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Crieff And Comrie Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![C.R. 4.4.0 M14476 at Comrie station. On Arrival from Balquhidder.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 10/06/1950]](/images/20000/20854.jpg "Comrie")
![C.R. 4.4.0 M14476 at Comrie station. Entering from Crieff.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 10/06/1950]](/images/20000/20863.jpg "Comrie")
![Compound 4.4.0 40923 at Crieff.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 10/06/1950]](/images/20000/20865.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![The approach to Crieff from the south and east as seen in the 1957 One Inch OS map. The line to Perth had stations serving almost nothing and it had already closed to passengers. The first two stations going east were Innerpeffray and Abercairny. On the line to Gleneagles, Highlandman, again having nothing obvious to serve, was named instead after the Highland drovers who once passed this way. There must have been a reason for a mile long stretch of parallel single lines on the approach to Crieff: it seems a funny way to do it. Crown copyright 1957.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton //1957]](/images/33000/33291.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![Perth Black 5 no 45476 runs past Crieff signal box in 1960. [See image 40351] [Ref query 5148]<br><br>[David Stewart //1960]](/images/46000/46736.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![Perth Black 5 no 45476 shunts Crieff goods yard in 1960.<br><br>[David Stewart //1960]](/images/48000/48716.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![Locomotive 54485 arrives at Crieff from the east on the 1960 RCTS/SLS Joint Scottish Tour. <br><br>[WA Camwell (Copyright Stephenson Locomotive Society) 15/06/1960]](/images/40000/40351.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![A view of the 1960 RCTS/SLS Joint Scottish Tour from the west end of Crieff station.<br><br>[WA Camwell (Copyright Stephenson Locomotive Society) 15/06/1960]](/images/40000/40357.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![54485 runs round the stock of the 1960 RCTS/SLS Joint Scottish Tour after arrival at Comrie. At this time Comrie was the terminus of the line as the route west closed in 1951. Comrie remained open until 1964. The view is east.<br><br>[WA Camwell (Copyright Stephenson Locomotive Society) 15/06/1960]](/images/40000/40358.jpg "Comrie")
![The mid-day departure for Gleneagles prepares to leave Crieff's grand and capacious station in the early summer of 1961 (once someone closes the track-side door). If ever a line which was soon to face the Beeching Axe had options for sensible cost rationalisation to avoid closure, then this was it - too many buildings, extensive platform awnings, three tracks through the station, complex signalling - all for a 'one train working' railbus service and a couple of freight trains daily. The Beeching Report actually highlighted the Gleneagles-Crieff/Comrie service as a case study, and the statistics showed that it was the track and signalling costs which killed the service. If a Crieff-Gleneagles 'basic railway' had clung on, doubtless we would now be enjoying an hourly Crieff-Glasgow service!<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1961]](/images/27000/27554.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![Passengers leaving the mid-morning railbus arrival from Gleneagles amongst the still-imposing surroundings of Crieff station on a fine summer's day in 1961. [See image 27554]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1961]](/images/28000/28895.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![The BLS/SLS <I>Scottish Rambler</I> of 23 April 1962 arriving at Crieff. The special had travelled from Perth via Methven behind NB 256 <I>Glen Douglas</I> before returning via Gleneagles.<br><br>[David Stewart 23/04/1962]](/images/48000/48388.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![45461 on train to Crieff.<br><br>[John Robin 14/09/1963]](/images/6000/6669.jpg "Comrie")
![45461 on train from Comrie to Gleneagles.<br><br>[John Robin 14/09/1963]](/images/6000/6670.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![View of station yard.<br><br>[John Robin 04/07/1964]](/images/6000/6660.jpg "Comrie")
![Last train ready to leave for Gleneagles behind 80063.<br><br>[John Robin 04/07/1964]](/images/6000/6661.jpg "Comrie")
![Last train about to depart.<br><br>[John Robin 04/07/1964]](/images/6000/6662.jpg "Comrie")
![80063 is ready to leave Crieff with last train to Comrie<br><br>[John Robin 04/07/1964]](/images/6000/6716.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![West end of Comrie station looking to St Fillans.<br><br>[John Robin 04/07/1964]](/images/6000/6717.jpg "Comrie")
![Crieff station on 4 July 1964, the last day of passenger services. A view through a rather grimy window of the guards van as the train leaves for Gleneagles.<br><br>[John Robin 04/07/1964]](/images/21000/21486.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![Standard tank 80063 approaches Crieff with the last train from Comrie on 4 July 1964.<br><br>[John Robin 04/07/1964]](/images/21000/21487.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![Standard tank 80063 takes the curve to Strowan Tunnel on 4 July 1964 with the last train from Comrie, the 6.45pm to Gleneagles. [Ref query 7903] <br><br>[John Robin 04/07/1964]](/images/51000/51946.jpg "Strowan Tunnel")
![Easter 1966, just two years after closure, with the track not long lifted, but the former Comrie station is already showing signs of decay. Originally part of the Caledonian Railway route from Perth through Crieff to Balquhidder on the Callander & Oban line, from 1951 to its July 1964 closure Comrie was the terminus of the 15-mile branch line from Gleneagles.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1966]](/images/33000/33380.jpg "Comrie")
![On the other side of the camera for a change. The rarely photographed Frank Spaven surveys the remains of Comrie station at Easter 1966 in this view from the west. The railway to Crieff and Gleneagles had closed in 1964, but the track appears to have been lifted only recently.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1966]](/images/35000/35158.jpg "Comrie")
![View west from King Street, Crieff, in late February 1970 towards the bridge carrying Burrell Street (A822) over the trackbed. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson /02/1970]](/images/27000/27563.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![Scene at Crieff in early 1970, view is east from King Street with Crieff hospital on the left.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson /02/1970]](/images/27000/27574.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![Looking north-west from Duchlage Road over the site of Crieff station to King Street in March 1970. The bridge indicates where the line continued west to Comrie. [See image 27574]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 17/03/1970]](/images/49000/49643.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![View to the east from the disused westbound platform at Crieff station in 1988. The track was to the left. Crieff's original station was out of shot off to the right, it became a goods depot on opening of the line to Comrie.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/52000/52201.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
![A surviving section of the westbound platform at Comrie, photographed in 1992. View east below the bridge carrying the A85 with a large caravan park now occupying the area beyond. [Ref Query 41097]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1992]](/images/45000/45713.jpg "Comrie")
![View east through the tunnel at Stowan on the line between Comrie and Crieff. Sleeper indentations were still obvious in 1992.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /03/1992]](/images/34000/34695.jpg "Strowan Tunnel")
![A view of Comrie Station site in July 2009 from the west side of the bridge that carries the A85 into Comrie. The area is now a caravan site. <br><br>[John Gray 25/07/2009]](/images/24000/24742.jpg "Comrie")
![Glory days at Crieff. A postcard view shown at the exhibition at the Strathearn Community Centre, Crieff.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 01/09/2017]](/images/60000/60602.jpg "Crieff [2nd]")
