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Perth And Dunkeld Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Class 47 hauled passenger train running south through Dunkeld station. View looking north from the former locomotive shed showing the signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/800.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Pair of class 47s running south through Dunkeld station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/801.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![InterCity 125 crossing the level crossing at Murthly passing the signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/802.jpg "Murthly")
![Near the site of Rohallion station viewed from the south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/803.jpg "Rohallion")
![Perth/Inverness Line. Dunkeld Signal Box in June 2002.<br><br>[John Gray //]](/images/5000/5754.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Southbound concrete at Murthly.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7493.jpg "Murthly")
![From a passing train, in the early 1970s, this view looks south to Murthly Station and goods yard with a BRCW Class 26 hauled goods train in the loop. The station closed completely on 3 May 1965 but the goods yard appears to be fully intact at this time, if lightly used.<br>
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<br><br>[Bill Roberton //]](/images/63000/63232.jpg "Murthly")
![HR103 standing in the rain at Murthly on 21 August 1965. The locomotive and preserved Caledonian coaches were heading north to Inverness to participate in the Highland Railway Centenary celebrations.<br><br>[John Robin 21/08/1965]](/images/48000/48686.jpg "Murthly")
![An early 1967 view of the remains of what must have been one of the most unusual private sidings anywhere on the network. Taken from an Inverness-bound train, this shows the then recently disconnected Murthly Asylum siding - which had presumably been used for laundry and other supplies.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1967]](/images/27000/27787.jpg "Murthly")
![A pair of type 2s at the head of a southbound service accelerating past the home signal south of Dunkeld station on 10 June 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/06/1973]](/images/18000/18717.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![A pair of class 26s heading south through the closed station at Murthly with a passenger train one evening in 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1974]](/images/36000/36679.jpg "Murthly")
![A gas lamp at Dunkeld station in September 1976 [see image 32341]. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 24/09/1976]](/images/38000/38098.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![40006 approaches Murthly heading an Inverness - Edinburgh service and is about to cross 26037 + 26010 awaiting clearance.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 16/08/1978]](/images/62000/62185.jpg "Murthly")
![Platform lighting at Dunkeld, 1981. [See image 38098]<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1981]](/images/32000/32341.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![47578 <I>The Royal Society of Edinburgh</I> gets the road for Perth at Dunkeld in 1987.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1987]](/images/10000/10986.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Low HR platforms still exist at Dunkeld, see the small portable steps.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1987]](/images/11000/11424.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Dunkeld looking north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8834.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![An evening train calls at Dunkeld on its way south in October 1989.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /10/1989]](/images/31000/31605.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Dunkeld signal box, October 1989.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /10/1989]](/images/31000/31807.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Interior of Dunkeld signalbox in 1990. The view looks south. At the time the timberwork was receiving some attention - a large portion of the southern side was rotten and required replacement. It was commented at the time that this was the very timber which was checked with a gimlet for rot and this might have been the cause.<br><br>
How much of the box is, in fact, old? I find myself thinking of Trigger's broom.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/34000/34869.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![A pair of class 37s with a cement train southbound through Dunkeld in 1990.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/51000/51427.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![47708 takes a northbound train over the level crossing and through the site of Murthly station in 1990.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/51000/51463.jpg "Murthly")
![A Glasgow bound 158715 leaves Dunkeld station in 1991. Birnam Hill rises above the signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1991]](/images/30000/30345.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![In early 1991 a northbound service leaves Dunkeld.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1991]](/images/57000/57558.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![A southbound train runs into Dunkeld station on a bitterly cold January evening in 1991.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /01/1991]](/images/51000/51332.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![The interior of Dunkeld box in 1994, looking to the station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1994]](/images/59000/59341.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Scene inside Dunkeld signalbox on a chilly October evening in 1994, with the pitter-patter of rain on the windows... and a steaming mug of coffee on the table...<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /10/1994]](/images/44000/44279.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![The bright lights of Dunkeld on a cold night in 1995. The view looks south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1995]](/images/62000/62009.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![158 720 stands at Dunkeld in July 1998 with an Edinburgh - Inverness service. <br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/17000/17463.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Murthly signalbox now without steps and boarded up. Looking to Dunkeld.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2003]](/images/9000/9029.jpg "Murthly")
![Southbound train passing the site of an early closure, Rohallion station, south of Dunkeld.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/02/2003]](/images/13000/13987.jpg "Rohallion")
![View north over Dunkeld station in May 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/05/2003]](/images/3000/3667.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![A southbound train leaves Dunkeld on an Inverness - Glasgow Queen Street service in May 2003 after a shower of rain.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/05/2003]](/images/38000/38123.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![An Inverness - Glasgow Queen Street service about to leave Dunkeld on a damp 29 May 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/05/2003]](/images/48000/48380.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![A morning Edinburgh - Inverness service calls at Dunkeld in November 2003. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/11/2003]](/images/46000/46379.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![An Edinburgh - Inverness train pulls away from Dunkeld on 9 November 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/11/2003]](/images/49000/49819.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Murthly cabin (2006).Part of the former south bound platform is seen in this former 2 platform station & crossing point.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/08/2006]](/images/10000/10448.jpg "Murthly")
![Railmec digger and truck return to goods yard for more ballast.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/12/2006]](/images/12000/12720.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Dunkeld goods yard is a temporary source of infill material after an embankment slip near Dalguise. A railtruck is being loaded.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/12/2006]](/images/12000/12722.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Looking south on a frosty afternoon. Factor 60 sunscreen supplied.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/12/2006]](/images/12000/12746.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Rail digger - close up. double manned.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/12/2006]](/images/12000/12780.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Kinclaven crossing. between Stanley & Murthly.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/03/2007]](/images/13000/13971.jpg "Kinclaven Crossing")
![Inverness service passing through Birnam Woods. <i>Awa wi ye Macbeth</i><br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/03/2007]](/images/13000/13978.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Dunkeld station painted. Must be a Royal Train soon.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/04/2007]](/images/14000/14706.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Platform remains and the creepy old signal box at Murthly in July 2007 looking northwest from the level crossing. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/07/2007]](/images/18000/18061.jpg "Murthly")
![WCRC 47826 waits to leave Dunkeld for Perth with <i>The Royal Scotsman</i>.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/09/2007]](/images/16000/16583.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Passengers from <i>The Royal Scotsman</i> standing in Dunkeld station transfer from train to bus for a visit to Glamis Castle.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/09/2007]](/images/16000/16584.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![<I>The Royal Scotman</I> arriving at Dunkeld on 13 September.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/09/2007]](/images/16000/16585.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![47826 leads the Royal Scotsman south out of Kingswood Tunnel heading for Murthly and Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 04/10/2007]](/images/16000/16766.jpg "Kingswood Tunnel")
![Pittensorn wicket crossing leads to Witches Stone, in Murthly Estate. south of Dunkeld.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 9/3/2007]](/images/13000/13921.jpg "Murthly")
![170 428 with buffers</I> whitewashed, calling at Dunkeld & Birnam.<br>
The yellow portable steps are used for low platform access.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/9/2007]](/images/16000/16590.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![The <I>Royal Scotsman</I> pulls up at Dunkeld on 13 September.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/9/2007]](/images/16000/16602.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![45407 pilots 60009 at the head of <I>The North Briton</I> passing Kingswood, on Day 2 of a five day tour of Scotland.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/04/2008]](/images/18000/18633.jpg "Kingswood Crossing")
![66099 south of Dunkeld on 15 April with a Mk2 brake first in the timing path of the late running <I>North Briton</I> railtour.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 15/04/2008]](/images/18000/18679.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Canopy brackets on Dunkeld up platform. Photographed on 14 July 2008.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 14/07/2008]](/images/31000/31871.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![An Inverness to Edinburgh service approaches Dunkeld in August 2007.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 21/08/2008]](/images/22000/22298.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![A southward look at the signal box at Dunkeld with semaphore signalling (taken Sept.2008)<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2008]](/images/20000/20881.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![The 1200 London - Inverness HST approaching Dunkeld on 20 September 2008 where it is crossing the southbound 47854 with a West Coast Railway hauled train bound for Newcastle.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/09/2008]](/images/20000/20750.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Special train restarting southbound from Dunkeld on 20 September 2008 following a pathing stop. Locomotive 47854 with the SRPS touring set.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/09/2008]](/images/21000/21055.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![70013 'Oliver Cromwell' pilots 61994 'The Great Marquess' through<br>
Dunkeld with 'The Great Britain III' on 13 April 2010 heading for Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/04/2010]](/images/28000/28493.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![A rail grinder stabled in the sidings at Dunkeld on 13 April 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/04/2010]](/images/28000/28544.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![With 70013+61994 up front, 47760 is the supporting class 47 at the rear of the GBIII as it accelerates away from Dunkeld towards Perth on 13 April 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/04/2010]](/images/28000/28555.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![170 419 approaches Dunkeld with a busy (as always) Inverness to <br>
Edinburgh service on 20 September. This track is bidirectional and is used by all passenger services except the one a day which needs to cross here, and the odd special [see image 20750]. The difference in track usage is obvious, and the approach signalling shows that Platform 2 is not bidirectional but Down only.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 20/09/2010]](/images/30000/30782.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Dunkeld's station building is long out of rail use, but it has an <br>
occupier and is maintained in fine order, as can be seen in this study of 20 September. When the station opened it was the end of the line for 7 years and had an overall roof. This can still be imagined from the substantial wall, now supporting the canopy, which would once have been replicated on the other platform.<br><br>[David Panton 20/09/2010]](/images/30000/30823.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![On 20 September 170 419 pulls into Dunkeld & Birnam with an Inverness to Edinburgh service . Note the low platforms and the steps which through careful driving will be matched up to the doors. Dunkeld was as far as you got for the first seven years of the Highland main line's existence, so the track would have come to an end about where it disappears in this picture. As well as an overall roof here there were extensive goods sidings (of which a fragment remains) running behind the station and towards Birnam, a site now covered by the A9. When this was the railhead for the Highlands they would have been rather busy.<br><br>[David Panton 20/09/2010]](/images/30000/30835.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![A look south along the Platform 1 at Dunkeld on 20 September. The line is bidirectional and the platform is used by all services except one each weekday. The station may look like it is staffed, but in fact is hasn't been manned for some years though this building is occupied. Notice that some of the canopy brackets seem to have had their ornate mouldings knocked out and replaced with something more utilitarian. Note also the wooden steps on platforms which are below standard height. The sign on the door reads <I>Private offices leased from British Rail. It is regretted that there are no facilities for the travelling public</I>. <br>
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<br><br>[David Panton 30/09/2010]](/images/31000/31013.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![46115 brings the southbound 'Great Britain V' out of Kingswood Tunnel on 24 April 2012 on its way to Perth.<br><br>[John Robin 24/04/2012]](/images/38000/38546.jpg "Kingswood Tunnel")
![68005 'Defiant' climbs towards Kingswood tunnel with Inverness - Mossend empty containers on 29th July 2014. Earlier on the same date this loco had made the Class 68 debut on the Highland main line. David Spaven comments: the large majority of containers on the Inverness-Mossend service are actually loaded - typically with board products from the Norbord plant at Dalcross. Back-loading is critical for the rail economics, as indeed it is for road hauliers.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 29/07/2014]](/images/59000/59202.jpg "Kingswood Tunnel")
![An Edinburgh service pulls into Dunkeld on 05/10/2016. Gas lighting survived here until less than 40 years ago, but nothing has changed since, and probably for a lot longer. Dunkeld manages without departure information, a rarity nowadays but then it's all available by phone app. Who'd have thought of that in gas lighting days?<br><br>[David Panton 05/10/2016]](/images/56000/56766.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Loop Platform 2 at Dunkeld is used only to allow passing, as here when a Glasgow to Inverness service waits an Edinburgh-bound to arrive and allow it to proceed.<br><br>[David Panton 05/10/2016]](/images/56000/56790.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
![Black Five 45212 and K1 62005 lead the Inverness - Glasgow Central leg of the Great Britain X exiting Kingswood Tunnel, south of Dunkeld and Birnam.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 02/05/2017]](/images/59000/59181.jpg "Kingswood Tunnel")
![DRS 66423 passes through Dunkeld & Birnam with the Inverness - Mossend intermodal on 17th October 2017.<br>
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<br><br>[Bill Roberton 17/10/2017]](/images/61000/61444.jpg "Dunkeld and Birnam")
