Alyth Junction railway station

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Alyth Junction
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Alyth Junction station site (1997)
General information
Location Meigle, Angus
Scotland
Coordinates 56°34′24″N3°09′02″W / 56.57347°N 3.15067°W / 56.57347; -3.15067
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Scottish North Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 August 1861Station opened as Meigle [1]
1 November 1876Renamed as Alyth Junction [1] [2]
4 September 1967Station closed [2]

Alyth Junction railway station served the village of Meigle in the Scottish county of Perth and Kinross. The station was the junction where the Alyth Railway and the Dundee and Newtyle Railway diverged from the Scottish Midland Junction Railway running between Perth and Arbroath.

Contents

The station is in the Angus council area, just over the border from Meigle.

History

Opened by the Scottish North Eastern 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 Railways Board.

The site today

Today some of the platforms remain and the site is waterlogged.

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Butt (1995), page 157
  2. 1 2 Butt (1995), page 16

Sources

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Meigle Junction   Caledonian Railway
Scottish Midland Junction Railway
  Ardler
Terminus  Caledonian Railway
Dundee and Newtyle Railway
  Newtyle
Terminus  Caledonian Railway
Alyth Railway
  Meigle


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