Stanley railway 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.