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Scottish Central Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Carmuirs West Junction signalbox viewed from the east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/807.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![Looking west at Carmuirs West Junction and signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/808.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![Looking south at Larbert station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/809.jpg "Larbert")
![Class 47 hauled passenger train heading north in Perth station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/811.jpg "Perth")
![Polmaise Junction and Signalbox viewed from the south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/815.jpg "Polmaise Junction")
![Looking at a class 47 hauled passenger train running north through Stirling station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/817.jpg "Stirling")
![Looking north from the roadbridge at the north of Stirling station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/818.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Looking south over Stirling station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/819.jpg "Stirling")
![Looking north at Stirling station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/820.jpg "Stirling")
![Exterior of Stirling station building.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/821.jpg "Stirling")
![Looking south at Dunblane station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1718.jpg "Dunblane")
![Hilton Junction looking south with an oil train passing. The line to the right runs to Stirling and the line to the left to Ladybank.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1719.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Class 26 heading south past Stirling South.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1720.jpg "Stirling South")
![Larbert Junction looking south from the steps of the signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2970.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Plean Junction signalbox viewed from a neighbouring roadbridge. The view looks south. The box has been altered and now looks a little ungainly. This must be one of the tallest remaining signalboxes.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2971.jpg "Plean Junction")
![A sprinter hammers north past Plean Junction in the growing dark.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2972.jpg "Plean Junction")
![Class 47 hauled passenger train passing south past the site of Stirling MPD.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2975.jpg "Stirling South")
![Dunblane signalbox on the east side of the line north of the junction. This controlled the junction for the line to Oban.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2976.jpg "Dunblane")
![Train passing south over Blackford Level Crossing at night.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2977.jpg "Blackford")
![Looking north at Dunning. The signalbox was located to the left by the monkey puzzle tree.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2978.jpg "Dunning")
![Train passing over the Forgandenny Viaduct. View looks towards Perth.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2979.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Train crossing the Forteviot Level Crossing.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2981.jpg "Forteviot")
![Gleneagles, looking towards Perth in the mid 1980s.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2982.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Greenloaning looking north towards Perth. Greenloaning has two loops. Closer to the camera with the station the main building of which still stands.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2983.jpg "Greenloaning")
![46201 enters from Carlisle.<br><br>[John Robin //]](/images/6000/6795.jpg "Perth")
![60009 at Stirling bound for the north<br><br>[John Robin //]](/images/6000/6881.jpg "Stirling")
![Acres of glass at Gleneagles.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7274.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Carmuirs West Junction box viewed from the east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7290.jpg "Carmuis West Junction")
![Southbound DMU at Carmuirs West Junction viewed from the box.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7291.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![Frame and panel in Carmuirs West box.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7292.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![Looking south at Larbert Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7293.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Southbound 477 at Larbert Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7294.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![47 heading for Perth and crossing the Forgandenny Viaduct.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7684.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Entering Gleneagles from the south with 47 hauled Glasgow to Inverness train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7686.jpg "Gleneagles")
![47 hauled train heads north from Dunblane.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7687.jpg "Dunblane")
![DMU crossing the viaduct just north of Dunblane. Cathedral behind.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7688.jpg "Dunblane")
![Inverness train heading north from Stirling through Cornton.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7699.jpg "Cornton")
![Plean Junction box before alterations. Quite tall!<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7701.jpg "Plean Junction")
![26041 approaches Plean Junction from the south with oil.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7711.jpg "Plean Junction")
![A southbound 125 passes Plean Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7712.jpg "Plean Junction")
![Plaque on the exterior wall of south end of Perth station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8894.jpg "Perth")
![The carriage sidings at Perth are disconnected and look somewhat past their best.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8900.jpg "Perth")
![Approaching Blackford from the south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8914.jpg "Blackford")
![Stirling North signalbox. Shore Road level crossing was to the left, later replaced with an overbridge.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8919.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Crossing the Forth just north of Stirling.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8920.jpg "Stirling Forth Viaduct")
![More Forth Bridges ... Caley left and NB right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8921.jpg "Stirling Forth Viaduct")
![View looking east across the platform ends showing the semaphore signals and Stirling goods office.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8962.jpg "Stirling")
![Larbert North home signal is on the right post, the two distants are for Grahamston(left) and Greenhill(right).<BR/>The 2007 signal rationalisation removed this feature.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //]](/images/11000/11136.jpg "Larbert")
![158s at Perth station in the 90s.<br><br>[John Mcintyre //]](/images/11000/11754.jpg "Perth")
![Southern bypass under construction. 101 heads north.<br><br>[Unknown //]](/images/12000/12453.jpg "Bannockburn")
![Perth station looking south with a DMU at the Dundee platforms.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //]](/images/13000/13353.jpg "Perth")
![The former signal box at Forteviot. The box closed in 1985.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //]](/images/15000/15698.jpg "Forteviot")
![Class A4 60011 <I>Empire of India</I> on a northbound parcels train at Stirling with a class 101 DMU standing in platform 4.<br>
This was one of six A4 pacifics to work between Aberdeen and Glasgow Buchanan Street between 1962 & 1967.<br><br>[Brian Forbes Collection //]](/images/17000/17476.jpg "Stirling")
![Photograph by W Clark showing McIntosh ex-Caledonian class 908 4-6-0 No 917, renumbered as LMS 14618, standing at Perth shed, probably in the early 1930s. The locomotive, built in 1906/1907, was the last survivor of its class, being eventually withdrawn in 1935.<br><br>[Graham Morgan Collection //]](/images/19000/19949.jpg "Perth South")
![Early evening scene at Perth shed in the 1960s. Locomotives on shed include Standard class 4 no 80028 on the left and Black 5 no 44720 to the right.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20542.jpg "Perth South")
![<I>'Very nice of you to say so Madam, I'll certainly pass that on to our cleaning team at Ferryhill...'</I> Smartly turned out A4 Pacific no 60019 <I>Bittern</I> attracts some attention shortly after arrival at Stirling with an Aberdeen - Glasgow service in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20558.jpg "Stirling")
![Stanier Black 5 no 45396 of 63B will soon pass its home shed as it accelerates south with a train out of Stirling in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/20000/20693.jpg "Stirling")
![View south towards a busy Perth shed in the early 1960s.<br><br>[Gary Straiton Collection //]](/images/23000/23676.jpg "Perth South")
![McIntosh 2P 0-4-4T no 55222 stored alongside Stirling South shed in the late 1950s. Official withdrawal by BR came in 1961 with disposal through Inverurie works the following year.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/27000/27265.jpg "Stirling South")
![V2 2-6-2 no 60836 takes a train off the Dundee line south out of Perth in the 1960s.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/27000/27720.jpg "Perth")
![A4 Pacific no 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> about to restart an Aberdeen - Glasgow train following a stop at Dunblane in the 1960s. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/27000/27813.jpg "Dunblane")
![60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> about to leave a grey and rain soaked Stirling station in the 1960s with an Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street train as a type 2 diesel approaches with a freight from the south.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/27000/27916.jpg "Stirling")
![An unidentified Black 5 at the south end of Stirling station in the late 50s/early 60s. Stirling Middle signal box stands in the left background with the locomotive shed beyond.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/28000/28819.jpg "Stirling")
![Black 5 no 45053 poses with a freight. View is thought (?) to have been taken to the south of Perth with the shed just over to the right. The photograph was used as part of a BR Scottish Region freight promotion in the late 1950s.<br><br>[Ken Browne Collection //]](/images/29000/29855.jpg "Perth (?)")
![A4 Pacific no 60031 <I>Golden Plover</I> calls at Stirling on a rainy day in the 1960s with an Aberdeen - Glasgow train.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/29000/29940.jpg "Stirling")
![47595 <I>'Confederation of British Industry'</I> photographed arriving with a train at Perth in the 1980s.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //]](/images/30000/30490.jpg "Perth")
![47706 'Strathclyde' arrives at Perth on an unknown date.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //]](/images/30000/30857.jpg "Perth")
![Grab shot from a train passing Perth shed in the 1960s.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //]](/images/31000/31800.jpg "Perth South")
![A class 47 at Larbert in the 1980s with a train for Aberdeen.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //]](/images/31000/31999.jpg "Larbert")
![Scene at the south end of Perth station in steam days. The locomotive is V2 2-6-2 no 60836, which was eventually withdrawn from 62B, Dundee Tay Bridge shed at the end of 1966. [See image 38284]<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/32000/32575.jpg "Perth")
![Gresley V2 2-6-2 no 60836 at the south end of Perth station in the 1960s [see image 32575].<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/38000/38284.jpg "Perth")
![Approaching Hilton Junction, thought to be in the early sixties, with a steam locomotive hauling the photographer's train and a DMU passing the box heading south.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/39000/39299.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![A4 60019 <I>'Bittern'</I> restarts from Perth in the mid 1960s with a Glasgow Buchanan Street - Aberdeen train.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41127.jpg "Perth")
![Black 5 no 45423 with an up train between Stirling and Larbert, photographed south of Plean in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/41000/41486.jpg "Plean")
![Gresley A4 Pacific no 60019 <I>Bittern</I> calls at Stirling with an Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street service in 1966. A recently arrived DMU stands alongside at platform 7.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/42000/42232.jpg "Stirling")
![A southbound train approaching Larbert in the 1990s passing a class 26 in the sidings alongside the north box.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/42000/42577.jpg "Larbert")
![Black 5 44991 waits to take a train south out of Stirling in the 1960s.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/43000/43954.jpg "Stirling")
![BR Caprotti Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73151 north of Dunblane with the 2pm Dundee - Glasgow Buchanan Street train in the mid 1960s.<br><br>[G W Robin //]](/images/48000/48338.jpg "Dunblane")
![The former 63A Perth South shed in the early 1970s, following closure and with demolition work underway. Photographed looking back from a northbound train.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //]](/images/50000/50432.jpg "Perth South")
![General view south east over Perth shed in the 1930s. [Ref query 10388]<br><br>[Bruce McCartney Collection //]](/images/55000/55719.jpg "Perth South")
![A northbound train about to call at platform 4 at Perth station in the early 1990s with what is thought to be an Edinburgh - Inverness service. The locomotive in charge is 37113 <I>Radio Highland</I> in BR Railfreight livery. [Ref query 4225]<br><br>[John Furnevel //]](/images/56000/56880.jpg "Perth")
![Another view of the locomotive featured in Mystery Image 4245 following its arrival at Perth. [See image 56880] </BR><br>
37113 had originally been withdrawn in March 1989 and was later used as a rebuild project for apprentices at Doncaster Works. Around the time of completion of the rebuild another locomotive, 37260 'Radio Highland', had entered the works having sustained serious fire damage. Following an assessment, RfD decided to obtain 37113 as a direct replacement for 37260 – including transfer of the nameplates. These were then carried by 37113 until its second and final withdrawal in August 1995, following collision damage sustained in the sidings at Portobello. 37113 was subsequently cut up on site by MC Metals. <br><br>[John Furnevel //]](/images/56000/56918.jpg "Perth")
![BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 73006 stands with a train at the south end of Perth station, thought to be in the 1950s. The locomotive had arrived at Perth shed new from Derby Works in June 1951 and remained here until January 1963. <br><br>[Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/57000/57623.jpg "Perth")
![Grab shot from a passing train, looking north along the trackbed of the Crieff branch at Gleneagles in the 1970s. The crane looks to be at work on the construction of the modern A9.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //]](/images/63000/63262.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Looking south to Hilton Junction, from a passing train in the 1970s. The former Glenfarg route can be seen bearing left.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //]](/images/63000/63281.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Aberdeen-Glasgow Express near Dunblane. C.R. 4-4-0 14499. Circa 1934<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1934]](/images/6000/6974.jpg "Dunblane")
![Oban-Glasgow Pullman Express near Dunblane. C.R. 4-6-0 14622. Circa 1934.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1934]](/images/6000/6976.jpg "Dunblane")
![Aberdeen-Glasgow Express approaching Dunblane C.R. 4-4-0 14500 & Comp 1190. Circa 1934.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1934]](/images/6000/6977.jpg "Dunblane")
![Up Express passing Stirling LMS Sheds hauled by 5P 4.6.0 44706. Stirling visit 26.8.50.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1950]](/images/9000/9564.jpg "Stirling South")
![Down freight approaching Stirling hauled by LMS class 4F 0.6.0 44253. Stirling visit 26.8.50.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1950]](/images/9000/9565.jpg "Stirling South")
![Edinburgh via Dunfermline train leaving Stirling. V3 2.6.2T 67669. Stirling visit 26.8.50.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1950]](/images/9000/9566.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Waverley-Stirling train at Stirling. V 2.6.2T 67650.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 27/10/1951]](/images/9000/9084.jpg "Stirling")
![Ex-Caledonian 4-4-0 54503 at Larbert on 21 February 1953 with a Stirling-Edinburgh Princes Street train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 21/02/1953]](/images/7000/7374.jpg "Larbert")
![A Stirling-Edinburgh Princes Street train arrives at Larbert on 21 February 1953. The locomotive is Pickersgill ex-Caledonian 4-4-0 no 54503.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 21/02/1953]](/images/53000/53290.jpg "Larbert")
![George Carnegie prepares to drive his Vauxhall Wyvern onto <i>The Anglo-Scottish Car Carrier</i> during loading at Perth in July 1956. Launched between Perth and London (Holloway) the previous year, this was the first of the services in what eventually became the BR Motorail network. [See image 4643]<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 16/07/1956]](/images/21000/21127.jpg "Perth")
![Of the 842 Stanier Black 5s built, only five carried a name during their normal operational service. One of these, no 45157 <I>The Glasgow Highlander</I>, stands at Stirling South shed c. 1958.<br>
<br><br>[K A Gray //1958]](/images/22000/22731.jpg "Stirling South")
![Pickersgill ex-Caledonian 4-4-0 no 54476 on shed at Stirling South in 1958. The locomotive was withdrawn from here in early 1960.<br><br>[K A Gray //1958]](/images/23000/23937.jpg "Stirling South")
![CR 123 following arrival at Stirling with a special in 1958.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1958]](/images/37000/37038.jpg "Stirling")
![57368 with empty stock at Perth station in April 1958.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 10/04/1958]](/images/22000/22472.jpg "Perth")
![Pickersgill 3P 4-4-0 no 54499 stands at the south end of Perth shed in April 1958, with Friarton signal box in the background. The locomotive was withdrawn from 63A in May of 1960 and disposed of through St Rollox Works in August of that year.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 10/04/1958]](/images/26000/26374.jpg "Perth South")
![44318 on shed at Stirling South on the 10th of April 1958.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 10/04/1958]](/images/30000/30840.jpg "Stirling South")
![CR 123 waits at Stirling on 10 May 1958 at the head of a special. In the background stands V3 no 67672 off Dunfermline shed, with a train for the Alloa line. <br>
<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 10/05/1958]](/images/28000/28474.jpg "Stirling")
![Black 5 no 45400 on shed at Stirling South in 1959. [Ref query 2765]<br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/9000/9184.jpg "Stirling South")
![Locomotives stabled alongside the shed at Stirling South in 1959 include ex-Caledonian 4-4-0 no 54476, withdrawn from here in March 1960. The smiling face looking back from the footplate belongs to Robin Barbour.<br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/43000/43071.jpg "Stirling South")
![Pickersgill ex-Caledonian 4-4-0 no 54476 on shed at Stirling South, thought to be in 1959.<br><br>[K A Gray //1959]](/images/51000/51301.jpg "Stirling South")
![One of the beautiful McIntosh 2P 0-4-4 tanks stored alongside Stirling South shed in May 1959. The example in question is 55222, for many years the regular locomotive on the Killin branch. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 19/05/1959]](/images/19000/19754.jpg "Stirling South")
![A dejected looking McIntosh 0-6-0T No 56365 stands with other <I>stored</I> locomotives alongside Stirling South shed in May 1959.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 19/05/1959]](/images/19000/19804.jpg "Stirling South")
![A Caprotti standard class 5 no 73153, photographed shortly after leaving Stirling with the 2pm Dundee - Glasgow Buchanan Street in September 1959 about to run past Stirling South shed.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 19/09/1959]](/images/19000/19750.jpg "Stirling South")
![Drummond 0-6-0 no 57232 stands in the yard at Stirling South on 27 December 1959. Withdrawn from here in May 1961 the locomotive was cut up at Inverurie works a year later. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 27/12/1959]](/images/30000/30940.jpg "Stirling South")
![Black 5 4-6-0 45170 of 64C Dalry Road shed about to leave Stirling with a train for Edinburgh Princes Street in 1960. <br><br>[Colin Miller //1960]](/images/20000/20035.jpg "Stirling")
![Ivatt 4F 43137 passing Perth shed with a southbound train around 1961.<br><br>[Gary Straiton Collection //1961]](/images/23000/23660.jpg "Perth")
![Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73007 at Perth MPD circa 1961.<br><br>[Ken Browne //1961]](/images/26000/26390.jpg "Perth MPD")
![The approach to Gleneagles, seen from the Crieff branch in the summer of 1961. The wagons are on the siding alongside the down main line in the V of the junction. [With thanks to all who responded to this query.]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1961]](/images/37000/37232.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Black 5 no 45389 on a southbound train at Stirling on 3 April 1961.<br><br>[K A Gray 03/04/1961]](/images/27000/27478.jpg "Stirling")
![Ferryhill's A2 Pacific no 60531 <I>Bahram</I> photographed from alongside Stirling South shed in April 1961 taking a Glasgow - Aberdeen train towards the station.<br><br>[K A Gray 03/04/1961]](/images/43000/43723.jpg "Stirling")
![Postal lineside equipment (drop-off) at Gleneagles on 26/08/61.<br><br>[David Murray-Smith 26/08/1961]](/images/62000/62518.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Railbus from Crieff approaching Gleneagles station in 1961.<br><br>[David Murray-Smith 26/08/1961]](/images/62000/62813.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A Black 5 about to head south out of Stirling station on 7th September 1961.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 07/09/1961]](/images/41000/41267.jpg "Stirling")
![A DMU for Larbert stands in platform 7 at Stirling in 1962. [See image 38889]<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1962]](/images/20000/20536.jpg "Stirling")
![Close up of the Alloa railbus at the north end of Stirling station in 1962. <br><br>[Colin Miller //1962]](/images/41000/41467.jpg "Stirling")
![Close-up of a BRCW type 2 (Class 27) standing at Stirling station in 1962.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1962]](/images/41000/41925.jpg "Stirling")
![One of Grangemouth sheds large WD Austerity 2-10-0s, no 90765, rumbles past Larbert North signal box with an up freight in 1962.<br><br>[David Stewart //1962]](/images/45000/45929.jpg "Larbert")
![NBL Type 2 D6134 passes J36 65217 <I>French</I> at Larbert on 15th June 1962<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 15/06/1962]](/images/27000/27451.jpg "Larbert")
![Photograph showing the rear of Perth shed, thought to have been taken early in 1963. The locomotives in the photograph had all been officially withdrawn by December of 1962 and were at that time awaiting disposal. This eventually occurred, in all three cases, during the Autumn of 1963, with 40150 going to Wards of Inverkeithing, 54482 to Arnott Young, Troon, and 44328 to Cowlairs.<br>
<br><br>[Gary Straiton Collection //1963]](/images/23000/23629.jpg "Perth South")
![Black 5 no 44703 on the turntable at Perth in 1963.<br><br>[Gary Straiton collection //1963]](/images/23000/23640.jpg "Perth South")
![One of Perth's <I>Top Link</I> Black 5s no 44704 stands alongside the shed's ash disposal plant with the coaling tower in the background. The photograph is thought to have been taken in 1963. [Editor's note: GS tells me that Perth locomen referred to these locomotives as <I>Hikers</I>. He also recalls working with Jimmy Edwards, regular fireman of featured locomotive 44704, who, following its withdrawal in September 1966, purchased 704's smokebox number plate. The plate currently resides with his grandson in Switzerland.] <br>
<br><br>[Gary Straiton Collection //1963]](/images/23000/23698.jpg "Perth MPD")
![Ferryhill V2 no 60972 takes a train south out of Gleneagles, thought to have been photographed in 1963, the locomotive's last year in service. Note the clear contrast between the bullhead and flat bottom rails here, as well as the barrow-crossing in place between the south ends of the main line platforms. <br>
<br><br>[Gordon Smith Collection (Courtesy Ken Browne) //1963]](/images/26000/26256.jpg "Gleneagles")
![SLS/BLS <I>Scottish Rambler No 2</I> stands at Stirling on 12 April 1963 behind CR123.<br><br>[John Robin 12/04/1963]](/images/6000/6531.jpg "Stirling")
![View from the guards van over the tender of CR123 on 12 April 1963, as <I>Scottish Rambler No 2</I> climbs Bridge of Allan bank towards Dunblane.<br><br>[John Robin 12/04/1963]](/images/6000/6532.jpg "Bridge of Allan [1st]")
![Royal Scot class No. 46128 <I>The Lovat Scouts</I> arrives at Perth from the south in May 1963.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /05/1963]](/images/40000/40694.jpg "Perth")
![A3 60041 <i>Salmon Trout</i> about to leave Perth for Glasgow with 3 hour train from Aberdeen.<br><br>[John Robin 24/05/1963]](/images/6000/6819.jpg "Perth")
![1649 from the Dornoch branch sports a <I>Royal Highlander</I> headboard at the rear of Perth Shed in 1963<br><br>[John Robin 24/05/1963]](/images/6000/6987.jpg "Perth South")
![45473 approaches Perth shed on a Glasgow train.<br><br>[John Robin 14/08/1963]](/images/6000/6821.jpg "Perth")
![60012 leaves Perth on 3 hour train from Aberdeen to Glasgow.<br><br>[John Robin 14/08/1963]](/images/6000/6822.jpg "Perth")
![46166 <I>London Rifle Brigade</I> leaves Perth with a southbound parcels train in the summer of 1963. [See image 38550]<br><br>[John Robin 14/08/1963]](/images/6000/6823.jpg "Perth")
![45153 for Perth and 45461 for Comrie at Gleneagles.<br><br>[John Robin 14/09/1963]](/images/6000/6672.jpg "Gleneagles")
![45136 leaves Gleneagles for Stirling.<br><br>[John Robin 14/09/1963]](/images/6000/6673.jpg "Gleneagles")
![44720 passes Perth shed with Northbound train.<br><br>[John Robin 14/09/1963]](/images/6000/6820.jpg "Perth")
![Carlisle Upperby Royal Scot no 46118 <I>Royal Welch Fusilier</I> stands alongside a Derby/Sulzer Type 2 in the fitting shop at Perth in November 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 23/11/1963]](/images/29000/29649.jpg "Perth South")
![A4 no 60004 <I>William Whitelaw</I> stands alongside Perth shed in November 1963 awaiting the return of several important mechanical components. The Pacific had almost 3 years operational life remaining at this stage, being eventually withdrawn from Ferryhill shed in July of 1966. Final farewell was in the yard of Motherwell Machinery & Scrap, Wishaw, in October that year. <br><br>[K A Gray 23/11/1963]](/images/31000/31541.jpg "Perth MPD")
![A4 60010 <I>Dominion of Canada</I> is about to pass Stirling South shed on 23 November 1963 shortly after restarting the 7.10am Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street. Stirling Middle box can be seen through the signal gantry.<br><br>[K A Gray 23/11/1963]](/images/45000/45405.jpg "Stirling")
![V2 2-6-2 no 60972 stands alongside Class 5 4-6-0 44976 at Stirling circa 1964<br><br>[Gordon Smith Collection (Courtesy Ken Browne) //1964]](/images/26000/26580.jpg "Stirling")
![Gresley V2 2-6-2 no 60955 taking on water at Stirling on 28 March 1964 at the head of the 3.30pm Aberdeen - Carstairs <I>postal</I>.<br>
<br><br>[K A Gray 28/03/1964]](/images/32000/32000.jpg "Stirling")
![Black 5 no 44788 pulls into Stirling on 28 March 1964 with the 5.12pm Glasgow Buchanan Street - Callander train.<br><br>[K A Gray 28/03/1964]](/images/32000/32300.jpg "Stirling")
![A2 60532 <I>'Blue Peter'</I> arrives at Stirling on 28 March 1964 with the 5.30pm Glasgow Buchanan Street - Aberdeen.<br><br>[K A Gray 28/03/1964]](/images/37000/37754.jpg "Stirling")
![Stanier Pacific no 46237 <I>City of Bristol</I> calls at Stirling on an overcast March day in 1964 with the 10.10 Euston - Perth.<br><br>[K A Gray 28/03/1964]](/images/39000/39433.jpg "Stirling")
![Gresley V2 2-6-2 no 60835 takes an up train past Stirling South shed on a murky March day in 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray 28/03/1964]](/images/41000/41204.jpg "Stirling South")
![Preserved NB 256 with the SLS/BLS <I>Scottish Rambler No 3</I> from Bonnybridge waits at Greenhill Lower station on 30 March 1964 for V2 60835 to pass with the 3.10pm Aberdeen to Glasgow 'Postal'.<br><br>[John Robin 30/03/1964]](/images/6000/6666.jpg "Greenhill Lower")
![60010 passes Greenhill with Aberdeen train.<br><br>[John Robin 30/03/1964]](/images/6000/6817.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![45016 with northbound train at Greenhill as seen from Bonnybridge line.<br><br>[John Robin 30/03/1964]](/images/6000/6818.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![View from 'Scottish Rambler No 3' on 30 March 1964, on the leg from Dunfermline Lower to Denny via Alloa Swing Bridge. The special is about to pass A4 60031 <I>Golden Plover</I> with a Glasgow Buchanan Street - Aberdeen train just south of Alloa Junction.<br><br>[John Robin 30/03/1964]](/images/51000/51983.jpg "Alloa Junction")
![The <I>Flying Scotsman Rail Tour</I>, organised by Queen's College Railway & Transport Society, stands at the north end of Perth station on 16 May 1964 prior to heading for Aberdeen.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/05/1964]](/images/24000/24811.jpg "Perth")
![A grab shot from a train passing Perth shed on 16 May 1964 captures crimson lake liveried Stanier Pacific 46244 <I>King George VI</I> standing in the yard.<br><br>[John Robin 16/05/1964]](/images/48000/48141.jpg "Perth South")
![A4 Pacific no 60006 <I>Sir Ralph Wedgwood</I> about to pass Stirling South shed with the 1.30pm Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street on a miserable Monday afternoon in May 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray 18/05/1964]](/images/40000/40216.jpg "Stirling South")
![The 5.30 pm Glasgow Buchanan Street - Aberdeen train runs into Stirling station on a wet evening in May 1964 behind A4 Pacific no 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I>. <br><br>[K A Gray 18/05/1964]](/images/43000/43649.jpg "Stirling")
![Platform scene at Gleneagles looking south in the summer of 1964. Black 5 44850 is about to leave with a northbound train on the main line, while a recently arrived train off the Crieff branch stands on the right.<br><br>[John Robin 04/07/1964]](/images/6000/6674.jpg "Gleneagles")
![45474 enters Gleneagles with Glasgow train.<br><br>[John Robin 04/07/1964]](/images/6000/6675.jpg "Gleneagles")
![View of Gleneagles on 4 July 1964, its last day as a junction. Comrie train hurries in while 44850 waits with a northbound connection on the main line.<br><br>[John Robin 04/07/1964]](/images/21000/21493.jpg "Gleneagles")
![46256 <I>Sir William A Stanier FRS</I> with an up relief service about to leave Perth in August 1964. The Pacific was withdrawn from Crewe North just over two months later and had been broken up at Cashmores, Great Bridge, by the end of the year.<br><br>[Jim Peebles /08/1964]](/images/30000/30214.jpg "Perth")
![McIntosh 2P no 55204 (or most of it) abandoned in a siding alongside Perth shed in August 1964, more than 18 months after official withdrawal. The locomotive was eventually cut up at Motherwell Machinery & Scrap, Wishaw, 4 months later. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 17/08/1964]](/images/22000/22866.jpg "Perth MPD")
![A4 Pacific 60019 <I>Bittern</I> leaves Stirling in 1965 with an Aberdeen - Buchanan Street train.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/21000/21877.jpg "Stirling")
![Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73151 on arrival at Perth with a Dundee - Glasgow train in 1965.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //1965]](/images/30000/30596.jpg "Perth")
![60019 <I>Bittern</I> about to leave Perth in bright sunshine in 1965 with a train from Aberdeen bound for Buchanan Street.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/40000/40908.jpg "Perth")
![Black 5 no 44703 takes a Glasgow train south out of Stirling in 1965 and is about to pass Stirling South MPD. Stirling Middle signal box stands in the right background. The locomotive was withdrawn by BR in December the following year and cut up at McWilliams, Shettleston, in April 1967.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/40000/40980.jpg "Stirling South")
![Shortly after leaving Stirling station in 1965, Black 5 no 45214 takes a train for Glasgow Buchanan Street past Stirling South shed (63B). An NBL Type 2 diesel can just be made out in the siding on the right. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/41000/41066.jpg "Stirling South")
![Grangemouth shed's Black 5 no 44788 about to pass through Larbert with a northbound freight in February 1965. [Ref query 14397]<br><br>[John Robin 07/02/1965]](/images/48000/48529.jpg "Larbert")
![Perth based Black 5 no 45047 passing Stirling South signal box on a dull and misty February afternoon in 1965 with a train for Aberdeen. <br><br>[John Robin 07/02/1965]](/images/50000/50209.jpg "Stirling South")
![St Rollox Black 5 44718 brings a Buchanan Street - Dundee train into Stirling in February 1965.<br><br>[John Robin 07/02/1965]](/images/50000/50765.jpg "Stirling")
![One of St Rollox shed's Caprotti valve-geared BR Standard class 5s, no 73146, calls at Stirling on a dull February afternoon in 1965 with a train for Dundee.<br><br>[John Robin 07/02/1965]](/images/50000/50796.jpg "Stirling")
![Royal Scot 46152 <I>The King's Dragoon Guardsman</I> standing in the shed yard at Stirling South on 7 February 1965, some two months before withdrawal. [Ref query 26627]<br><br>[John Robin 07/02/1965]](/images/53000/53043.jpg "Stirling South")
![State of the art steam. Caprotti valve geared standard class 5 no 73153 of St Rollox shed with a northbound service in April 1965 on the approach to Stirling.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/04/1965]](/images/18000/18077.jpg "Stirling")
![BR Standard Class 6 Pacific no 72006 'Clan MacKenzie', photographed prior to restarting a southbound freight following a signal check at Stirling in April 1965. 72006 survived another year, being finally withdrawn from Carlisle Kingmoor shed in May of 1966. Two months later Clan MacKenzie succumbed to the blowtorches of the Clan McWilliams of Shettleston. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/04/1965]](/images/22000/22346.jpg "Stirling")
![BR Standard Class 6 Pacific no 72006 <I>Clan MacKenzie</I>, at the head of a southbound freight, is held at Stirling in April 1965. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/04/1965]](/images/22000/22745.jpg "Stirling")
![A4 Pacific 60019 <I>Bittern</I> heading south at Plean on 16 April 1965 with the 1.30pm Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street train. [With thanks to Donald Hillier & Jim Watson]<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/04/1965]](/images/26000/26703.jpg "Plean")
![60004 <I>William Whitelaw</I> with the up <I>postal</I> at Stirling on 16 April 1965.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/04/1965]](/images/29000/29673.jpg "Stirling")
![60031 <I>Golden Plover</I> calls at a damp Stirling station on 16 April 1965 with an Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street service.<br><br>[K A Gray 16/04/1965]](/images/36000/36079.jpg "Stirling")
![BR Standard Pacific no 72006, minus its <I>Clan MacKenzie</I> nameplate, waits for the road at Stirling in April 1965 with the early afternoon fish train from Aberdeen destined for the North West of England.<br><br>[K A Gray 16/04/1965]](/images/36000/36863.jpg "Stirling")
![A northbound train hauled by a Type 2 locomotive photographed just south of Dunblane in June 1965. The train is about to cross the bridge over the Allan Water following which it will enter Kippenross Tunnel. [Ref query 7789] <br><br>[Colin Miller /06/1965]](/images/50000/50479.jpg "Dunblane")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> has just cleared Kippenross Tunnel south of Dunblane in June 1965 hauling one of the Aberdeen - Glasgow 3 hour express services. [See image 50479] <br><br>[Colin Miller /06/1965]](/images/50000/50489.jpg "Dunblane")
![A4 Pacific no 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> calls at Stirling in the summer of 1965 with the 5.30pm Glasgow Buchanan Street - Aberdeen train.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/06/1965]](/images/33000/33108.jpg "Stirling")
![73153 arrives at Stirling in June 1965 with the 5.35pm Glasgow Buchanan Street - Dunblane service.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/06/1965]](/images/35000/35961.jpg "Stirling")
![Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73151 runs into Stirling on 7 June 1965 with the 5.50pm Glasgow Buchanan Street - Dunblane.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/06/1965]](/images/36000/36566.jpg "Stirling")
![One of St Rollox shed's BR Caprotti Class 5 4-6-0s no 73147 calls at Stirling in the summer of 1965 with a Dundee - Buchanan Street semi-fast.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/06/1965]](/images/38000/38975.jpg "Stirling")
![BR Standard class 5 no 73148 arrives at Stirling on 7 June 1965 with the 6.15pm Glasgow Buchanan Street - Dundee.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/06/1965]](/images/39000/39318.jpg "Stirling")
![60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> taking on water at the north end of Stirling station on 7 June 1965. The train is the 5.30pm Glasgow Buchanan Street - Aberdeen.<br><br>[K A Gray 07/06/1965]](/images/51000/51681.jpg "Stirling")
![A diesel hauled freight heads south through Dunblane in 1965 when the station was still a junction for the line to Callander.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/21000/21333.jpg "Dunblane")
![A-4 No 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> descends Kinbuck bank towards Dunblane in July 1965 with the 13.30 Aberdeen to Glasgow train.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/21000/21490.jpg "Dunblane")
![Britannia Pacific 70036 <I>Boadicea</I> climbs north from Dunblane with a Crewe to Perth express in the summer of 1965. A short tunnel in the background existed here at this time.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/21000/21494.jpg "Dunblane")
![Standard Five number 73148 calls at Dunblane in July 1965 with the Glasgow portion of the Postal from Aberdeen.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/21000/21498.jpg "Dunblane")
![B1 61099 hurries through Dunblane station on 27 July 1965 with a southbound freight.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/45000/45705.jpg "Dunblane")
![Standard Class 5 4-6-0 73152 arriving at Dunblane on 27 July 1965 with a train from Glasgow.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/46000/46111.jpg "Dunblane")
![45168 pulls away from the platform at Dunblane on 27 July 1965 with a train for Callander.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/46000/46124.jpg "Dunblane")
![Gresley A4 60019 <I>Bittern</I> hurries north through Dunblane station on 27 July 1965 with the 5.30pm Glasgow Buchanan Street - Aberdeen. <br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/46000/46399.jpg "Dunblane")
![St Rollox shed's Caprotti Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73151 calls at Stirling on 27 July 1965 at the head of the 9.15am Glasgow Buchanan Street - Dundee.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/48000/48138.jpg "Stirling")
![Brush Type 4 no D1845, then a mere two months old, heads north near Dunblane at the head of the 10.15 Glasgow - Aberdeen express on 27 July 1965.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/48000/48157.jpg "Dunblane")
![The 10am Dundee - Glasgow Buchanan Street approaching Dunblane on 27 July 1965. Locomotive in charge is 73146, one of the St Rollox stud of Caprotti class 5 4-6-0s.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/48000/48222.jpg "Dunblane")
![The 4.25pm train for Inverness getting underway from Dunblane on 27 July 1965. The locomotive is thought to be Black 5 no 45084.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/48000/48406.jpg "Dunblane")
![BR Caprotti class 5 no 73149 runs into Dunblane on 27 July 1965 with a Glasgow - Inverness train.<br><br>[G W Robin 27/07/1965]](/images/48000/48643.jpg "Dunblane")
![Gresley A4 Pacific no 60026 <I>Miles Beevor</I> stands at Perth station in August 1965 with the up 'west coast postal'. The locomotive was finally withdrawn from Ferryhill shed in December that year. <br><br>[Jim Peebles /08/1965]](/images/30000/30104.jpg "Perth")
![60024 <I>Kingfisher</I> leaves Perth for Buchanan Street in the summer of 1965. <br><br>[John Robin 19/08/1965]](/images/51000/51590.jpg "Perth")
![A4 60024 <I>Kingfisher</I> with an Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street train taking on water at Perth on 19 August 1965, in front of a small but attentive audience.<br><br>[John Robin 19/08/1965]](/images/52000/52336.jpg "Perth")
![HR 103 approaching Perth from the south with the preserved Caledonian coaches on 21 August 1965 on its way to Inverness for the Highland Railway Centenary celebrations.<br><br>[John Robin 21/08/1965]](/images/49000/49085.jpg "Perth")
![60034 <i>Lord Farringdon</i> about to head south from Stirling with the 1.30pm Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street in August 1965.<br><br>[K A Gray 23/08/1965]](/images/23000/23383.jpg "Stirling")
![A4 No 60024 <I>Kingfisher</I> approaching Perth with a Glasgow to Aberdeen train in the Summer of 1965.<br><br>[G W Robin 28/08/1965]](/images/21000/21330.jpg "Perth")
![Black 5 no 44690 approaching Perth station from the south in the summer of 1965 at the head of a Glasgow - Dundee train.<br><br>[G W Robin 28/08/1965]](/images/46000/46164.jpg "Perth")
![Jones goods no 103 stops at Perth on the way south following participation in the Highland Railway centenary celebrations at Inverness in August 1965. The sleeping car standing on the right will be part of the London - Glasgow Central - Perth <I>'Night Limited'</I>, which ran between 1964 and 1987. <br><br>[K A Gray 30/08/1965]](/images/31000/31274.jpg "Perth")
![60024 <I>Kingfisher</I> about to restart the 1.30pm Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street from Larbert in the summer of 1965. <br><br>[K A Gray 31/08/1965]](/images/33000/33550.jpg "Larbert")
![A2 Pacific 60530 <I>Sayajirao</I> taking on water at the north end of Stirling station on 31 August 1965 after arriving with the 6.15pm Buchanan Street - Dundee.<br><br>[K A Gray 31/08/1965]](/images/51000/51370.jpg "Stirling")
![Neglected looking A4 Pacific no 60034 <I>Lord Faringdon</I> calls at Stirling on a dull 3 September 1965 with the 7.10am Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street.<br><br>[K A Gray 03/09/1965]](/images/49000/49771.jpg "Stirling")
![60026 <i>Miles Beevor</I> pauses at Stirling on 4 September 1965 with the LNER Society <i>'LNER Pacific Tour'</i> 1.20 pm Aberdeen - Glasgow Queen Street. Sadly, not one for the headboard connoisseur.<br><br>[K A Gray 04/09/1965]](/images/32000/32598.jpg "Stirling")
![Britannia Pacific no 70001 <I>Lord Hurcomb</I> at Stirling on 18 October 1965 with the 9.25am Crewe - Perth.<br><br>[K A Gray 18/10/1965]](/images/33000/33874.jpg "Stirling")
![The 1.30pm Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street about to restart from the Stirling stop on 18 October 1965. The locomotive is A4 Pacific no 60024 <I>Kingfisher</I>.<br><br>[K A Gray 18/10/1965]](/images/44000/44799.jpg "Stirling")
![A4 Pacific no 60019 <I>Bittern</I> at Stirling on 19 October 1965 with the 7.10am Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street.<br><br>[K A Gray 19/10/1965]](/images/35000/35692.jpg "Stirling")
![Stanier Black 5 no 45359 photographed inside its home shed at 63B Stirling South in 1965.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/10/1965]](/images/20000/20795.jpg "Stirling South")
![Gresley A4 Pacific no 60019 <I>Bittern</I> leaving Perth Station in October 1965 with the 7.10am Aberdeen - Buchanan Street train.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/10/1965]](/images/21000/21779.jpg "Perth")
![Gresley A4 Pacific no 60019 <I>Bittern</I> coasts into a rainsoaked platform at Stirling station in 1965 with the 7.10am Aberdeen - Buchanan Street train.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/10/1965]](/images/21000/21759.jpg "Stirling")
![A Britannia Pacific with a northbound train at Stirling, thought to have been photographed in 1966.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1966]](/images/23000/23865.jpg "Stirling")
![V2 2-6-2 no 60836 running through the Dundee platforms at Perth in 1966. <br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/36000/36878.jpg "Perth")
![A2 Pacific no 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> with the 1.30pm Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street waiting to restart from Stirling in the summer of 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/38000/38104.jpg "Stirling")
![One of St Rollox shed's Standard class 5 4-6-0s no 73153 with a down train at Stirling in the summer of 1966. <br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/38000/38645.jpg "Stirling")
![Black 5 no 44991 about to leave Stirling with a southbound train in the summer of 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/42000/42703.jpg "Stirling")
![A downpour at Stirling during what is thought to be the final week of steam operations on the Aberdeen - Buchanan Street route in 1966. A2 Pacific no 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> is waiting to depart with the 1.30pm ex-Aberdeen.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/43000/43418.jpg "Stirling")
![60024 <I>Kingfisher</I> on the 1.30pm Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street train at Stirling in February 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray 26/02/1966]](/images/22000/22850.jpg "Stirling")
![Class J38 0-6-0 65914 stands at Stirling with the 'Scottish Rambler no 5' railtour, in April 1966. A St Margarets locomotive for a large part of her life, 65914 moved to Thornton Junction in 1965.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 11/04/1966]](/images/20000/20617.jpg "Stirling")
![Austerity 2-8-0 90386 stands at Stirling on 11 April 1966 with the SLS/BLS/SLPF <I>Scottish Rambler No 5</I> railtour. The locomotive had brought the train from Glasgow Queen Street and was in the process of handing over to J38 65914 for the next stage of the journey, a circuitous route to Bathgate Junction.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 11/04/1966]](/images/20000/20904.jpg "Stirling")
![Ex-LNER Class J38 0-6-0 65914 about to leave Stirling with the next leg of <I>The Scottish Rambler no 5 railtour</I> bound for Menstrie on 11 April 1966.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 11/04/1966]](/images/21000/21046.jpg "Stirling")
![73149 with a northbound express between Bridge of Allan and Dunblane in June 1966.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /06/1966]](/images/23000/23166.jpg "Dunblane")
![An unidentified type 2 enters Dunblane at the head of a southbound service in June 1966.<br><br>[Colin Miller /06/1966]](/images/26000/26808.jpg "Dunblane")
![Black 5 no 44722 heads north light engine between Dunblane and Bridge of Allan in June 1966.<br><br>[Colin Miller /06/1966]](/images/32000/32726.jpg "Dunblane")
![Scene just south of Dunblane in June 1966 as 44722 hurries north light engine.<br><br>[Colin Miller /06/1966]](/images/37000/37439.jpg "Dunblane")
![A Britannia Pacific with a northbound train approaching Dunblane in June 1966.<br><br>[Colin Miller /06/1966]](/images/45000/45725.jpg "Dunblane")
![60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> arrives from the north at Stirling in the summer of 1966 with the 1.30pm Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street.<br><br>[K A Gray 25/07/1966]](/images/29000/29133.jpg "Stirling")
![Black 5 no 44796 slows past Larbert North signal box on the approach to the station with an arrival from the north on 25 July 1966. It will depart Larbert as the 6.43pm to Glasgow Buchanan Street. <br><br>[K A Gray 25/07/1966]](/images/32000/32959.jpg "Larbert")
![A2 Pacific no 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> waiting for the off at Stirling station on 25 July 1966 with the 1.30pm Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street train.<br><br>[K A Gray 25/07/1966]](/images/34000/34332.jpg "Stirling")
![A Black 5 is about to take a northbound train away from Larbert station in July 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray 25/07/1966]](/images/36000/36099.jpg "Larbert")
![Perth Black 5 no 45472 brings a train for Glasgow Buchanan Street into Larbert in July 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray 26/07/1966]](/images/28000/28578.jpg "Larbert")
![A2 Pacific no 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> calls at Stirling on 26 July 1966 with the 1.30pm Aberdeen - Glasow Buchanan Street.<br><br>[K A Gray 26/07/1966]](/images/41000/41592.jpg "Stirling")
![60836 at the south end of Perth station on a grey day in September 1966. The V2 was allocated to Dundee Tay Bridge shed (62B) at the time and remained there until final withdrawal at the end of that year. The locomotive was subsequently put to further use pending final disposal [see image 24572].<br><br>[K A Gray /09/1966]](/images/54000/54367.jpg "Perth")
![60019 at Stirling with last public run to Aberdeen.<br><br>[John Robin 03/09/1966]](/images/6000/6884.jpg "Stirling")
![60019 <I>Bittern</I> seen at Perth during her special last run to Aberdeen and back on 3 September 1966. The A4 was officially withdrawn by BR two days later.<br><br>[Colin Miller 03/09/1966]](/images/22000/22855.jpg "Perth")
![60019 <I>Bittern</I> on the last run to Aberdeen on 3 September 1966 photographed during the stop at Stirling.<br><br>[Colin Miller 03/09/1966]](/images/25000/25208.jpg "Stirling")
![60019 <I>Bittern</I> photographed at Stirling on 3 September 1966 with the last scheduled A4 run to Aberdeen.<br><br>[K A Gray 03/09/1966]](/images/34000/34185.jpg "Stirling")
![A4 Pacific 60019 <I>Bittern</I> at Stirling on 3 September 1966 with the last BR scheduled A4 hauled service between Aberdeen and Glasgow Buchanan Street. [See image 27894]<br><br>[K A Gray 03/09/1966]](/images/44000/44999.jpg "Stirling")
![A4 60019 <I>Bittern</I> photographed during the stop at Perth on 3 September 1966 with the last BR scheduled Glasgow - Aberdeen steam hauled passenger working.<br><br>[K A Gray 03/09/1966]](/images/45000/45246.jpg "Perth")
![A4 Pacific no 60019 <I>Bittern</I> calls at Stirling on 3 September 1966 with the BR Scottish Region <I>A4 Farewell Tour</I> from Glasgow Buchanan Street to Aberdeen.<br><br>[K A Gray 03/09/1966]](/images/45000/45959.jpg "Stirling")
![View south towards Perth MPD in the summer of 1967. On the left a class 24-hauled train heading for Hilton Junction is about to pass a group of 'stored' steam locomotives in one of the sidings on the east side of the main line.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1967]](/images/37000/37947.jpg "Perth South")
![<I>A railtour to remember!</I> The BR <I>Grand Scottish Tour No 1</I> at Perth on 25 March 1967. The train is double headed by Black 5 no 44997 and A4 Pacific 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I>. [Editor's notes: Roving Railscot reporter and raconteur John Robin was on this trip and recalls particularly the swing of the Black 5 as it was pushed through Stonehaven at 75 mph and out onto the viaduct. (He also remembers the whole tour cost just £5!)]</br> Another notable feature is the warm smile on the face of the unknown young girl in the centre of the picture... which seems to light up the whole scene... could almost be a descendent of <I>The Fair Maid</I> herself!<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/03/1967]](/images/22000/22971.jpg "Perth")
![4498 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> takes water at Perth on 20 May 1967 during the A4 Locomotive Society Railtour from Glasgow to Aberdeen [see image 45991].<br><br>[G W Robin 20/05/1967]](/images/46000/46034.jpg "Perth")
![D276 at Perth with the 9-coach BR <I>Scottish Grand Tour No 2</I> on 27 May 1967.<br><br>[Jim Peebles 27/05/1967]](/images/30000/30928.jpg "Perth")
![6919 heading south from Stirling with a coal train in March 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/03/1970]](/images/3000/3327.jpg "Stirling South")
![A freight passing the site of Stirling South shed on 8 March 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/03/1970]](/images/4000/4793.jpg "Stirling South")
![358 takes northbound coal empties past Stirling South box in March 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/03/1970]](/images/4000/4835.jpg "Stirling South")
![A pair of class 24 locomotives, nos. 5118 and 5117, about to leave Perthwith the 11.25 Inverness - Glasgow Queen Street train on 9th April 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 09/04/1970]](/images/32000/32372.jpg "Perth")
![NBL class 29 no 6123 continues on its journey to Glasgow Queen Street as it pulls away from Perth station on 9 April 1970 with the 15.40 ex-Dundee. [See image 32588]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 09/04/1970]](/images/32000/32645.jpg "Perth")
![Class 40 no 361 about to enter the Dundee line platforms at Perth on 9 April 1970 at the head of the 13.10 Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen train.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 09/04/1970]](/images/32000/32708.jpg "Perth")
![The 08.35 from Birmingham New Street headed by class 50 no 436 is within sight of its final destination as it approaches Perth station close to its scheduled arrival time of 16.25 on the afternoon of Thursday9th April 1970. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 09/04/1970]](/images/32000/32988.jpg "Perth")
![Class 24s nos 5116+5126 slow for the Perth stopat the head of the 14.55 Edinburgh - Inverness train on 9 April 1970.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 09/04/1970]](/images/33000/33313.jpg "Perth")
![The diesel locomotive stabling point alongside the west wall at Perth station in 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/1000/1569.jpg "Perth")
![Perth Station on 25 May 1970. 5320+5121 wait patiently with an Inverness - Edinburgh train while 260 prepares to lead the way with an Aberdeen - Glasgow working.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/2000/2944.jpg "Perth")
![<I>Will this work?</I> Platform conference at Perth as D7578 + D406 wait to depart with the morning Perth - Euston train on 25 May 1970. [See image 3726]<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/2000/2963.jpg "Perth")
![A pair of Type 2s 5320+5121 recently arrived at Perth with an Inverness - Edinburgh train on 25 May 1970. Over on the Dundee platforms EE Type 4 260 prepares to depart with an Aberdeen - Glasgow working.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/3000/3612.jpg "Perth")
![<I>'OK let's give it a go!'</I> Conference session 2 - Perth Station, 25 May 1970 [see image 2963]. (It finally left 22 minutes late).<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/3000/3726.jpg "Perth")
![Inverness - Edinburgh train arriving at Perth behind 5320+5121 in May 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/4000/4494.jpg "Perth")
![A northbound DMU passing the closed Perth shed in May 1970. The shed had officially closed in May 1967.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/4000/4573.jpg "Perth South")
![Looking south towards the closed Perth shed in 1970, with the shed clock still in place and a number of the former stabling roads being used to store lifted track.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/4000/4574.jpg "Perth South")
![The southern approaches to Perth station in 1970, with a pair of type 2s leaving with an Inverness - Edinburgh train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/4000/4575.jpg "Perth")
![Brush Type 4 1958 about to leave Perth with the morning Motorail for Kensington Olympia in May 1970 while a northbound DMU waits in the Dundee platform.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/4000/4579.jpg "Perth")
![A Glasgow Queen Street - Dundee train arrives at Perth behind D5385 on 25 May 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/4000/4580.jpg "Perth")
![The approach to Perth shed from the station in 1970, some three years after official closure. Demolition work and tracklifting are underway with redundant track lengths stacked on the former shed roads.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/1970]](/images/18000/18722.jpg "Perth South")
![Brush Type 4 no 1547 passes non-stop through Larbert station, not long after departing from Stirling on 13 June 1970 with the 16.30 Motorail service to Newton-le-Willows.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/06/1970]](/images/35000/35785.jpg "Larbert")
![A Brush Type 4 in sparkling condition, No. 1702, slows for the Labert stop at the head of the 13.15 Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen Street service on a beautiful June afternoon in 1970. The appearance <br>
of an Immingham example of the class was not uncommon (as far as I can recall) in Edinburgh, but must have been a fairly unusual sight between Glasgow and Aberdeen.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/06/1970]](/images/35000/35952.jpg "Larbert")
![View south along the stabling roads on the west side of Perth station in 1971. Class 24 no 5072 stands nearest the camera with a class 25 and a class 50 in the background.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1971]](/images/19000/19602.jpg "Perth")
![The then still fairly new power box at Perth on 3 March 1971, with part of the former NBR locomotive shed visible in the background.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/37000/37153.jpg "Perth")
![A delay on the approach to Hilton Junction from Ladybank [see image 36331] on 3 March 1971 as the 15.10 Glasgow Queen Street - Dundee sweeps past. At this distance identifying the locomotive was obviously impossible but it is almost certainly class 27 No. 5396, which worked the 17.40 Dundee - Queen Street, the train used by our party on the first leg of our return from Perth to Edinburgh.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/37000/37208.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![The driver of EE Type 4 No. 367 has judged things nicely and has managed to avoid coming to a complete stop at Hilton Junction on 3 March 1971 with the 13.02 Millerhill to Inverness class 8 freight. The freight was conveying extra brake vans for the use of members of the EURS [see image 37208].<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/37000/37572.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![EE Type 4 No. 367 leaves a blue haze over Hilton Junction on 3 March 1971 with the afternoon Millerhill to Inverness freight. The train, complete with extra brake vans conveying members of the EURS, is about to join the ex CR main line and follow the preceding Glasgow - Dundee passenger train into Perth [see image 37572].<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 03/03/1971]](/images/37000/37709.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Type 2s 5338 + 5331 heading an Edinburgh - Inverness train photographed crossing the Forth shortly after leaving Stirling station in March 1971.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/03/1971]](/images/4000/4498.jpg "Stirling Forth Viaduct")
![A pair of green NBL Type 2s, with No. 6121 leading, growling past Greenhill Lower box in June 1971 with a heavy block train of 45T oil tanks, probably destined for Bishopbriggs. Note that the signalman has been very sharp in restoring the signals to danger, although it is possible that the locos had been reduced to a crawl by this point! <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 16/06/1971]](/images/36000/36241.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![A very grubby English Electric Type 3 No. 6838 and its short train of 45T oil tanks veers right at Greenhill Lower Junction in June 1971. The train will have originated at Grangemouth and could be for a number of destinations in the West of Scotland.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 16/06/1971]](/images/36000/36316.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![Brush Type 4 no 1603 bears right at Greenhill Lower Junction on 16 June 1971 heading towards Cumbernauld with coal destined for the Lanarkshire steel industry. No 1603 was a Western Region locomotive doing a filling in turn before returning south.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 16/06/1971]](/images/36000/36464.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![An SRPS Open Day at Stirling in 1972. Barclay 0-4-0ST Clydesmill No 3 shuttles around with a Caledonian railway coach, while in the right background the coal yard seems busy enough.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1972]](/images/36000/36075.jpg "Stirling")
![Class 47 no 1861 stands at the south end of Perth station in June 1973 at the head of the 1M64 2035 Perth to Kensington Olympia Motorail and Sleeper service. [With thanks to Donald Hillier]<br><br>[John McIntyre /06/1973]](/images/29000/29505.jpg "Perth")
![24007 coupled to a Motorail vehicle at Stirling.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1974]](/images/60000/60788.jpg "Stirling")
![24009 with a train of bullhead track panels in the loops to the south of Perth. Seen from the 'Strathmore Express', returning from Forfar on 25 May 1974. Former railway works are seen in the background.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/05/1974]](/images/60000/60796.jpg "Perth")
![A young fan looks on as the <I>Speyside Express</I> enters Stirling on 18 September 1976. 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> took the special from Edinburgh as far as Perth, where 47037 took over for the journey to Aviemore. Black 5 5025 took charge at Aviemore for a trip over the Strathspey Railway to Boat of Garten. <br><br>[John Robin 18/09/1976]](/images/50000/50747.jpg "Stirling")
![A 107 set accelerates past the former loco shed. To the left Goosecroft bus station & lorry park. (Photographer thought to be Brian Forbes).<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1977]](/images/10000/10823.jpg "Stirling South")
![A Cravens DMU leaves Stirling for the north, past a service to Edinburgh.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1977]](/images/10000/10874.jpg "Stirling")
![27018+27103 leaving Stirling southbound on 4 May 1977 with a train from Inverness to Glasgow Queen Street.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/1977]](/images/4000/4807.jpg "Stirling")
![An unidentified type 2 takes a northbound train away from Stirling in May 1977.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/05/1977]](/images/4000/4834.jpg "Stirling")
![27033 shares company with 26015 at Perth following attempted self destruction. The Class 27 was repaired and operated for almost another 7 years. 3rd March 1979.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 03/03/1979]](/images/60000/60739.jpg "Perth")
![The up Clansman (47550) takes the Cumbernauld line past the former station house at Greenhill.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1980]](/images/10000/10725.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![A seldom photographed class 116 DMU at Stirling in 1980, with the first Greater Glasgow/Trans-Clyde double G logo.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1980]](/images/11000/11067.jpg "Stirling")
![A Brush Type 4 descends towards Dunblane with a train in 1980.<br><br>[John Robin //1980]](/images/46000/46825.jpg "Dunblane")
![A Type 2 diesel drops down towards Dunblane in 1980 with a train from Dundee.<br><br>[John Robin //1980]](/images/49000/49064.jpg "Dunblane")
![Originally Gresley chief engineer's saloon DE900580, built at Doncaster in 1936. The modified vehicle was used for a time as an observation coach on the West Highland Line where it carried the name <I>Loch Eil</I> and is seen here at Perth Carriage Sidings around 1980. The coach is now at WCRC Carnforth. [Ref query 5313] <br><br>[Bill Roberton
//1980]](/images/53000/53962.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![An impressive looking LMS 5025 stands at Perth on 6 July 1981 waiting to return a special to Aviemore.<br><br>[Peter Todd 06/07/1981]](/images/19000/19369.jpg "Perth")
![Class 47 hauled Aberdeen - Glasgow train leaving Stirling in August 1981.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/1981]](/images/2000/2752.jpg "Stirling")
![A pair of type 2s southbound into the sun through Stirling with the 10.18 Perth - Motherwell in August 1981. The train carried through vans destined for Manchester.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/1981]](/images/4000/4805.jpg "Stirling")
![47272 pauses at Stirling with an Aberdeen - Glasgow train in August 1981.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/1981]](/images/4000/4808.jpg "Stirling")
![The 10.15 Aberdeen - Glasgow Queen Street arrives at Stirling behind 47219 in October 1981.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/10/1981]](/images/4000/4622.jpg "Stirling")
![A Dundee - Glasgow train calls at Stirling on 20 October 1981 behind 27004.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/10/1981]](/images/4000/4641.jpg "Stirling")
![Platform scene at the south end of Stirling station in 1981.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/10/1981]](/images/6000/6275.jpg "Stirling")
![Preserved Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 no 5025 at the head of an SRPS excursion in June 1982 taking water at Perth prior to heading for Aviemore.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie /06/1982]](/images/21000/21863.jpg "Perth")
![In fading light in a field near Forteviot in June 1982 stands badly damaged Class 47 no 47522. The locomotive had been working the 1335 Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen a month earlier on 4 May, when it ran into a tractor on a farm crossing nearby. The driver had seen the obstruction and was able to reduce speed but was still running at around 50mph at the point of impact. All except the last coach of the train left the rails and plunged 35 feet down an embankment. Some 62 people, including the train crew, sustained injuries, although, fortunately, there were no fatalities. 47522 was subsequently repaired at Crewe and continued in service until 1988. The 47 became something of a celebrity for a time, carrying a unique LNER-style apple green livery.<br>
<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 05/06/1982]](/images/28000/28882.jpg "Forteviot")
![Looking north through Perth station on 5 June 1982 on the occasion of the Angus Railway Group <I>'Forfar Farewell'</I> railtour. EE Type 4 no 40143 stands in the background with the second of two round trips between Perth and Forfar [see image 27566].<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 05/06/1982]](/images/48000/48646.jpg "Perth")
![An Aberdeen - Glasgow Queen Street Push-Pull service stands at Perth on 7 June 1982 with 47708 at the rear.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/06/1982]](/images/25000/25663.jpg "Perth")
![47363 in Perth Station 07 June 1982.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/06/1982]](/images/53000/53675.jpg "Perth")
![Clansman with loco 47141 awaits station duties at Stirling, before heading south.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1983]](/images/12000/12158.jpg "Stirling")
![Cast iron platform column at Stirling in May 1983. <br><br>[David Panton /05/1983]](/images/20000/20007.jpg "Stirling")
![A local from Edinburgh joins the Scottish Central Railway at Larbert Jn.<BR/>(usual permission granted)<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1984]](/images/10000/10971.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![101s pass at Larbert, on the Dunblane/Edinburgh service. The far track is canted for speed.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1984]](/images/12000/12373.jpg "Larbert")
![60009 'Union of South Africa' approaches Forteviot with the northbound 'Fair Maid'. 14th January 1984.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 14/01/1984]](/images/58000/58205.jpg "Forteviot")
![<I>Spotters nightmare</I>. This Class 40 is at Perth -behind the wall - and there wasn't time to get round the other side to see what it was. This may well have been taken during the 'Douglas Blades Grice of Fife' tour in May 1984.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Crinan Dunbar /05/1984]](/images/63000/63357.jpg "Perth")
![47 707 <I>Holyrood</I> at Dunblane in June 1984 with a train for Aberdeen.<br><br>[David Panton /06/1984]](/images/17000/17412.jpg "Dunblane")
![1985. Second Bridge of Allan station opens. Driver slightly overshoots platform.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1985]](/images/10000/10740.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![Busy period at Stirling in 1985. Trains face south.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1985]](/images/12000/12326.jpg "Stirling")
![101 ex Glasgow arrives in platform 6 at Stirling in 1985. Centre right the old gantry is just visible.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1985]](/images/12000/12327.jpg "Stirling")
![Scene at Dunblane in 1985. The stock seemed ancient even then.<br><br>[David Panton //1985]](/images/21000/21299.jpg "Dunblane")
![Shortly before repainting in ScotRail livery as part of the BR sectorisation policy, 47 712 <I>Lady Diana Spencer</I> heads a push-pull set through Dunblane on a Glasgow Queen Street-Aberdeen service.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 09/03/1985]](/images/35000/35621.jpg "Dunblane")
![27 043 stands at Perth in April 1985.<br><br>[David Panton /04/1985]](/images/19000/19036.jpg "Perth")
![Railfair at Perth in April 1985, with 27 052 at the head of the line-up.<br><br>[David Panton /04/1985]](/images/19000/19181.jpg "Perth")
![Deltic No 9000 <I>Royal Scots Grey</I> standing on display at Inveralmond in April 1985.<br><br>[David Panton /04/1985]](/images/19000/19197.jpg "Perth")
![Highland Chieftain leaving Stirling, next stop Falkirk Grahamston. 1985. <br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/1985]](/images/10000/10813.jpg "Stirling")
![In September 1985, 47405 <I>Rail Riders</I> restarts a train for Perth and Inverness after a call at Dunblane. The loco had just been repainted in the then new <I>InterCity</I> livery, and it worked for another decade before scrapping.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /09/1985]](/images/49000/49993.jpg "Dunblane")
![Morning fog shrouds Stirling station in late September 1985. Departing southbound is an Inverness-Glasgow Queen Street service.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 29/9/1985]](/images/19000/19408.jpg "Stirling")
![A permanent way train headed by 20 213 waits for a path north at Stirling in March 1986. A Class 27 loco was attached at the other end. The signal gantry survived until April 2008 when it was replaced in connection with the reopening of the line to Alloa.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /03/1986]](/images/24000/24057.jpg "Stirling")
![1215 Dunblane - Edinburgh leaves on time. These trains arrive in Dunblane on the left hand platform.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/1986]](/images/10000/10697.jpg "Dunblane")
![4771 'Green Arrow' + 92220 'Evening Star' are buzzed at Kinbuck with the EMI Music Express. 7th April 1986.<br><br>[Graeme Blair 07/04/1986]](/images/59000/59269.jpg "Kinbuck")
![Platform 6 at Stirling in June 1986 with 101 345 about to leave on a service to Edinburgh.<br><br>[David Panton /06/1986]](/images/19000/19940.jpg "Stirling")
![Saturday afternoon shoppers disembark from a Glasgow Queen Street - Perth working on a very warm June 14th 1986. This was one of the last passenger workings on the line one could expect to be Class 27 hauled. While waiting at Queen Street to leave on one of these services, a young rail enthusiast came into my compartment and declared that I'd better prepare for a long journey. He reckoned that there were too many coaches for the Class 27 at the head of the train to lift up Cowlairs incline. Incredibly, he was right - the train stalled mid-incline, services out of Queen Street were disrupted, a class 37 had to be sent to the rescue and I got home an hour late. Respect!<br><br>[Mark Dufton 14/06/1986]](/images/19000/19413.jpg "Dunblane")
![During the 1980s, there were two named daytime through trains between Inverness and London, the Highland Chieftan (Kings Cross) and the Clansman (Euston). The up Clansman is shown here passing through the Laighills in Dunblane behind 47 630 in September 1986. It is identifiable by the red carriage stripe (then blue for ScotRail stock). Whereas the Chieftan called at Edinburgh and needed no change of loco north of the border, the Clansman had to bypass Glasgow and change haulage for the WCML. From 1987, the Clansman was diverted via Edinburgh, with the result that it took over 90 minutes longer to reach London than its rival. It was eventually withdrawn as a through service in 1992.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /09/1986]](/images/23000/23744.jpg "Dunblane")
![Locomotive 27 054 prepares to pull away from Dunblane with a Saturday afternoon Perth - Glasgow Queen Street working in September 1986. At the time, this was one of the last regular passenger workings with Class 27 haulage.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /09/1986]](/images/31000/31279.jpg "Dunblane")
![A host of features and activities have vanished from Stirling station since this photo was taken in 1986. Gone from this scene are the coal depot, the freight sidings, the Motorail facilities and the station pilot (08 620). Shunting the yard is 27 042 while the Motorail stock awaits departure.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /10/1986]](/images/23000/23741.jpg "Stirling")
![47482 heads uphill to Greenhill Upper with an Inverness train for Queen Street.<BR/>The housing in the background is Bonnybridge.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /12/1986]](/images/11000/11115.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![Christmas Eve 1986 in Dunblane sees snow, treacherous ice and the 07.56 push-pull express from Dundee to Glasgow Queen Street calling at the station. The DMU in the bay is the following stopping service to Glasgow. The Victorian signal gantry once boasted four semaphores controlling departures to Perth and Callander, but by this date, only one remained for the Perth route. The gantry was replaced by a much simpler post in 1988.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 24/12/1986]](/images/49000/49987.jpg "Dunblane")
![2A35 headcode at Stirling? This is the 1335 Dunblane to Queen Street. 1987<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1987]](/images/10000/10887.jpg "Stirling")
![104 set heads to Stirling under the new southern bypass. To the left Stirling Castle and to the right the Wallace Monument. The mountains to the north are snowcovered.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /01/1987]](/images/11000/11007.jpg "Bannockburn")
![The up Inverness-Euston 'Clansman' is about to pass the lofty Plean signal box on a Saturday in March 1987. Loco 47457 is in charge of a smart looking rake of Mark 3 stock. This named train, the signal box and even the road bridge are now long gone.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /03/1987]](/images/54000/54307.jpg "Plean")
![In 2011, the survival of the remaining through Inverness-London services was called into question. An earlier casualty had been the Inverness-Euston <I>Clansman</I> which withered away in the early 1990s. This photo, taken just north of Dunblane in April 1987, shows the up <I>Clansman</I> in its finest and fastest form, composed of new executive liveried Mk3 coaching stock and routed via Coatbridge. Unfortunately, its competition with the <I>Highland Chieftain</I> had already been conceded and a few weeks later the <I>Clansman</I> was diverted to run via Edinburgh, substantially increasing journey time, and downgraded to older coaching stock. From then on, its days were numbered.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /04/1987]](/images/36000/36541.jpg "Dunblane")
![Greenhill Junction main line home signal holds up a Railfreight 37. Driver at phone. A Glasgow Queen Street - Dunblane 101 passes by. Between the two lines was Bonnybridge Junction, removed in early 1970s.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 01/04/1987]](/images/10000/10501.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![SPTE 107 passing Carmuirs housing scheme. Train from Glasgow to Falkirk via Lenzie. The three bings are near Roughcastle.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/05/1987]](/images/11000/11134.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![Early morning sunshine highlights 47707 and its push-pull rake in the bay at Dunblane in June 1987. It will shortly propel up to the signal box to reverse and form the 0709 departure to Edinburgh.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /06/1987]](/images/54000/54324.jpg "Dunblane")
![47 with the longest name, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, calls at Larbert bound for Aberdeen.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/1987]](/images/11000/11387.jpg "Larbert")
![The driver of a Dunblane-Edinburgh DMU waves to a colleague on a Glasgow-Dunblane working just north of Bridge of Allan station in October 1987. The photo was taken from the front of the latter train. Unusually for a service to Edinburgh, the approaching DMU is in orange/black SPTE livery.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /10/1987]](/images/50000/50002.jpg "Bridge of Allan [1st]")
![Christmas Eve 1987 finds a local service from Edinburgh terminating at Dunblane shortly before the holiday shutdown. This close up reveals the woeful state of the DMU stock at the time and it is a minor miracle that Haymarket depot managed to keep such life-expired units patched up and on the road.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 24/12/1987]](/images/42000/42576.jpg "Dunblane")
![Class 47 hauling a passenger train north past Plean Junction. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/0/812.jpg "Plean Junction")
![Larbert Junction looking south. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8353.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Eastbound DMU heads south from Larbert to Larbert Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8355.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Larbert looking south from beside the signalbox. The old station building is on the right. The line here was quadrupled to let non-stop traffic pass trains in the platforms. There were bays at the south end.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8356.jpg "Larbert")
![26 with empty molasses from Menstrie runs south through Larbert.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8358.jpg "Larbert")
![Looking north at the sidings north of Larbert.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8359.jpg "Larbert")
![DMUs pass just north of Larbert station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8360.jpg "Larbert")
![Hybrid DMU northbound from Larbert.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8361.jpg "Larbert")
![Hybrid DMU heads north from Larbert past the old station building.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8362.jpg "Larbert")
![Southbound 477 train at Plean Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8363.jpg "Plean Junction")
![A 477 propels a train south from Plean Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8364.jpg "Plean Junction")
![Southbound DMU at Plean Junction viewed from the box. Old station building on right. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8365.jpg "Plean Junction")
![Plean Junction box viewed from the south. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8366.jpg "Plean Junction")
![A 37 pulls a permanent way train south past the former Plean station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8367.jpg "Plean Junction")
![Looking east at Muirton on the Polmaise colliery line. The embankment of the A91 now crosses the now lifted and closed line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8368.jpg "Muirton")
![Looking east to Polmaise. The location from which the camera was taken is now the A91. The line is closed and lifted.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8369.jpg "Muirton")
![Polmaise Box, now demolished, at Polmaise Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8370.jpg "Polmaise Junction")
![Polmaise Colliery from the west. Access by kind permission of NCB.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8371.jpg "Polmaise Colliery")
![Polmaise Colliery from the east. Access by kind permission of NCB.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8372.jpg "Polmaise Colliery")
![26 015 waits with southbound freight at Stirling. The goods yard at Stirling is no more.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8373.jpg "Stirling")
![Stirling goods yard looking north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8376.jpg "Stirling")
![DMU leaves Stirlings NB platforms.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8377.jpg "Stirling")
![26 waits to leave Stirling with goods train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8381.jpg "Stirling")
![Motorail at Stirling. View looks south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8382.jpg "Stirling")
![Stirling goods yard looking south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8383.jpg "Stirling")
![Stirling goods yard looking south. The goods yard has been lifted.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8384.jpg "Stirling")
![Approaching Stirling from the north. Viewed from Stirling Castle and the Wallace Monument and Ochil hills provide a backdrop.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8385.jpg "Stirling")
![Southbound train crossing the viaduct north of Stirling.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8386.jpg "Stirling Forth Viaduct")
![Looking south at Stirlings main platforms.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8822.jpg "Stirling")
![Southbound 47 at Stirling.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8823.jpg "Stirling")
![Utterly infuriating. 125 and moon at Stirling. The moon reflects on the platforms and oh. C41 process 22---0. Last frame of film. Drat.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8824.jpg "Stirling")
![Stirling departure board in the circulating area in 1988.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8963.jpg "Stirling")
![Inverness bound train entering Stirling.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8964.jpg "Stirling")
![Northbound 47 hauled train at Dunblane.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8967.jpg "Dunblane")
![DMU terminates at Dunblane.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8968.jpg "Dunblane")
![Two DMUs at Dunblane looking south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8969.jpg "Dunblane")
![Northbound 37 running light passing Hilton Junction box on the approach to the junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8970.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![A 477 from Aberdeen takes the Glasgow road at Hilton Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8971.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Signal gantry at Hilton Junction. The left signal is for the Edinburgh route and right for the Glasgow route.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8972.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![North portal of Moncrieffe Tunnel, Perth.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8973.jpg "Moncrieffe Tunnel")
![Southern portal of Moncrieffe Tunnel.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8974.jpg "Moncrieffe Tunnel")
![Inverness bound train in Perth station. This was one of the platforms created in the huge rebuild of Perth General.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8976.jpg "Perth")
![View looking south from St Leonards Bridge. The signalbox stands where the NB locomotive shed stood.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8977.jpg "St Leonards")
![Perth Carriage sidings. There were a good few preserved coaches here.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8978.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![DMUs in the carriage sidings at Perth.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8979.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![DMUs in the carriage sidings at Perth.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8981.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![Looking across to the Inverness platforms over the Dundee platforms.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8982.jpg "Perth")
![Perth Harbour - this harbour is still busy and there are proposals to re-build the short branch to it.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8986.jpg "Perth Harbour")
![Remains of the Perth Harbour branch which left the mainline in the vicinity of Perth MPD.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8987.jpg "Perth Harbour")
![Looking north to Perth alongside the former site of Perth MPD (left).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8989.jpg "Perth MPD")
![Vans await their fate on the other side of the line from the former Perth MPD. Curiously this footbridge led to the unfenced trackbed on this side at the time.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8990.jpg "Perth MPD")
![477 heads north towards Perth. The route of the line to Perth Harbour can be seen to the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8991.jpg "Perth MPD")
![Aberdeen bound 477 passes the site of Perth MPD.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8992.jpg "Perth MPD")
![Looking south towards Moncrieffe Tunnel. Perth MPD was on the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8993.jpg "Perth MPD")
![DMU for the south rests in the southbound bay platforms at Perth in the original station trainshed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8997.jpg "Perth")
![Looking north to St Leonards bridge at Perth.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8999.jpg "Perth St Leonards")
![<i>My vacuums bigger than your scooter!</i> Perth getting a good clean.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/9000/9000.jpg "Perth")
![Livestock being unloaded on the run up to Christmas at Stirling. A consignment of turkeys. Unloading by driver Matthews?<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1988]](/images/10000/10893.jpg "Stirling")
![Although Blackford passenger station closed in 1956, evidence still remains.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1988]](/images/10000/10911.jpg "Blackford")
![View of the cabin on the west side of the main line, south of Stirling. Unfortunately it has succumbed to modernisation, gone.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1988]](/images/10000/10953.jpg "Polmaise Junction")
![Clansman passing south through Larbert 1988<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1988]](/images/11000/11000.jpg "Larbert")
![47711 rushes downhill between Greenhill Upper and Lower Junctions. Note one coach in Blue/grey. The Caledonian mainline runs down the right side of the shot.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1988]](/images/11000/11293.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![47718 accelerates northward between the Greenhill Junctions to Stirling and Aberdeen.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1988]](/images/12000/12702.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![One of the minor mysteries in the history of the Dunblane, Doune and Callander railway is this apparent attempt to relay and re-use part of it during the 1980s. This photo shows how, in March 1988, a stretch of the track bed leading up to the former junction at Dunblane was cleared of vegetation and re-ballasted. It looked as if there was a plan to extend and upgrade the remaining stub of the line (visible in the distance) as a reversal/layover siding for local services clear of the mainline. However, all work stopped shortly after the photo was taken, suggesting that if there was such an intention, it was suddenly abandoned in favour of a timetabling solution.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /03/1988]](/images/59000/59788.jpg "Dunblane")
![Scene at Dunblane in March 1988, with a Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen push-pull set thundering non-stop through the station. The signal gantry will not survive much longer and 158 units will take over the service two years later.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 22/03/1988]](/images/19000/19428.jpg "Dunblane")
![08561 sits while driver visits goods office, in Stirling Yard<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/1988]](/images/12000/12365.jpg "Stirling")
![26041 with molasses bound for Menstrie.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 12/05/1988]](/images/12000/12250.jpg "Stirling")
![27005 hauls a bogie tank northwards, through Greenhill to Larbert.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /06/1988]](/images/11000/11114.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![Green liveried 47522 <I>Doncaster Enterprise</I>, takes the Euston-Inverness Sleeper north through the Dunblane Laighills at 5.30 a.m. one morning in June 1988. This was a long and heavy train, carrying cargo such as newspapers as well as sleeping passengers. To obtain a similar photo today of the much shorter and faster Caledonian Sleeper, one would need to knock on someone's door and ask to stand in their kitchen at 5.15 a.m!<br><br>[Mark Dufton /06/1988]](/images/25000/25434.jpg "Dunblane")
![<I>The train at platform one is err on fire</I>. Locomotive 47 703 <I>St Mungo</I> hisses and spits as the Dunblane fire crew douses an engine room fire one morning in July 1988. Heading the 7.44 service to Edinburgh, 47 703 looked unusually clean and perhaps freshly overhauled, giving rise to the suspicion that after a recent reassembly a few parts might have been left over<br><br>[Mark Dufton /07/1988]](/images/22000/22421.jpg "Dunblane")
![Looking south from St Leonard's Bridge over the demolished NBR loco shed with the powerbox beyond.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /07/1988]](/images/52000/52673.jpg "Perth")
![Looking north over the sidings on the west side of the station in July 1988. By 2015 almost all had been lifted.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /07/1988]](/images/52000/52674.jpg "Perth")
![In the late 1980s, ScotRail became well known for retrieving life-expired DMUs from around the UK and creating <I>Frankenstein</I> sets that subsequently lurched around Central Scotland wheezing clouds of diesel fumes. <I>Swindon</I>, <I>Cravens</I>, <I>Derby</I>, <I>Birmingham</I> and <I>MetCam</I> cars were variously mixed and reshuffled as one or other car suffered terminal failure. Shown here is a Swindon/MetCam hybrid heading towards Stirling in September 1988 with a Swindon car at the rear. On the left is Polmaise box and on the right is the disused Polmaise colliery branch.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 29/09/1988]](/images/20000/20231.jpg "Polmaise Junction")
![Two LNER teak bodied carriages at Perth's carriage sidings in departmental use. Does anyone know more about them and their fate?<br><br>
Updates from replies:<br><br>
They were used as accommodation for the carriage cleaners and were remarkably intact. Fixtures such as LNE mirrors etc. survived.<br><br>
RB 24080 is now on the Great Central see <a target='external' href='http://www.rvp-ltd.org.uk/collection.php?vehicle=24080'>Railway Vehicle Preservations - RB 24080</a>.<br><br>
TTO 23981 is also on the Great Central see <a target='external' href='http://www.rvp-ltd.org.uk/collection.php?vehicle=23981'>Railway Vehicle Preservations - TTO 23981</a>.<br><br>
<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/11/1988]](/images/54000/54143.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![DMU about to head south at Stirling. Note lights in distant Stirling Middle box.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/11/1988]](/images/8000/8821.jpg "Stirling")
![Bishopbriggs - Grangemouth empty tanks at Greenhill Lower Junction in 1988 behind a class 37.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/12/1988]](/images/5000/5712.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![A westbound DMU runs through Greenhill Lower Junction on a bright and sunny 13 December 1988, shortly after leaving Falkirk Grahamston.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/12/1988]](/images/5000/5713.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![A class 47 with a Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen train approaching Greenhill Lower Junction on 13 December 1988.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/12/1988]](/images/5000/5714.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![Dunning signalbox, now demolished. View looks north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/7000/7679.jpg "Dunning")
![A down semaphore signal at Dunning, now abolished.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/7000/7680.jpg "Dunning")
![From left, Platform 1, Fuel Bay and fuel tanks. All Gone . Yes its a carpark now.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1989]](/images/10000/10957.jpg "Stirling")
![A refusal by Plean sb results in this train being stopped at Polmaise. it is the 1130 Inverness to Glasgow<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1989]](/images/11000/11009.jpg "Polmaise Junction")
![New trains for the Edinburgh - Dunblane service. Class 150 sprinter with large doors, for easier loading.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1989]](/images/11000/11410.jpg "Stirling")
![47/7 for Aberdeen rushes past Polmaise and St Ninians LC<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1989]](/images/12000/12252.jpg "Polmaise Junction")
![Stirling in 1989. Looking south through the station.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1989]](/images/12000/12349.jpg "Stirling")
![A 477 turns the sky blue one late summer evening as it leaves Dunblane heading north. A DMU to the left lies over before returning south and a tamper shelters in the cut back Callander and Oban line. The box has since been re-painted white.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/25000/25415.jpg "Dunblane")
![Dunning signalbox, looking to Perth, on a sweltering day in 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/28000/28922.jpg "Dunning")
![101.347, with inaccurate destination blind, heads south from Stirling past the site of Stirling shed, then in use as sidings south of the goods yard.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/54000/54268.jpg "Stirling")
![A pair of 20s paused in light snow at Dunblane with a southbound timber train in 1989. This train would set back at Stirling goods for a while on the way south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/59000/59718.jpg "Dunblane")
![A view of the bridge which linked Gleneagles station to the ticket office (now a house), note the blocked up access at the far end. The bridge spanned the tracks of the Crieff platform and goods lines. The bridge has since been removed and the new road access from the A823 partly follows the trackbed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/60000/60363.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A 477 train sleeps on the west side of Perth station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/01/1989]](/images/8000/8826.jpg "Perth")
![26 021 sleeps in the southbound bay platform on the west side of Perth station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/01/1989]](/images/8000/8827.jpg "Perth")
![Saint Cuthbert at Perth. View looks north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/01/1989]](/images/8000/8828.jpg "Perth")
![<i>Cant find the %'&$ keys.</i> Driver Andy Malcolm arrives to start St Cuthbert.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/01/1989]](/images/8000/8829.jpg "Perth")
![Perth looking north. Inverness line ahead and carriage shed with carriages, 477 rolling stock, DMUs and Sprinters to right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/01/1989]](/images/8000/8830.jpg "Perth")
![A Sprinter pauses before leaving the carriage sidings at Perth station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/01/1989]](/images/8000/8831.jpg "Perth")
![Finally, running about 2 hours late, the Edinburgh portion of a combined Edinburgh and Glasgow train to Inverness arrives at Perth on 3 January 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8832.jpg "Perth")
![Finally, about 2 hours late, the Edinburgh portion of a combined Edinburgh and Glasgow train to Inverness arrives. 47 632 takes charge. View looks north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8833.jpg "Perth")
![On a frosty morning in January 1989, a Glasgow - Falkirk class 101 DMU heads north over the former double lead junction.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/01/1989]](/images/16000/16351.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![A relaxed signalman watches a Glasgow - Inverness train accelerating past Larbert Junction in 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/02/1989]](/images/52000/52664.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A class 101 DMU going up the branch to the Upper box at Greenhill. The former station house to the left.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /03/1989]](/images/15000/15710.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![In the late 1980s, the weekday 07.10 Dunblane to Edinburgh service was a 47/7 Push-Pull duty. The train arrived from Stirling in the bay platform at Dunblane shortly after 06.30 and then reversed at Dunblane North Box. This view was taken around 06.45 one morning in April 1989 when the temperature was so low that diesel had frozen in the tanks of lorries parked nearby. <br><br>[Mark Dufton /04/1989]](/images/21000/21329.jpg "Dunblane")
![The 09.25 Glasgow Queen Street to Aberdeen ScotRail Express hauled by 47 703 speeds past Blackford village in April 1989, its DBSO at the rear. The following year, an hourly service of Class 158 DMUs replaced these push-pull sets. The DBSOs ended up paired with Class 86 locos on the (then) newly electrified London to Norwich service.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /04/1989]](/images/38000/38172.jpg "Blackford")
![<i>Highland Chieftain</i> southbound through Gleneagles in 1989 in BR InterCity colours and logo.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/1989]](/images/11000/11113.jpg "Gleneagles")
![101 for Glasgow passes Larbert North sb in 1989.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /06/1989]](/images/12000/12246.jpg "Larbert")
![The first generation DMU stabling area adjacent to Platform 1 at Stirling in June 1989. The veteran units present – two Class 107 and a Swindon-MetCam hybrid – were close to the end of their working lives. The area later became a car park. Probably the last regular passenger service to use Platform 1 was the 17.58 Stirling to Bridge of Allan and Dunblane. This ran 1985-1986 as a connecting service for the newly re-opened Bridge of Allan station. <br><br>[Mark Dufton /06/1989]](/images/63000/63206.jpg "Stirling")
![A lower quadrant signal by Stirling goods office (to the immediate left) in 1989 with the goods sidings beyond in a south east looking view. The station was off to the right. At this date not much traffic originated from the yard but the sidings were used for marshalling trains for the south and part of the yard was in use as a dirt car park.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 07/09/1989]](/images/55000/55407.jpg "Stirling")
![View south from Stirling station towards Stirling Middle signal box in October 1989.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /10/1989]](/images/40000/40979.jpg "Stirling")
![A 47 on an Inverness-Glasgow train approaches Larbert Junction. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/9000/9138.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![26 041 passes Larbert Junction taking the Edinburgh road with Menstrie - York/Kings Lynn empties. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/9000/9139.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Northbound DMU passing the loops north of Larbert station. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/9000/9141.jpg "Larbert")
![A southbound <i>Super Sprinter</i> crosses Earn Viaduct at Forgandenny during the long hot summer of 1990. This is what the viaduct looks like at low water. (Incidentally is that the remains of the original timber viaduct just peeping out of the riverbed on the left?)<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/32000/32350.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![26036 reverses a ballast train into the ballast loading depot which was formerly located at Larbert. The view is from the signalbox and looks north in 1990.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/36000/36280.jpg "Larbert")
![A then new <i>SuperSprinter</i> 156483 on a Glasgow service passes Polmaise Junction box and sidings, south of Stirling, in the summer of 1990.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/38000/38013.jpg "Polmaise Junction")
![The old bridge at Greenhill Lower in 1990, since replaced. [See image 6666]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/51000/51315.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![A northbound train runs through the original Bridge of Allan station site, north of the overbridge, in 1990.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/51000/51341.jpg "Bridge of Allan [1st]")
![The lever frame in Hilton Junction signal box in 1990. [Ref query 7919]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/51000/51360.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![A Glasgow - Aberdeen train about to pass under the Forth and Clyde Canal on the approach to Carmuirs West Junction in 1990.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/51000/51377.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![60009 'Union of South Africa' (during the 'Osprey' period) passes Auchterarder with the southbound 'Elizabethan' special in 1990. The box was switched out. This photograph was taken to compare with R Hobbs photograph in 'Scottish Steam in Colour' page 47. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/53000/53453.jpg "Auchterarder")
![60009 heading south at Auchterarder in 1990 with 'The Forth Centennial'. Clearly a busy year for 'Osprey' [see image 53453].<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1990]](/images/53000/53476.jpg "Auchterarder")
![Northbound Sprinter 156496 passes Auchterarder box in 1990, viewed from the end of the platform at the former station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/53000/53477.jpg "Auchterarder")
![DMU crossing Kippenross Viaduct just south of Dunblane in 1990. The DMU is about to enter Kippenross Tunnel which is immediately to the right. This was an unnecessary tunnel which was required by the landowner to avoid despoiling of his land.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/53000/53550.jpg "Dunblane")
![Unidentified 47 heading northwards in 1990 at Blackford.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/53000/53560.jpg "Blackford")
![Southbound DMU passing the splitting distant (set for Greenhill) just south of the loops north of Larbert station in 1990. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/55000/55419.jpg "Larbert")
![47706 on a run north through Greenloaning in 1990. The locomotive later halted and reversed at Blackford.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/55000/55660.jpg "Greenloaning")
![HST heading north over the viaduct just north of Dunblane station. The C&O line was to the right. To the left is the cathedral, with portions of the tower dating from the 11th century.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/56000/56743.jpg "Dunblane")
![Gently does it. 20165, and friend, pass Carmuirs West box at low speed in 1990. An operation to replace long bladed points, to allow higher speed running, the previous night had gone badly, and the originals had been re-fitted. This train was heading east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/58000/58283.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![A cheeky southbound 156 nips ahead of a 47 at Carmuirs West Junction in 1990.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/58000/58292.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![Obstruction Danger! In May 1990 a wagon on a northbound freight derailed on the points north of Larbert into the path of the 8.12 ex Dunblane DMU. Fortunately for the photographer, the DMU has just completed its emergency stop, but with not that much to spare. The damaged wagon was eventually removed and subsequently languished in the sidings at Larbert for a further 12 years!<br><br>[Mark Dufton /05/1990]](/images/18000/18193.jpg "Larbert")
![Interior view of Stirling Middle 'box during an official tour on 13 May 1990. [See image 23746]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/05/1990]](/images/39000/39286.jpg "Stirling")
![Interior of Stirling North signal box, May 1990. [See image 28834]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/05/1990]](/images/39000/39304.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![37403 passes Stirling Middle signalbox to couple on to the stock of an excursion train on 13 May 1990.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/05/1990]](/images/40000/40199.jpg "Stirling")
![Looking north from Stirling Middle signalbox towards the station. On the right there is some freight traffic and pilot 08630 is waiting in a siding. Taken during an escorted visit in May 1990.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/05/1990]](/images/63000/63636.jpg "Stirling")
![Stirling pilot 08630 parked in the station in May 1990, with a busy freight scene in the background. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/05/1990]](/images/63000/63651.jpg "Stirling")
![Class 37 no 37 170 moves through Perth station with an engineers train in June 1990, passing A4 Pacific no 60009 (then carrying the name 'Osprey') standing at platform 7 with the <I>Osprey Express</I> special.<br><br>[Sandy Steele /06/1990]](/images/24000/24155.jpg "Perth")
![Old NBR station building and lift at Stirling where a 107 lies over in between trips to Glasgow.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /10/1990]](/images/11000/11509.jpg "Stirling")
![Unusual shot of a class 150 picking up in platform 9. The former NBR white building opened by the S&D Rly in 1852 was demolished 2001.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1991]](/images/10000/10745.jpg "Stirling")
![101 twin set pauses at Larbert bound for Glasgow.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1991]](/images/12000/12340.jpg "Larbert")
![158725 heads south from Gleneagles in 1991.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /01/1991]](/images/57000/57527.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A Strathclyde PTE liveried Class 107 “Derby” unit pulls into Dunblane station in June 1991 with a service to Glasgow. Such old generation DMUs were becoming scarce at the time, increasingly displaced by Class 150, 156 and 158 units. The concrete block in the foreground supported a footbridge exit from platforms 2 and 3 to the west side of the station.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /06/1991]](/images/55000/55658.jpg "Dunblane")
![Scene on the west side of Perth station in July 1991. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore /07/1991]](/images/31000/31861.jpg "Perth")
![37424 stands at Stirling in July 1991 with the <I>'Royal Scotsman'</I>.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /07/1991]](/images/35000/35244.jpg "Stirling")
![A pair of class 26s stand in the bay at Perth in July 1991.<br><br>[John McIntyre 06/07/1991]](/images/11000/11148.jpg "Perth")
![Old carriages in the sidings to the west of Perth station in July 1991, including an ex-LNER parcels brake and a mk 1 sleeping car with a sign on the side reading <I>Fulmar Express</I>.<br><br>[John McIntyre 06/07/1991]](/images/17000/17035.jpg "Perth")
![A view north over the west side of Perth station in July 1991. A pair of Class 26s can be seen in bay platform 6 on the left, while a Class 158 DMU is about to leave with a southbound service from platform 3 on the right. Not sure about the alien spacecraft on platform 4...<br><br>[John McIntyre 06/07/1991]](/images/24000/24463.jpg "Perth")
![158 country. A view across the platforms at the south end of Perth station in July 1991.<br><br>[John McIntyre 06/07/1991]](/images/48000/48363.jpg "Perth")
![Larbert Junction signal box from a northbound railtour coming from the Falkirk direction.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1992]](/images/58000/58080.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Polmaise signal box viewed from a northbound railtour.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1992]](/images/58000/58088.jpg "Polmaise Junction")
![Hole in the wall, west side of Perth station, July 1992.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/07/1992]](/images/4000/4577.jpg "Perth")
![View north east over Perth station on 16 July 1992 with the up <I>Highland Chieftain</I> recently arrived at platform 4.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/07/1992]](/images/6000/6373.jpg "Perth")
![A BR InterCity 125 HST leaves Perth for the south in the summer of 1992 with the up <I>Highland Chieftain</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/07/1992]](/images/52000/52749.jpg "Perth")
![The south end of Perth station in July 1992, with a BR InterCity 125 HST forming the up Inverness - London Kings Cross <I>Highland Chieftain</I> about to restart from platform 4.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/07/1992]](/images/53000/53054.jpg "Perth")
![Edinburgh to Dunblane new sprinter rounds the northbound curve before joining the main line.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1993]](/images/11000/11154.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![150261 calls at platform 3 with an Edinburgh local service. 158704 is an express for Aberdeen.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1993]](/images/12000/12454.jpg "Stirling")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> takes the Stirling line at Hilton Junction in 1993<br><br>[Ken Browne //1993]](/images/24000/24921.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> coming off the Glenfarg line at Hilton Junction in 1993.<br><br>[Ken Browne //1993]](/images/25000/25327.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![A4 Pacific no 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> passing the site of Blackford station in 1993 with a northbound special.<br><br>[Ken Browne //1993]](/images/25000/25658.jpg "Blackford")
![47635 Jimmy Milne arriving for official naming. The trade union celebrity smashed a bottle of Glenmorangie against a buffer (not).<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1994]](/images/10000/10955.jpg "Stirling")
![In late 1994 Gleneagles station was illuminated by temporary lash-up lights (and stars). This view is from the former Crieff platform showing the canopy at the north end.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1994]](/images/38000/38463.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A southbound 158 passes the remains of Greenloaning station in August 1994.<br><br>[John McIntyre 12/08/1994]](/images/12000/12416.jpg "Greenloaning")
![Evening view south from Perth station in 1995.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1995]](/images/42000/42288.jpg "Perth")
![Stirling on a frosty evening in January 1995 and a view south from the footbridge which connects the main station with Platforms 9 and 10. The building on the left did not survive much longer.<br><br>[David Panton 05/01/1995]](/images/28000/28931.jpg "Stirling")
![Cast iron light fitting on the footbridge between plastforms 6 and 9/10 at Stirling in January 1995. Platform columns in this pattern [see image 20007] had only recently been replaced. The fittings on the bridge survive, though they have heritage-style imitation gas lamps (made by Sugg, who made station gas lamps and are still around) and the paintwork is all black.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 05/01/1995]](/images/52000/52326.jpg "Stirling")
![Hand drawn Track Diagram of Stirling North Signalbox<br><br>[Colin Harkins /ci/1995]](/images/10000/10746.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Clear road to Carmuirs East signalled south from Larbert Junction in July 1996.<br><br>[David Panton //1996]](/images/18000/18369.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A snowy evening sees a southbound 158 at Gleneagles in 1996.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1996]](/images/52000/52734.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Southbound 150 284 approaching Larbert Junction in July 1996 with an Edinburgh service. <br><br>[David Panton /07/1996]](/images/18000/18350.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![158 745 approaching Larbert Junction in July 1996 with a service for Glasgow Queen Street. <br><br>[David Panton /07/1996]](/images/21000/21537.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![158 720 heads north at Larbert Junction in July 1996.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton /07/1996]](/images/22000/22468.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A 37 passes through Stirling with a Aberdeen - Mossend freight on 8 October 1996.<br><br>[Bill Roberton
/10/1996]](/images/53000/53928.jpg "Stirling")
![Larbert North signal box in June 1997.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/06/1997]](/images/51000/51449.jpg "Larbert")
![47 790 <Saint David> stabled at bay Platform 6, Perth in February 1998<br><br>[David Panton /02/1998]](/images/28000/28212.jpg "Perth")
![156 435 stands at Platform 3 with a southbound service on a wet evening in February 1998<br><br>[David Panton /02/1998]](/images/28000/28229.jpg "Stirling")
![158 705 in Scotrail Express livery stands at Perth platform 4 in February 1998 with an Edinburgh to Inverness service. [See image 28501]<br><br>[David Panton /02/1998]](/images/28000/28439.jpg "Perth")
![158 705 at Perth Platform 4 with an Inverness to Edinburgh service in February 1998. I now notice that I photographed the same unit on its way north [see image 28439] on what must have been the same day. Could I really have been in Perth all that time (Fair City though it is)? What was I doing? We'll never know.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton /02/1998]](/images/28000/28501.jpg "Perth")
![In February 1998, as the light starts to fade, a class 158 calls at the little-used Platform 3 at Perth with an Inverness to Edinburgh service. <br><br>[David Panton /02/1998]](/images/51000/51818.jpg "Perth")
![117301 following arrival at Perth in May 1998 with the evening service from Edinburgh via Dunfermline.<br><br>[David Panton /05/1998]](/images/16000/16540.jpg "Perth")
![Hilton Junction box in May 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /05/1998]](/images/17000/17947.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![The 1727 from Edinburgh via Dunfermline, formed by 117 301, stands at platform 7 at Perth in May 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /05/1998]](/images/19000/19245.jpg "Perth")
![Footbridge leading to the southbound platform at Gleneagles in June 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /06/1998]](/images/17000/17793.jpg "Gleneagles")
![156 439 with an early evening Glasgow - Perth service at Gleneagles in June 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /06/1998]](/images/17000/17800.jpg "Gleneagles")
![View south over Bridge of Allan station towards Stirling in June 1998, as ScotRail unit 158 724 arrives with a Dunblane service. <br><br>[David Panton /06/1998]](/images/22000/22226.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![47 773 <I>Reservist</I> at Perth platform 1 in Jul 1998<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/28000/28100.jpg "Perth")
![A GNER 125 pulls out of Perth's platform 4 with the Down <I>Highland Chieftain</I> in July 1998<br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/28000/28870.jpg "Perth")
![SB and level crossing at Blackford in August 1998.<br><br>[David Panton /08/1998]](/images/16000/16893.jpg "Blackford")
![47 584 standing in platform 5 at Perth station in 1999.<br><br>[David Panton //1999]](/images/19000/19069.jpg "Perth")
![One of the the two daily <I>Enterprise</I> services from Aberdeen to Mossend creeps south through Platform 1 at Perth in 1999 behind EWS 37427.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1999]](/images/27000/27011.jpg "Perth")
![Electro-mechanical repeater at Perth Platform 2 in February 1999. As far as I know it's still there, as is the pleasingly dated colour scheme of the ironwork which waves of corporate colour schemes have passed completely by. Also to be seen are the red and yellow symbols of the old Travellers' Fare, a brand which didn't even make it to the end of BR.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 01/02/1999]](/images/51000/51782.jpg "Perth")
![47584 is stabled at a temporarily shortened Platform 5 at Perth in February 1999. It's in a 'creative' livery. Nowadays there is no opportunity for lingering at Platform 5 as it's used for the hourly Edinburgh shuttle and the turnaround is tight, thanks to the long single track section between Hilton and Ladybank.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 01/02/1999]](/images/51000/51853.jpg "Perth")
![The signal box at Stirling North, photographed in June 1999 from a passing train.<br><br>[David Panton /06/1999]](/images/21000/21778.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Many of the good people of Dunblane are about to receive an unwelcome early morning alarm call at 6 a.m. on this fine day in June 1999. EWS 56 051 is preparing to restart a heavy freight after a signal check in Dunblane station - to be followed by a very noisy grind north up the gradient.<br><br>[Mark Dufton /06/1999]](/images/34000/34593.jpg "Dunblane")
![The up <I>Highland Chieftain</I> pulls away from Perth in July 1999.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1999]](/images/23000/23039.jpg "Perth")
![The exceptionally tall signal box at Plean Junction, photographed looking southwest from an overbridge in September 1999.<br><br>[David Panton /09/1999]](/images/19000/19254.jpg "Plean Junction")
![Abronhill tunnel, a mile north of Cumbernauld. This tunnel was removed circa 2000.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2002]](/images/10000/10691.jpg "Cumbernauld")
![58045 and 58025 depart Perth with the return leg of the Worksop Highlander tour on 29th June 2002.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Graeme Blair 29/06/2002]](/images/61000/61192.jpg "Perth")
![Waiting for an Edinburgh train at Stirling on the evening of 8th August 2002, the collection of semaphore signals at the south end of the station is perfectly illuminated by the lowering sun.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 08/08/2002]](/images/43000/43354.jpg "Stirling")
![Incongruous sign at Stirling Riverside exit in September 2002. Presumably a leftover from Stirling's days as a Motorail terminal.<br><br>[David Panton /09/2002]](/images/23000/23052.jpg "Stirling")
![All sidings have been removed and roads are appearing, must be housing? Maybe more passengers. By the way I am standing on a new footbridge.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2003]](/images/10000/10961.jpg "Stirling")
![Perth bound 158729 leaving Stirling <br><br>[Brian Forbes //2003]](/images/11000/11026.jpg "Stirling")
![New turbostar on an Aberdeen to Glasgow express.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2003]](/images/12000/12265.jpg "Stirling")
![A truck laden with Highland Spring water (from the plant in the background) prepares to cross the main line at Blackford signal box in 2003. If Highland Spring's current proposals come to fruition, then in a few years' time there will be a new private siding connection east of the signal box, with daily container trains carrying the product south to an English Midlands railhead.<br><br>[David Reid (Courtesy David Spaven) //2003]](/images/26000/26786.jpg "Blackford")
![Looking north at the original Perth station, beyond the building to the right is the new portion from its massive enlargement.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 13/07/2003]](/images/9000/9018.jpg "Perth")
![Inverness bound train approaches Perth from the south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 13/07/2003]](/images/9000/9019.jpg "Perth")
![Its not unusual to see stations converted into carparks, on this occasion even when the station is still open. Cars sit in the cut-back northbound bay platforms.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 13/07/2003]](/images/9000/9020.jpg "Perth")
![Southbound 125 in Perths Dundee platforms. Note the out of use centre track partly lifted.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 13/07/2003]](/images/9000/9021.jpg "Perth")
![Perth inside the station extension in July 2003. This area was once the station forecourt and the station proper was beyond the building. The platform seen here is now the main Inverness platform.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 13/07/2003]](/images/9000/9022.jpg "Perth")
![Perth carriage sidings looking a bit down at the mouth. A casualty of the change from locomotive haulage to DMUs. Note: now returned to use.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 13/07/2003]](/images/9000/9024.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![Ah! Feast your eyes on that glass ... the old trainshed of the original Perth station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 13/07/2003]](/images/9000/9025.jpg "Perth")
![One time door to the SCR offices and now to the out of use carriage sidings. The line in the foreground now has a trainwasher. Prior to that it was used to store redundant wagons.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 13/07/2003]](/images/9000/9026.jpg "Perth")
![A very obscure location. The Dundee platforms are to the left and Inverness to the right. This is the enclosed space between the platforms looking to the junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 13/07/2003]](/images/9000/9027.jpg "Perth")
![From 1988 every second Glasgow-Dunblane turned short in Platform 6 Stirling. These trains will be used to service the Alloa Branch. The platform filling on P9/10 covers the space which was occupied by the NBR office.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2003]](/images/10000/10776.jpg "Stirling")
![EWS 67017 passes Blackford distant signal with a southbound parcels train in 2004.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //2004]](/images/62000/62294.jpg "Blackford")
![An Edinburgh Waverley - Glasgow Queen Street DMU just west of Greenhill lower Junction in June 2004.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2004]](/images/4000/4455.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![Looking east towards Greenhill Lower Junction in June 2004. A DMU heading for Glasgow Queen Street is about to run through the site of Greenhill (Lower) station (closed April 1966). [See image 6666]<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2004]](/images/4000/4456.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![A westbound DMU in SPT livery passing Greenhill Lower Junction in June 2004.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2004]](/images/41000/41179.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![With rain clouds beginning to form over the Ochil Hills, a morning Dunblane - Edinburgh service runs through Larbert Junction on 15 June 2004. The train is signalled for Carmuirs East and Falkirk Grahamston.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2004]](/images/42000/42372.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![View east towards Carmuirs West box, seen here in June 2004 following a spruce-up.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2004]](/images/46000/46761.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![EWS 66107 about to pass Carmuirs West box with a Hunterston - Longannet coal train in June 2004. The train is on the steep climb north after passing below the Forth and Clyde Canal and will bear right here taking the route via Winchburgh Junction and the Forth Bridge to reach the sidings at Halbeath [see image 46559].<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2004]](/images/59000/59537.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![Looking north at Gleneagles in September 2004. The main line through platforms are to the right with the disused Crieff branch platform on the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/09/2004]](/images/1000/1621.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The former Crieff branch platform and disused section of footbridge at Gleneagles in September 2004. View north with the operational platforms and footbridge off to the right [see image 1621].<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/09/2004]](/images/2000/2187.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Looking south through Gleneagles station in September 2004.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/09/2004]](/images/3000/3349.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Perth, complete with new fence, viewed from the south on St Leonards bridge.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2005]](/images/5000/5906.jpg "Perth")
![Panorama of Stirling station from the north in January 2005. On the left a terminated DMU service from Glasgow Queen Street is at platform 10 awaiting its return departure time. For the view from the same spot 28 years earlier [see image 4834]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/2005]](/images/3000/3819.jpg "Stirling")
![A northbound service arriving at Stirling in January 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/2005]](/images/4000/4806.jpg "Stirling")
![A strangely deserted forecourt at Stirling station on 12 January 2005. Probably as a result of most people having sought shelter from the heavy rain. Huh.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/2005]](/images/4000/4831.jpg "Stirling")
![SPT-liveried 170474 arrives at Stirling's platform 2 on a grey and overcast January afternoon in 2005 with a Glasgow Queen Street - Dunblane service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/2005]](/images/44000/44463.jpg "Stirling")
![View east across the platforms at Stirling in January 2005 with a DMU recently arrived from Queen Street awaiting its departure time for the journey back to Glasgow. It would be more than three years before the reopening of the line to Alloa.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/2005]](/images/45000/45201.jpg "Stirling")
![Up postal running south through Stirling station on a wet and gloomy (note the platform lights are on) January day in 2005 behind an unidentified EWS class 67 locomotive.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/2005]](/images/50000/50957.jpg "Stirling")
![Grangemouth - Aberdeen WHM containers passing Stirling North box in January 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/01/2005]](/images/6000/6018.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Stirling North signal box seen looking north west from Shore Road overbridge in January 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/01/2005]](/images/41000/41869.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![A train for Dunblane about to pass Stirling North box in January 2005, shortly after restarting from Stirling station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/01/2005]](/images/45000/45413.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![A recently arrived First ScotRail service from Glasgow Queen Street stands in the rain at Stirling's bay platform 10 on a wet Wednesday in January 2005 awaiting its departure time with the return service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/01/2005]](/images/54000/54495.jpg "Stirling")
![Long lens view of Stirling Middle box looking south from the platform in January 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/01/2005]](/images/4000/4832.jpg "Stirling")
![A Newcraighall - Dunblane train about to leave Stirling on 29 January 2005. Stirling North signal box stands on the other side of the overbridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/01/2005]](/images/6000/6073.jpg "Stirling")
![Rainy day at Stirling in January 2005. The Ochil Hills can just be seen through the mist.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/01/2005]](/images/6000/6273.jpg "Stirling")
![158728 about to enter Stirling station from the south on 29 January 2005 with an early afternoon Edinburgh - Dunblane service. The train is passing Stirling Middle signal box and some of its associated semaphores [see image 24505].<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/01/2005]](/images/50000/50114.jpg "Stirling")
![A southbound train taking the Glasgow line at Hilton Junction in February 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/02/2005]](/images/3000/3761.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![The signal box at Hilton Junction in February 2005. Ladybank to the left, Gleneagles to the right. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/02/2005]](/images/4000/4329.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Shortly after leaving Perth southbound in February 2005, an afternoon train destined for Edinburgh Waverley takes the Central Fife route at Hilton Junction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/02/2005]](/images/35000/35585.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Leaving Larbert Station northbound during a rainstorm in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2005]](/images/4000/4068.jpg "Larbert")
![Platform scene at Larbert Station looking south in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2005]](/images/4000/4070.jpg "Larbert")
![Larbert - south end - May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel /05/2005]](/images/4000/4078.jpg "Larbert")
![Northbound arrival at Larbert in May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/2005]](/images/4000/4067.jpg "Larbert")
![Plaque at Larbert station commemorating those who left on the troop train for Liverpool docks bound for Gallipoli in the early hours of 22nd May 1915 only to perish later that morning at Quintinshill. [See image 4099] <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/2005]](/images/4000/4071.jpg "Larbert")
![Entrance to Larbert station looking north across Main Street in 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/2005]](/images/4000/4079.jpg "Larbert")
![Rainy day at Larbert, northbound arrival - May 2005<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/2005]](/images/7000/7966.jpg "Larbert")
![Larbert North signal box in May 2005<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/2005]](/images/7000/7967.jpg "Larbert")
![An early afternoon Edinburgh Waverley - Dunblane ScotRail service heads north away from Larbert in May 2005 during a period of exceptionally heavy rain.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/2005]](/images/46000/46872.jpg "Larbert")
![A southbound service about to arrive at Larbert during heavy rain on 25 May 2005 passes Larbert North signal box.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/2005]](/images/47000/47452.jpg "Larbert")
![North and southbound ScotRail services meet at Larbert station in the pouring rain on 25 May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/2005]](/images/47000/47778.jpg "Larbert")
![<i>'This is a stick-up!'</i> Blackford level crossing and signal box in June 2005, looking west.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/2005]](/images/4000/4207.jpg "Blackford")
![Lunch arrives at Greenloaning signal box on 21 June 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/2005]](/images/4000/4226.jpg "Greenloaning")
![A northbound train passing Greenloaning loops and signal box in June 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/2005]](/images/4000/4233.jpg "Greenloaning")
![A Perth - Edinburgh Waverley train photographed southbound over Blackford level crossing in June 2005. The large 'Highland Spring' bottling plant stands in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/2005]](/images/9000/9925.jpg "Blackford")
![An Edinburgh - Perth train speeds past the site of Greenloaning station (1848-1956) in the summer of 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/2005]](/images/40000/40243.jpg "Greenloaning")
![Entrance to the former station and yard at Blackford, Perthshire (1848-1956). View north west from the B8081 in June 2005. [Ref query 35737]<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/2005]](/images/52000/52651.jpg "Blackford")
![Remains at Blackford, Perthshire, in the summer of 2005, looking south across the main line. Blackford station closed to passengers in 1956, although there have been calls to reopen it in recent times.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/06/2005]](/images/53000/53929.jpg "Blackford")
![View north along platform 2 at Dunblane station in June 2005. A service to Glasgow Queen Street awaits its scheduled departure time at platform 1, while passengers are disembarking from a recently arrived ex-Newcraighall train at platform 3. The blue footbridge links the platforms with both sides of the station, including the main (west) car park on Springfield Terrace.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/2005]](/images/4000/4210.jpg "Dunblane")
![A train for Edinburgh Waverley waiting at platform 1 of Dunblane Station on 22 June 2005, looking south.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/2005]](/images/4000/4218.jpg "Dunblane")
![East side approach to Dunblane Station in June 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/2005]](/images/4000/4221.jpg "Dunblane")
![A Glasgow Queen Street service about to depart from Dunblane platform 1 in June 2005, as passengers disembark from a train which has just arrived at platform 3 from Newcraighall.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/2005]](/images/9000/9916.jpg "Dunblane")
![An Aberdeen bound train runs non-stop through Dunblane station platform 2 in June 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/2005]](/images/42000/42473.jpg "Dunblane")
![ScotRail 158736 runs south into platform 1 at Dunblane on 22 June 2005, having completed the crossover from platform 3. The train will shortly form the next service south to Newcraighall.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/2005]](/images/48000/48421.jpg "Dunblane")
![158736 runs into platform 3 at Dunblane on 22 June 2005 with a mid-morning arrival from Newcraighall.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/2005]](/images/49000/49426.jpg "Dunblane")
![A service for Glasgow Queen Street awaits its departure time at Dunblane station on 22 June 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/2005]](/images/52000/52196.jpg "Dunblane")
![An empty terminated service from Newcraighall, formed by ScotRail 158736, moves north out of Dunblane's platform 3 on 22 June 2005. The train will use the crossover beyond the signal box to move across to the up line and run back into platform 1 before returning south as the 1126 to Edinburgh Waverley.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/2005]](/images/55000/55389.jpg "Dunblane")
![Approaching Dunblane station from the south in June 2005. View across Stirling Road showing part of the former pedestrian footbridges. Both have since been replaced with a new fully accessible, electrification-ready bridge incorporating lifts, opened in September 2014 [see image 54364]. The elegantly curved covered footbridge, erected by the Caledonian Railway in 1895, is now located at the heritage Caledonian Railway Ltd station at Bridge of Dun.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/2005]](/images/60000/60704.jpg "Dunblane")
![An unusually hot summers day in June 2005 sees an early afternoon Glasgow Queen Street - Dunblane service running north past the tall signal box at Plean, heading for its next stop at Stirling.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/06/2005]](/images/33000/33515.jpg "Plean")
![A Dunblane - Glasgow Queen Street train runs south through Plean in June 2005. <br><br>[John Furnevel 23/06/2005]](/images/33000/33586.jpg "Plean")
![ScotRail 158733 draws to a halt at Bridge of Allan platform 1 on a fine summer afternoon in June 2005 with a Dunblane - Edinburgh service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/06/2005]](/images/55000/55553.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![<I>Anyone for tennis?</I> If so, this is your stop. A Dunblane - Edinburgh train calls at Bridge of Allan in June 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/06/2005]](/images/57000/57453.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![A northbound service passes Greenloaning signalbox at speed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /10/2005]](/images/5000/5899.jpg "Greenloaning")
![Looking across the running lines and loops to Greenloaning signal box in October 2005, viewed from the northwest.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 30/10/2005]](/images/18000/18124.jpg "Greenloaning")
![General view to North<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2006]](/images/12000/12064.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A southbound train passes Hilton Junction in February 2005 heading for Glasgow Queen Street.<br><br>[John Furnevel /02/2006]](/images/12000/12819.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![DRS 66409 speeds north through a wet Dunblane station on 16 February 2006 with a Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/02/2006]](/images/33000/33151.jpg "Dunblane")
![The signal box at Stirling North, photographed in February 2006 looking west across the running lines.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/02/2006]](/images/45000/45363.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![EWS 66088 nears Gleneagles with a northbound cement train on 9 March 2006.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 09/03/2006]](/images/33000/33165.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Southbound train approaching Larbert Junction in April 2006 signalled for Carmuirs East and the Edinburgh line.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/8000/8850.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Looking south over Larbert Junction in April 2006. The Edinburgh line turns off to the left towards Carmuirs East Junction, while the Glasgow line continues down the bank past Carmuirs West box (in the distance) before passing below the Forth and Clyde Canal. The Falkirk Wheel dominates the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/8000/8851.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![An SPT liveried DMU about to run past Carmuirs West Junction signal box southbound in April 2006 on its way to Glasgow Queen Street.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/8000/8857.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![A northbound train on the southern approach section of Larbert Viaduct in April 2006 with the River Carron behind the bank to the left and Larbert station beyond.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/8000/8879.jpg "Larbert Viaduct")
![A Dunblane - Glasgow Queen Street service crosses the River Carron just south of Larbert station in April 2006. <br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/24000/24701.jpg "Larbert Viaduct")
![Part of the 15-arch Larbert Viaduct over the River Carron to the south of Larbert station. View east on 26 April 2006 with a northbound service crossing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/32000/32134.jpg "Larbert Viaduct")
![Having almost completed the climb up from the tunnel under the Forth and Clyde Canal, a train from Glasgow Queen Street for Dunblane is about to pass Larbert Junction signal box in April 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/33000/33413.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Shortly after leaving Larbert station in April 2006 a southbound train is signalled for the Carmuirs West and Glasgow route as it approaches Larbert Junction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/49000/49859.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A northbound service from Glasgow Queen Street passing Larbert Junction on the approach to Larbert station in April 2006. The line south is signalled for Carmuirs West Junction and the Glasgow route.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/50000/50195.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![An SPT liveried DMU southbound from Larbert Junction with a train for Glasgow Queen Street on 26 April 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/58000/58388.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Platform 3 hosts the Royal Scotsman.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2006]](/images/12000/12356.jpg "Perth")
![Unlucky for the <I>bashers</I> (Rail enthusiasts) on this trip to the Far North. Rained most of the time. Two 50s in disguise wait at Perth in May 2006.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2006]](/images/15000/15157.jpg "Perth")
![Sign on the River Allan at Ashfield to warn canoes about scaffolding on Barbush Viaduct downstream.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9123.jpg "Kinbuck")
![Barbush Viaduct undergoing repairs. Looking north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9124.jpg "Dunblane")
![6A30 the Mossend-Aberdeen Enterprise consisting of nothing but a locomotive. This crawls slowly north probably due to repairs on the viaducts and track.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9125.jpg "Dunblane")
![4A11 the Grangemouth-Aberdeen freight approaches Bridge of Allan from the south. Stirling Castle is in the background on the left. In the foreground is stuff left from track maintenance.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9126.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![5D03, the empty parcels vans from Aberdeen to Motherwell TMD pass Ashfield.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9131.jpg "Kinbuck")
![Train from Edinburgh passes Larbert Junction box heading north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9132.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![In the distance are Carmuirs West box, the Falkirk wheel, a train from Glasgow heading north and closer Larbert Jnct box. A train for Edinburgh passes the fine sempahore which will be swept away when the box closes.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9133.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A train for Edinburgh passes a train from Glasgow by Larbert Junction box.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9134.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Stump of signal for leaving the Denny Branch - bottom right. Looking north at Larbert Junction by the trackbed of the closed Denny Branch.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9140.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![The last splitting distant in Britain. A Glasgow train southbound approaching Larbert.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/05/2006]](/images/9000/9245.jpg "Larbert")
![Southbound empty parcel vans from Inverness to Mossend. The last splitting distant in Britain is in the background showing the train will take the line to Carmuirs West. Larbert box is also in the distance.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/05/2006]](/images/9000/9248.jpg "Larbert")
![Looking north at Stirling North box. Note the buffers on the former Dunfermline route. The track has been lifted for replacement.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/05/2006]](/images/9000/9250.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![The splitting distant signal approaching Larbert from the north in May 2005. This signal can now be found at Bo'ness [see image 33351].<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/05/2006]](/images/9000/9268.jpg "Larbert")
![Shunting signals at Larbert.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/05/2006]](/images/9000/9269.jpg "Larbert")
![Sprinter awaits departure for the south at perhaps the least most convenient location for passengers. The Motorail terminal and goods yard were to the left and have been swept away in favour of an unused and gated road system.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/05/2006]](/images/9000/9271.jpg "Stirling")
![6 car turbostar leaving Perth bound for Edinburgh.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/05/2006]](/images/10000/10627.jpg "Perth")
![Platform 7 at Perth, a train for Inverness sits alongside the carriage washery. That line was once a through goods loop<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/05/2006]](/images/10000/10628.jpg "Perth")
![The 1140 Edinburgh - Inverness passes the Perth signal centre (on right) and under St.Leonards Bridge<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/05/2006]](/images/10000/10629.jpg "Perth")
![HRT/FM railtours to the Far North & Kyle have a lenghty break at Perth on the journey north. 2x50s.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/05/2006]](/images/10000/10648.jpg "Perth")
![The old carriage shed and sidings at the north end of Perth station seen from platform 3 in June 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2006]](/images/9000/9959.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![Panorama of Perth station in 2006. Left to right are platform 7 (with a siding between it and the west wall), then bays 6 and 5, through platforms 4 and 3 and the Dundee platforms 2 and 1.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2006]](/images/10000/10038.jpg "Perth")
![Crew change for an Inverness - Edinburgh Waverley service recently arrived at Perth in the summer of 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2006]](/images/45000/45387.jpg "Perth")
![A Dundee - Glasgow service leaves Perth's platform 1 in June 2006. <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2006]](/images/45000/45484.jpg "Perth")
![DRS 66408 crosses over to the Dundee line on the southern approach to Perth station in June 2006 with a train of containers from WHM Grangemouth destined for Aberdeen.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2006]](/images/45000/45506.jpg "Perth")
![Top of Auchterarder SB looking south across a field in July 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel /07/2006]](/images/10000/10033.jpg "Auchterarder")
![Road approach to the former station at Forteviot in July 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/07/2006]](/images/1000/1382.jpg "Forteviot")
![An Edinburgh - Inverness train runs east over Blackford level crossing, Perthshire, in July 2006. The 'Highland Spring' water bottling plant stands in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/07/2006]](/images/37000/37863.jpg "Blackford")
![A Glasgow - Dundee train heads north through Blackford in the summer of 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/07/2006]](/images/45000/45545.jpg "Blackford")
![The former station at Forteviot in July 2006, looking west from the level crossing. [Ref query 137]<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/07/2006]](/images/57000/57222.jpg "Forteviot")
![Perth Signalling Centre, summer 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/07/2006]](/images/9000/9928.jpg "Perth")
![Perth station entrance 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/07/2006]](/images/9000/9932.jpg "Perth")
![The feeling of 'times past' that seems to radiate from various corners of Perth station.... such as the magnificent old clock outside the former signal box midway along platform 5, seen here in 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/07/2006]](/images/10000/10039.jpg "Perth")
![Bay platforms 5&6 at Perth, looking north during a quiet period in July 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/07/2006]](/images/10000/10041.jpg "Perth")
![Hole in the wall, Perth 2006, showing the abandoned and overgrown former locomotive stabling area beyond the west wall of Perth station. [See image 1569] <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/07/2006]](/images/10000/10049.jpg "Perth")
![100 mph. Aberdeen to Glasgow 170<br><br>[Brian Forbes /08/2006]](/images/11000/11818.jpg "Forteviot")
![Window cleaners required at Gleneagles. Apply now to George Formby.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /08/2006]](/images/12000/12768.jpg "Gleneagles")
![South view from car park on former Crieff branch platform.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /08/2006]](/images/12000/12963.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The ramp up to the station is on the trackbed for the Crieff branch. Mrs Georgina Forbes eagerly strides for her train.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 12/08/2006]](/images/10000/10707.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The long Strathearn viaduct was going through extensive repairs. The covering was to avoid contamination from the harvest ruining the paintwork. Did you know that trains cannot pass on this bridge at the moment.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/08/2006]](/images/10000/10879.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Plaque showing 1919 as the opening date of the present station. The bay windows were the first class waiting room, later a bookstall.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/11000/11583.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Aberdeen - Glasgow Turbostar, judging from its speed not stopping at Gleneagles.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/11000/11660.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Blackford level crossing, between Dunblane and Perth. The station here is actively under review for re-opening.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/11000/11865.jpg "Blackford")
![Gleneagles is the only station in Scotland where the station name boards are at 90 degrees to the running lines. Perhaps because only very few trains actually stop here.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/12000/12463.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A container train takes the right fork for Grangemouth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/09/2006]](/images/10000/10973.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![Long shot of Larbert Junction box from the footbridge at Camelon. The golf course is Falkirk Tryst. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/09/2006]](/images/11000/11027.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Poor timing ... but here is the new <i>Tesco</i> train running east to Grangemouth.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/09/2006]](/images/11000/11040.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![Larbert Junction alterations going ahead. The new trackwork is laid out in the field to the east of the junction. View looks south east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/09/2006]](/images/11000/11041.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Larbert Junction alterations going ahead. The new trackwork is laid out in the field to the east of the junction. View looks north east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/09/2006]](/images/11000/11042.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![View to north with Perth main line on the left and the Alloa line to right.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 29/09/2006]](/images/11000/11198.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Aberdeen train gets a signal check.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /10/2006]](/images/12000/12694.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Larbert Junction looking south. Note two things; the box is still open with its semaphore signals and note the new track layout.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/10/2006]](/images/11000/11682.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A 125 from Edinburgh runs north through Larbert Junctions new layout.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/10/2006]](/images/11000/11683.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![EWS 67002 brings the 09.27 Aberdeen - Mossend empty parcels vans across the Forth Viaduct at Stirling in November 2006. <br><br>[John Furnevel /11/2006]](/images/12000/12409.jpg "Stirling Forth Viaduct")
![Looking north as trains pass on the Forth viaduct at Stirling, Nov 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel /11/2006]](/images/12000/12424.jpg "Stirling")
![The infamous half barrier Cornton level crossing in Stirling on 12 November 2006, with a Dunblane - Edinburgh service passing through. Hard to believe the number of people who ignore the warnings at such locations.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/2006]](/images/12000/12421.jpg "Cornton")
![Close up scene of flood water threatening Strathearn Viaduct. Network Rail on watch here.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/11/2006]](/images/12000/12395.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Wide view of Strathearn Viaduct with the river in spate and flooding.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/11/2006]](/images/12000/12396.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![View from the south of Strathearn Viaduct under complete refurbishment. Tented village flooded out previous day. Many contractors present!<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/11/2006]](/images/12000/12414.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Aberdeen- Glasgow Turbostar passing Forteviot.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/11/2006]](/images/12000/12428.jpg "Forteviot")
![Top it up, Sir. Storm has raged for 14 hours now. Flood waters near rail level. 1400 14-12-06.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2006]](/images/12000/12684.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Secret of viaduct covering revealed during storm. New masonary walls? Wind gusting at 70mph. Torrential rain! The large building is Strathallan School.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/12/2006]](/images/12000/12687.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Brilliant colours. Earn Viaduct looking south east along the river bed.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 7/12/2006]](/images/12000/12585.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Express class 170 heading north to Aberdeen passing under the A9 trunk road.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2007]](/images/18000/18414.jpg "Blackford")
![Glasgow bound 170431 service passing the cabin and goods loops at Greenloaning.<br><br>[Brian Forbes ../../2007]](/images/17000/17769.jpg "Greenloaning")
![Winter view of Gleneagles looking south from trackbed of the former Crieff branch. Bright low sun.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 06/01/2007]](/images/17000/17644.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Gleneagles, station masters house, looking north.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 06/01/2007]](/images/17000/17648.jpg "Gleneagles")
![158 super sprinters within Perth carriage sidings on 14 January.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/01/2007]](/images/13000/13110.jpg "Perth")
![Gleaming after a clean up, 170s and 158s at Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/01/2007]](/images/13000/13112.jpg "Perth")
![Eight 158s are cleaned and fuelled here during a Sunday. This one sits in Platform 3 waiting its turn.158709<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/01/2007]](/images/13000/13127.jpg "Perth")
![The 1305 service to Glasgow leaves from Platform 1. The hoarding intrigues.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/01/2007]](/images/13000/13128.jpg "Perth")
![Looking north at the bay window of the former Perth Down Centre signal box. The clock is very famous.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/01/2007]](/images/13000/13130.jpg "Perth")
![Take your pick from the liveries of these 170 turbostars.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/01/2007]](/images/13000/13235.jpg "Perth")
![Leaking canopy on Perth Down Side. This has been like this for many months.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/01/2007]](/images/13000/13255.jpg "Perth")
![The bay window of Perth station's down centre signal box, and the famous clock are ignored by an intending passenger anxiously looking at the timetable in January 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/01/2007]](/images/13000/13266.jpg "Perth")
![Different Scotrail liveries seen at Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/01/2007]](/images/13000/13351.jpg "Perth")
![Whitemoss Level Crossing relay cabin looking east.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/02/2007]](/images/13000/13633.jpg "Auchterarder, Whitemoss LC")
![11.42 Queen Street - Aberdeen service heads north at Forteviot on 16 February having just crossed the Water of May viaduct.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/02/2007]](/images/13000/13681.jpg "Forteviot")
![66416 passes the old station house at Forteviot with a Grangemouth - Aberdeen Intermodal working on 16 February. In the foreground is the site of the old SB.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/02/2007]](/images/13000/13682.jpg "Forteviot")
![Whitemoss level crossing looking north on 19 February.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/02/2007]](/images/13000/13642.jpg "Auchterarder, Whitemoss LC")
![The 1612 Glasgow Queen Street - Inverness races through Strathearn towards Perth, with the River Earn for company.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/02/2007]](/images/14000/14162.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Inverness - Walsall parcels (including a wagonload of scrap) passing Greenhill Lower Junction on 6 February behind 67015.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 6/02/2007]](/images/13000/13495.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![66113 with a light load passing Greenhill Lower Junction on 6 February. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 6/02/2007]](/images/13000/13498.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![Stobart Rail 66411 <I>Eddie the Engine</I> approaching Greenhill Lower Jct on 6 February with the Daventry - Grangemouth <i>Tesco</I> containers.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 6/02/2007]](/images/13000/13507.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![185138 at the rear of a Siemens training/exhibition special at Stirling on 7 February with 67006 on the other end.<br><br>[Veronica Inglis 7/02/2007]](/images/13000/13555.jpg "Stirling")
![67006 at Stirling on the afternoon of 7 February with what appears to have been a Siemens training and/or exhibition train consisting of 2 VKA vans, a well barrier and 185138! <br><br>[Veronica Inglis 7/02/2007]](/images/13000/13556.jpg "Stirling")
![A4 60009 crossing May Water heading south with a single coach.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/03/2007]](/images/18000/18331.jpg "Forteviot")
![A4 class 60009 <I>Union Of South Africa</I> running around a service coach at Perth. The locomotive based at Thornton was heading to Edinburgh to run a special to Leeds. Owing to a load restriction near Dalmeny this was the only route possible.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/03/2007]](/images/18000/18332.jpg "Perth")
![Busy Perth on 14 March with the 1355 to Inverness boarding in platform 4 and 170430 on the right bound for Edinburgh.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/03/2007]](/images/18000/18352.jpg "Perth")
![1612 Glasgow - Inverness train near Hilton Jn with the bow string viaduct over the River Earn on the ENR seen behind.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/03/2007]](/images/14000/14158.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![1713 Perth - Glasgow Queen Street about to cross Strathearn viaduct. Works are reaching conclusion.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/03/2007]](/images/14000/14182.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![170 heads north past Carsebreck Loch south of Blackford. A curlers platform existed here way back.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/03/2007]](/images/14000/14205.jpg "Blackford")
![SWT 158786 draws to a stand at Bridge Of Allan. No destination is shown, but it is travelling south.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/03/2007]](/images/14000/14206.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![Guard checks for passenger safety, before he bells this 170 off up the hill to Dunblane.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/03/2007]](/images/14000/14216.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![The sun catches a Dunblane train as it passes the cleared site of the old station north of the bridge. Note the new platform furniture. This is a definite successful re-opening.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/03/2007]](/images/14000/14232.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![Train for Glasgow Queen Street during its lengthy layover in the bay at Stirling on 30 March 2007. The forthcoming extension to Alloa and back is already factored into the turnaround time on these services. <br><br>[John Furnevel 30/03/2007]](/images/14000/14265.jpg "Stirling")
![An early afternoon Perth - Edinburgh service passes Stirling North signal box on 30 March 2007. On the extreme right of the picture part of the route to Alloa can just be seen curving away to the east. The Alloa line officially reopened some 14 months later in May 2008 [see image 19427].<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/03/2007]](/images/50000/50098.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![<I>The Great Britain</I> special approaches Perth. Loco 60009 <i>Union of South Africa</i> is 70 years old this year 2007 and has covered more miles than other member of the A4 class.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/14000/14460.jpg "Perth")
![West wall of original Perth station? The near portion has windows at a different height.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/14000/14509.jpg "Perth")
![Approaching Blackford from the south, a Turbostar bound for Perth passing a fir forest.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/14000/14663.jpg "Blackford")
![K4 Mogul 61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I> simmers at Perth while the crew gladly handle the PR.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/14000/14904.jpg "Perth")
![60009 with <I>The Great Britain</I> railtour passing Carmuirs West signal box on 10 April 2007 during the Glasgow - Inverness leg of the journey.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14458.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![Preserved A4 Pacific no 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> on the southern approach to Larbert Junction with <I> The Great Britain</I> on 10 April 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14459.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![60009 hauls <I>The Great Britain</I> into platform 7 at Perth on 10 April past a large quota of all ages (approx 500) taking that once in a lifetime shot.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14461.jpg "Perth")
![61994 <i>The Great Marquess</i> awaits <I>The Great Britain</I> special to assist over Druimuachdar Summit.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14462.jpg "Perth")
![170408 stops at Perth with 1206 Edinburgh service.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14466.jpg "Perth")
![1130 Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal takes the Dundee line at Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14467.jpg "Perth")
![The 1138 service from Glasgow takes the Dundee line at St Leonards and passes 66405 with the Aberdeen Intermodal (via the up line) which is waiting for the junction to clear.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14471.jpg "Perth")
![A4 whistle sounds in the distance. 60009 passing Tesco (site of former Perth Caley shed) over a mile away with <I>The Great Britain</I>.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14472.jpg "Perth")
![Famous hole in the wall on the west side of Perth station with a carriage washer on the old running loop.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14483.jpg "Perth")
![The Great Britain</i> approaches Perth hauled by A4 60009. Behind the train an EWS class 66 diesel loco has the road for the loop line on the left. Clearances prevail.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14492.jpg "Perth")
![Study of a K4. 61994 at Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14493.jpg "Perth")
![Heading for the hills! 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> runs north along the west side of the Carmuirs triangle on 10 April 2007 with <I>The Great Britain</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14508.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![Signal check for <I>Great Britain</I> special just south of Perth station, with fireman at phone. John Cameron can be seen in tammy looking from cab window.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14510.jpg "Perth")
![66405 heads the Grangemouth - Aberdeen Intermodal through the junction at St Leonards, Perth. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14523.jpg "Perth")
![Union of South Africa 60009 approaches Perth with the 2007 Great Britain Tour. The passengers can enjoy fresh air looking out of the pull down windows whereas the modern stock does not have this facility.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2007]](/images/17000/17079.jpg "Perth")
![Unique pairing, SWT 158789 and <i>Commonwealth Games</i> 170460 heading north for Inverness passing Gleneagles.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/04/2007]](/images/14000/14540.jpg "Gleneagles")
![<i>The Great Britain</i> special heading home to London runs south through Gleneagles on 14 April behind 57601.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/04/2007]](/images/14000/14547.jpg "Gleneagles")
![47245 at the rear of <i>The Great Britain</i> returning to London Kings Cross passing Gleneagles on 14 April.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/04/2007]](/images/14000/14548.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Ancient furniture at Gleneagles.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/04/2007]](/images/14000/14580.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Diverted Inverness - Edinburgh train races through Gleneagles at 1223 on 15/04/07.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/04/2007]](/images/14000/14581.jpg "Gleneagles")
![66207 heading south with three empty flat wagons.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/04/2007]](/images/18000/18728.jpg "Forteviot")
![Trains passing at Stirling North in April 2007. Buffer stops guard the Alloa lines on the right which would see passenger services commence just over a year later.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/04/2007]](/images/15000/15222.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Twin towers carrying Gleneagles footbridge.. The left bridge has been abandoned for some time.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 29/04/2007]](/images/14000/14779.jpg "Gleneagles")
![View across platforms showing both access stairways.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 29/04/2007]](/images/14000/14780.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Station reception and waiting room at Gleneagles. As can be seen the overbridge door has been filled in. When the Crieff plarform line and sidings were lifted in 1965 this building was sold to a private owner. A car park was laid on the track bed and access gained to the platform by 8 steps.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2007]](/images/15000/15519.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A Perth - Inverness service waits to leave platform 7 on 1 May 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 01/05/2007]](/images/21000/21041.jpg "Perth")
![An Inverness to Edinburgh service calls at Perth Platform 4 on 1 May 2007 This is by some way Scotland's longest singly-numbered platform, being able to accommodate 24 coaches, although the combined platforms 6N & 6S at Aberdeen can handle 25.<br><br>[David Panton 01/05/2007]](/images/21000/21694.jpg "Perth")
![Looking south from Dunblane through Kippencross Tunnel.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/05/2007]](/images/15000/15087.jpg "Dunblane")
![66030 heads north with 6A30 Mossend - Aberdeen pipes approaching Plean signal box.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/05/2007]](/images/15000/15121.jpg "Plean")
![158.725 heads south past Plean.1156 Dunblane for Edinburgh.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/05/2007]](/images/15000/15122.jpg "Plean")
![66201 heads west past Carmuirs West box on 25 May with coal empties.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/05/2007]](/images/15000/15123.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![66030 with the Mossend - Aberdeen (Laurencekirk) pipes having just passed Carmuirs West.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/05/2007]](/images/15000/15124.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![Escape shaft for smoke or diesel fumes connected to Moncrieff Tunnel south of Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/05/2007]](/images/15000/15128.jpg "Moncrieff Tunnel")
![The late running 1200 London Kings Cross approaching Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/05/2007]](/images/15000/15129.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![The 1155 Stirling - Glasgow Queen Street service passing Carmuirs West Junction on 25 May 2007.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/05/2007]](/images/15000/15131.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![FSR 170 races north through Plean bound for Stirling with the 1140 Glasgow express.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/05/2007]](/images/15000/15465.jpg "Plean")
![Trains for Stirling and Glasgow Queen Street pass at Larbert North on 28 May. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/05/2007]](/images/15000/15184.jpg "Larbert")
![Semaphores still operational on the down line at Larbert on 28 May with the 11.33 Edinburgh - Dunblane passing. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/05/2007]](/images/15000/15185.jpg "Larbert")
![Tall ariel for communication between trains and signal centre. The building behind the mast was a PW workshop in BR(ScR) days, now used for industrial storage.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /06/2007]](/images/15000/15656.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![Looking NE at the southern end of Gleaneagles. A running loop and the Crieff platform line were on the left.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 04/06/2007]](/images/15000/15286.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Glasgow - Aberdeen service in CG livery passing Blackford on 1 June.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 1/06/2007]](/images/15000/15243.jpg "Blackford")
![Glasgow - Aberdeen train (CG liveried 170420) on Blackford LC on 1 June.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 1/06/2007]](/images/15000/15261.jpg "Blackford")
![170431 speeds through Greenloaning as the 1513 Perth to Glasgow<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/06/2007]](/images/15000/15475.jpg "Greenloaning")
![Taken into direct sunlight the late running 1540 Glasgow to Aberdeen passes Forteviot LC.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/06/2007]](/images/15000/15549.jpg "Forteviot")
![158702 is one of a trio of 158 sets stabled in platform 3 at Perth station on 25 June.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 25/06/2007]](/images/15000/15616.jpg "Perth")
![FSR 158733 glides down from Greenhill Upper Junction, heading for Stirling. The vegetation surprised me.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/06/2007]](/images/15000/15637.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![FSR 158733 passing through the points at Greenhill Lower Junction.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/06/2007]](/images/15000/15643.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![Despite losing much of the glory it had in steam days with the bay platforms and the through lines long gone, Larbert still retains a somewhat impressive air about it. View looks south .<br><br>[Paul D Kerr 27/06/2007]](/images/15000/15663.jpg "Larbert")
![Bidirectional running capability now exists at south end of Larbert: southbound starter signal on the original northbound platform<br><br>[Paul D Kerr 27/06/2007]](/images/15000/15664.jpg "Larbert")
![The old still hanging on for dear life... Northbound express passing semaphore signal at north end of Larbert station. Anyone know when the signals at the north end are being replaced?<br><br>[Paul D Kerr 27/06/2007]](/images/15000/15667.jpg "Larbert")
![In with the new: single aspect colour light signal South of Larbert Station<br><br>[Paul D Kerr 27/06/2007]](/images/15000/15668.jpg "Larbert")
![170430 passing through Blackford and under the A9 northbound.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/06/2007]](/images/15000/15677.jpg "Blackford")
![The 1614 to Glasgow awaits the buzzer, rigged out in the latest SPT colours. Unit No. 170471<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/06/2007]](/images/15000/15683.jpg "Dunblane")
![158716 in Scotrail livery due to depart with the 1556 for Edinburgh. The semaphore starting signal is off.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/06/2007]](/images/15000/15686.jpg "Dunblane")
![SPT 170 on the main line north of Dunblane awaiting the departure of an Edinburgh service. Then it will come through the crossover under the footbridge to reach Platform 1.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/06/2007]](/images/15000/15697.jpg "Dunblane")
![An Aberdeen express rounds the long curve at Bardrill north east of Blackford as a Relay truck heads south on the A9 with a car and caravan.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/06/2007]](/images/15000/15702.jpg "Blackford")
![Edinburgh departure from Dunblane. <br><br>[Brian Forbes /07/2007]](/images/15000/15861.jpg "Dunblane")
![Passenger looking for a golf ball. 47843 powers a special south through Gleneagles.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /07/2007]](/images/16000/16071.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The 13.56 Dunblane-Edinburgh leaves in a cloudburst.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/07/2007]](/images/15000/15729.jpg "Dunblane")
![Light and dark contradiction at Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 06/07/2007]](/images/13000/13510.jpg "Perth")
![Network Rail Measurement Train passing Forteviot on 13 July, heading for Craigentinny via Shotts.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/07/2007]](/images/15000/15801.jpg "Forteviot")
![Perth Platform 6 with stabled 170496.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/07/2007]](/images/15000/15816.jpg "Perth")
![Perth Carriage sidings (north end) showing 170406, 158706 & 158720.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/07/2007]](/images/15000/15819.jpg "Perth")
!['Alex Findlay and Co' works plate on the middle footbridge at Perth station.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/07/2007]](/images/15000/15826.jpg "Perth")
![1413 Glasgow express goes through the points to <I>line U</I> at Perth Junction. Set 170408.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/07/2007]](/images/15000/15827.jpg "Perth")
![Central Scotlands main servicing depot is at the north end of Perth station. Formerly platforms 8 & 9.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/07/2007]](/images/15000/15841.jpg "Perth")
![A 170 and 4x158s wait for Monday morning to take the road.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/07/2007]](/images/15000/15845.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![Southerly view of the grand old station at Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/07/2007]](/images/15000/15851.jpg "Perth")
![Inverness - Edinburgh train enters Perth platform 4. See the original name board. Longest platform (not having split numbers) in Scotland.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/07/2007]](/images/15000/15859.jpg "Perth")
![The wet summer of 2007 is ignored as a 170 heads north through Gleneagles.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/07/2007]](/images/16000/16145.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Compass Tours from Dalwhinnie returning to Liverpool behind 47843 <I>Vulcan</I> about to pass Gleneagles on 21 July 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/07/2007]](/images/15000/15919.jpg "Gleneagles")
![170426 about to race through Gleneagles bound for Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/07/2007]](/images/16000/16004.jpg "Gleneagles")
![47843 <i>Vulcan</i> at the head of <I>The Mersey Highlander</I> southbound at Gleneagles.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/07/2007]](/images/16000/16011.jpg "Gleneagles")
![47805 (Talisman) at the rear of a special heading south.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/07/2007]](/images/16000/16109.jpg "Gleneagles")
![<I>Could murdera cuppa tea....</I> Southbound arrivals at Stirling North SB on 24 July. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/07/2007]](/images/15000/15986.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![A northbound arrival at Stirling on 24 July 2007 formed by ScotRail 158729.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/07/2007]](/images/15000/15987.jpg "Stirling")
![A southbound service draws to a halt at Stirling on 24 July 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/07/2007]](/images/16000/16219.jpg "Stirling")
![Waiting to return to Glasgow Queen Street from bay platform 10 at Stirling station on 24 July 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/07/2007]](/images/45000/45228.jpg "Stirling")
![An Edinburgh bound train passing Stirling North signal box in July 2007 on the approach to the station. ScotRail 170407 is still carrying its old National Express livery. Over on the right work is in progress on the Alloa line, which would reopen to passengers in May the following year.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/07/2007]](/images/60000/60173.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Blackford freight yard could be used again by the Highland Spring Water company after a meeting between the MP, MSP and Transport Scotland. Dundee Courier 26/07/07<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/07/2007]](/images/16000/16014.jpg "Blackford")
![170406 passing Blackford Level Crossing and signal box.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/07/2007]](/images/16000/16015.jpg "Blackford")
![Unidentified class 170 heads north under the busy A9<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/07/2007]](/images/16000/16016.jpg "Blackford")
![An original Scotrail Liveried clas 170 turbostar passing south.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/07/2007]](/images/16000/16017.jpg "Forteviot")
![Northbound 170 passing the former station house at Forteviot.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/07/2007]](/images/16000/16018.jpg "Forteviot")
![View of Blackford goods yard from road entrance.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/07/2007]](/images/16000/16019.jpg "Blackford")
![The former station at Forteviot in August 2007 seen looking southwest from the level crossing.<br><br>[David Panton 22/08/2007]](/images/17000/17702.jpg "Forteviot")
![Road sign by Forteviot level crossing on 22 August 2007. All 6 locations boasted a railway station at one time... only one remains.<br><br>[David Panton 22/08/2007]](/images/19000/19544.jpg "Forteviot")
![A Glasgow Queen Street 170 service stands at platform 1 at Dunblane on 25 August while a 158 from Edinburgh leaves platform 3 for the reversing siding.<br><br>[David Panton 25/08/2007]](/images/17000/17453.jpg "Dunblane")
![The northern approaches to Larbert seen on 25 August 2007 as 170 475 arrives with a Glasgow train.<br><br>[David Panton 25/08/2007]](/images/18000/18337.jpg "Larbert")
![Empty stock at platform 7 at Stirling on 25 August 2007 with 158 732 showing <I>Bathgate</I> on the destination panel. <br><br>[David Panton 25/08/2007]](/images/19000/19981.jpg "Stirling")
![170 452 on an Edinburgh - Dunblane service at Bridge of Allan on 25 August 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 25/08/2007]](/images/20000/20925.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![170 477 awaits its departure time at Dunblane on 25 August 2007 with a Glasgow Queen Street train.<br><br>[David Panton 25/08/2007]](/images/24000/24944.jpg "Dunblane")
![New look Strathearn Viaduct after refurbishmant. An Aberdeen express crossing.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 31/08/2007]](/images/16000/16406.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Evening shunting trip, passing the arc light of the Signalling Centre.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/16000/16525.jpg "Perth")
![Empty Coaches in the down loop at Perth. Soon they will negotiate the Carriage Washery.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/16000/16549.jpg "Perth")
![Dusk. A quiet twilight view of Perth station.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/16000/16557.jpg "Perth")
![Class 66 top + tailed sandite train passing north through Gleneagles in September 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/16000/16771.jpg "Gleneagles")
![SPTE 170471 coming through the road at Dunblane. The signal box on the right was originally called Dunblane North.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/17000/17010.jpg "Dunblane")
![50049 on the rear of the <I>Autumn Highlander</I> at Perth on 5 Sepember. 2 Locomotives and 11 coaches easily fit into platform 4 at Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/09/2007]](/images/16000/16788.jpg "Perth")
![The new Strathearn Viaduct. It has four arches, vegetation obscuring one.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/09/2007]](/images/16000/16663.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![The <I>Autumn Highlander</I>, Kings Cross to Inverness arriving at Perth. Loco 55022 <I>Royal Scots Grey</I>.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/10/2007]](/images/16000/16777.jpg "Perth")
![The down <I>Highland Chieftain</I> stands at Perth on 5 October 2007. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/10/2007]](/images/16000/16781.jpg "Perth")
![The <I>Autumn Highlander</I> was top & tailed through Perth on 5 October. Rear loco 50049 eases under St Leonards bridge. To the left is the former parcels/mail platform.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/10/2007]](/images/16000/16782.jpg "Perth")
![Deltic 55022 heading the 2007 Autumn Highlander negotiates the points as it reaches Perth platform 4.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 06/10/2007]](/images/16000/16790.jpg "Perth")
![No train! A Deltic with a northbound special is obscured by a City Link coach on Edinburgh Road Bridge, Perth on 6 October. Does the sportsfield on the hillside belong to a High School? So much for preparation. Still the trackwork is interseting.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 06/10/2007]](/images/17000/17266.jpg "Perth")
![170 407 in ScotRail livery heads south near Cowie on 9 October. Stirling Castle stands in the background.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 09/10/2007]](/images/16000/16832.jpg "Cowie")
![Auchterarder Signal Box.<br><br>[John Gray 18/10/2007]](/images/16000/16908.jpg "Auchterarder")
![Looking north from a spot popular with generations of photographers.<br><br>[John Gray 18/10/2007]](/images/16000/16929.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A view north from the bridge.<br><br>[John Gray 18/10/2007]](/images/16000/16930.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The former booking office and parcels office at Gleneagles.Both ends of the bridge have been sealed off and the building is a private house.<br><br>[John Gray 18/10/2007]](/images/17000/17082.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Inscription reads <I>Built in 1919 the year of peace after the great war</I>.<br><br>[John Gray 18/10/2007]](/images/17000/17089.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Deltic 55022 approaching Perth with a special on 6 October 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 6/10/2007]](/images/16000/16836.jpg "Perth")
![View from east. Stabled trains for early morning services starting from Dunblane are in platforms 4 & 5. This adds a bit of colour to a normally drab grey station. The bushes are situated alongside platform 9 which is where the Alloa service arrives en route to Glasgow Queen Street.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/11/2007]](/images/17000/17116.jpg "Stirling")
![WHM Grangemouth - Aberdeen containers approaching Perth on 15 November behind DRS 66405. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 15/11/2007]](/images/17000/17159.jpg "Perth")
![Earn Viaduct with work resumed on 26th November. The 1342 Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen is seen crossing.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/11/2007]](/images/17000/17293.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Train for Dunblane arriving at Stirling in monsoon conditions.158705<br><br>[Brian Forbes /12/2007]](/images/17000/17639.jpg "Stirling")
![1Z59 special heading for Perth and Dundee over the Earn Viaduct top & tailed by 2xEWS class 67 locomotives. Brief break in cloud cover.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 08/12/2007]](/images/17000/17404.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Late running 11.13 Perth to Glasgow passing the village of Forgandenny, approaching the Earn Viaduct and the closed station.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/12/2007]](/images/17000/17449.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Unlucky? A thirteen coach special running to Dundee on 22 December passing the Forgandenny oxbow lake, T&T by EWS class 67s.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/12/2007]](/images/17000/17623.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![New footbridge with supports at the south end of Stirling.<br>
This structure is to enable access between the City Centre and the Forthside housing area now being erected on the site of the former goods yard.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/12/2007]](/images/17000/17584.jpg "Stirling")
![New Starting signal on the main up platform at Stirling installed in May 2007. Stirling Middle signal box is passed by a Dunblane class 158 dmu. The new bridge support on the left is for a footbridge accross the station from the city to Forthside housing and liesure development.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/12/2007]](/images/17000/17587.jpg "Stirling")
![Local trains pass in Stirling station. On the left 158705 from Edinburgh to Dunblane while 170422 is on a Dunblane to Glasgow service. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/12/2007]](/images/17000/17596.jpg "Stirling")
![Local service turning back at Dunblane.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 04/01/2008]](/images/17000/17681.jpg "Dunblane")
![Flooding under the new Earn Viaduct. 26th January 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/01/2008]](/images/17000/17833.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![The 1413 Perth - Glasgow class 170 takes the Stirling Line at Hilton Junction south of Perth in February 2008. This view is only available in winter.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/02/2008]](/images/18000/18054.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Not Again! So often the predicament of the Earn Viaduct. The river has overflowed under the bridge supports and the new silver spans - 29 February 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 29/02/2008]](/images/18000/18160.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Where do we go? Signs at Perth.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 03/03/2008]](/images/18000/18537.jpg "Perth")
![View south at Stirling on 13 March showing the new pedestrian bridge under construction across the station. On the left stands a First ScotRail Glasgow - Stirling service, soon to be extended to Alloa. <br><br>[Veronica Inglis 13/03/2008]](/images/19000/19048.jpg "Stirling")
![170 422 newly repainted in First ScotRail livery stands at Perth with an Aberdeen service on 15 March as the crews change over. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/03/2008]](/images/18000/18330.jpg "Perth")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> arriving at Perth tender first on the outward journey from Thornton to Edinburgh with one coach. John Cameron, the owner and driver, is cricking his neck as he looks out. Thanks for the wave John, I appreciate it, but maybe you should fit a wing mirror!<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/03/2008]](/images/18000/18367.jpg "Perth")
![View of 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> running through Platform 4 at Perth on 14th March 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/03/2008]](/images/18000/18378.jpg "Perth")
![<I>All together now, ...ah-one... ah-two... </I> JCB synchronisation consultant in action during major renewal work at Larbert on 22 March 2008.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/03/2008]](/images/18000/18421.jpg "Larbert")
![60062 and 66040 on track renewal duty at Larbert on 22 March 2008.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/03/2008]](/images/18000/18425.jpg "Larbert")
![North portal of Moncrieff Tunnel. The remains of turn out from Perth South Yard can be seen on the lower left.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 29/03/2008]](/images/18000/18530.jpg "Moncrieff Tunnel")
![A4 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> shunting at Perth in April 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2008]](/images/20000/20543.jpg "Perth")
![Arrival at Perth, 60009 heads into platform 7 where 45407, at the rear, will run round and pilot the train north to Inverness.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/04/2008]](/images/18000/18634.jpg "Perth")
![Black Five 45407 at the rear of the North Briton finalising the second leg of day 2 from Dundee to Perth. This was a unique sight - a top and tailed 13 coach passenger train with both locomotives running tender first. They ran over the former D&PR on to the down main line at Perth then drew forward into platform 7 where this picture was taken (see 18634). Alongside are stables class 170 DMU sets in platforms 6&5.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/04/2008]](/images/18000/18693.jpg "Perth")
![Running 65 minutes late, train 1Z23 <I>The North Briton</I> passing Forteviot on 15 April with locomotive 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> in fine fettle.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/04/2008]](/images/18000/18668.jpg "Forteviot")
![Black smoke from 60009 as it passes Forteviot on 15th April. I saw some photographers standing on this bridge...!<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/04/2008]](/images/18000/18678.jpg "Forteviot")
![Looking north from Stirling Castle towards Bridge of Allan on 15 April 2008 with a container train about to pass through the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2008]](/images/18000/18989.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![Looking over the rooftops of Stirling on 15 April 2008, with a ScotRail 158 approaching the station from the south. The 2-car train is just passing Stirling Middle signal box.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2008]](/images/55000/55054.jpg "Stirling")
![A terminated service from Glasgow Queen Street runs into the down siding at Cumbernauld. Beyond the train there are two verticle lights which indicate buffer stops. The siding was a running loop until 1985.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2008]](/images/19000/19206.jpg "Cumbernauld")
![66134 stands at Stirling on 5 May below ongoing work on the new pedestrian bridge that will span the station. <br>
<br><br>[Veronica Inglis 05/05/2008]](/images/6000/6807.jpg "Stirling")
![The new footbridge over Stirling station taking shape on 5 May 2008. View south with 66134 standing below. <br><br>[Veronica Inglis 05/05/2008]](/images/18000/18938.jpg "Stirling")
![Pullman Special running between Poole & Aviemore hauled by 37401 & 37412 at Forteviot level crossing. That is a long way to pull a Pullman, man.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/05/2008]](/images/18000/18981.jpg "Forteviot")
![A 5 car 170/158 combination heads north past Forteviot on 9 May 2008 with a Glasgow - Inverness service.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/05/2008]](/images/19000/19449.jpg "Forteviot")
![You turn your head for five minutes and Network Rail build a Training Centre....the new £4m development which will provide training for NR maintenance and engineering staff is due to be opened officially in June.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/05/2008]](/images/19000/19026.jpg "Larbert")
![Shorn. Larbert Junction without sempahores. The box is closed but survives as it is given over to the Training Centre. Coloured lights prevail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/05/2008]](/images/19000/19027.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Depot at Plean Junction on the west side of the line to the north of the overbridge. Plean Junction box is to be phased out.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/05/2008]](/images/19000/19112.jpg "Plean Junction")
![61994 arrives at Stirling with a special from Alloa.<br><br>[John Robin 15/05/2008]](/images/19000/19081.jpg "Stirling")
![View from footplate of 61994 after arrival from Alloa showing Stirling semaphores. Access by kind permission of John Cameron.<br><br>[John Robin 15/05/2008]](/images/19000/19083.jpg "Stirling")
![55022 <i>Royal Scots Grey</i> with 61994 <i>The Great Marquess</i> at Stirling met by many well-wishers on 15/05/2008 the day the first passenger train ran on the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine line after re-opening. This was the 14.20 back to Alloa.<br><br>[Mark Poustie 15/05/2008]](/images/19000/19108.jpg "Stirling")
![Delayed southbound trains stand at Stirling on 23 May following signalling problems at Larbert. On the left is an Alloa - Glasgow Queen Street service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/05/2008]](/images/19000/19149.jpg "Stirling")
![Train for Glasgow Queen Street leaving Stirling on 23 May with Stirling Middle box and a fine selection of semaphore signals completing the picture.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/05/2008]](/images/19000/19155.jpg "Stirling")
![Alphaline liveried, but carrying First ScotRail branding. 158867 photographed passing Carmuirs West Junction signal box on 29 May 2008.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/05/2008]](/images/19000/19230.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![60031 comes off the Alloa line and runs light through Platform 9 at Stirling, presumably on a crew training run. The loco had followed the 1541 Alloa to Glasgow service along the new line. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008]](/images/19000/19274.jpg "Stirling")
![A Newcraighalll - Dunbane service shortly after leaving Stirling on 12 June passes Stirling North box.<br><br>[John Furnevel /06/2008]](/images/20000/20042.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![170457 leaves for Glasgow after calling at Perth. The 1962 power signal box and Network Rail HQ are to the right.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/06/2008]](/images/19000/19333.jpg "Perth")
![ScotRail 170408 passes Stirling North signal box on 12 June 2008 on a Dunblane - Edinburgh service. In the background a Glasgow Queen Street - Alloa train is turning east towards Causewayhead.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/06/2008]](/images/19000/19427.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![A train for Glasgow Queen Street leaving Stirling on 12 June and passing under work in progress on the new footbridge spanning the south end of the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/06/2008]](/images/19000/19475.jpg "Stirling")
![An Alloa - Glasgow Queen Street train (left) and another on the Dunblane - Edinburgh Waverley route stand at Stirling station on 12 June 2008. Part of the new footbridge can be seen crossing the station in the background. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/06/2008]](/images/19000/19779.jpg "Stirling")
![<I>'The train at platform 6 is for Alloa only...'</I> An afternoon service from Glasgow Queen Street pulls into Stirling on 12 June 2008 where passengers prepare to board for the last leg to Alloa. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/06/2008]](/images/19000/19794.jpg "Stirling")
![Scene to the north of Stirling station on the afternoon of 12 June 2008. In the background a train from Glasgow Queen Street turns north east on the last leg of its journey to Alloa, while in the foreground a Dunblane - Edinburgh train is slowing for the Stirling stop.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/06/2008]](/images/56000/56327.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Looking west towards Stirling from the works site alongside Waterside level crossing, Causewayhead, on 12 June 2008. The 1218 Glasgow Queen Street - Alloa DMU can just be seen running north east below the castle shortly after leaving Stirling station. Less than two minutes later the train would pass behind the photographer as it turned east towards its ultimate destination [see image 43817].<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/06/2008]](/images/56000/56554.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Detail showing part of the entrance to the James Miller main station building at Stirling, photographed in June 2008. The category A listed structure dates from 1915.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/06/2008]](/images/57000/57906.jpg "Stirling")
![The evening stopping service calls at Gleneagles on 27th June.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/06/2008]](/images/19000/19613.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The long drive from the A9 dual carriageway to Gleneagles station will have street lighting shortly. Also in the picture is a section of old bullhead crossing.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/06/2008]](/images/19000/19637.jpg "Gleneagles")
![North end of Perth station on 29 June with 170 405 arriving with a service from Inverness.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/06/2008]](/images/19000/19644.jpg "Perth")
![A Dunblane bound train shortly after leaving Larbert on 3 July 2008, passing the new Network Rail training centre, officially opened the previous week.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/07/2008]](/images/19000/19698.jpg "Larbert")
![Edinburgh and Dunblane services pass at Larbert station on 3 July 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/07/2008]](/images/19000/19707.jpg "Larbert")
![The 12.18 Glasgow Queen Street - Alloa service pulls away from the Larbert stop on 3 July 2008. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/07/2008]](/images/20000/20199.jpg "Larbert")
![A southbound 158 arrives at Larbert on a bright and sunny afternoon in July 2008. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/07/2008]](/images/32000/32138.jpg "Larbert")
![A train for Glasgow passing through the old station at Blackford, the station building can be seen in front of the train. On the hill in the backgpound are the ruins of Blackford Auld Kirk.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 04/08/2008]](/images/20000/20124.jpg "Blackford")
![Dunblane bound FSR 158 724 heading north towards Bridge of Allan has just cleared Cornton level crossing. The old signal box was on the left side of the track.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 04/08/2008]](/images/20000/20152.jpg "Cornton")
![<i>Me get a seat</i>. The 1454 FSR service to Inverness loading at platform 7, Perth comprised of 158716 & 170395.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/09/2008]](/images/20000/20828.jpg "Perth")
![The 1230 Grangemouth to Aberdeen container service picks up from Hilton Junction home signal on 22 February following a stop. The double line extension being installed over the Earn Bridge on the Ladybank Line can be seen in the background.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/02/2009]](/images/22000/22635.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![170 478 is halted at Stirling with a Glasgow to Dunblane service while Alphaline-liveried 158 871 pulls out for Edinburgh on 4 March 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 04/03/2009]](/images/22000/22738.jpg "Stirling")
![A class 170 with an Alloa - Glasgow Queen Street service stands at Stirling platform 6 on 4 March 2009. This platform is normally used by these trains in both directions.<br><br>[David Panton 04/03/2009]](/images/22000/22798.jpg "Stirling")
![Two English exiles pass at Larbert North box on 4 March: 158 871 in Alphaline silver livery heads for Dunblane and while ex-SWT 158 786 approaches Larbert station with an Edinburgh service. The semaphore is in odd but pleasing contrast with the swish Network Rail Training School to the left. Last year semaphores gave way to LED MAS to the south at Larbert Junction and at Plean Junction to the north, where the very tall box (image 19254) is now demolished. There are LN (Larbert North) plates on the signals on their former patch.<br><br>[David Panton 04/03/2009]](/images/22000/22860.jpg "Larbert")
![66 167 signalled for the Down Kincardine line at Stirling Middle Junction on 4 March with a coal train for Longannet.<br><br>[David Panton 04/03/2009]](/images/22000/22995.jpg "Stirling")
![170 414 approaches the up distant signal at Blackford on 19 March with an Aberdeen-Glasgow service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/03/2009]](/images/22000/22910.jpg "Blackford")
![67019 heads north through Blackford on 19 March 2009, bound for Laurencekirk.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/03/2009]](/images/22000/22922.jpg "Blackford")
![View west from the level crossing at Blackford on 19 March, with the former station buildings on left.Redundant sidings have been lifted in the goods yard, but the down refuge siding has been renewed.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/03/2009]](/images/22000/22955.jpg "Blackford")
![61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I> with the SRPS <I>Forth Circle Steam Special</I> at Plean on 5 April 2009.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/04/2009]](/images/23000/23143.jpg "Plean")
![K4 61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I> with the SRPS <I>Forth Circle Steam Special</I> making its 1316 departure from Stirling to Linlithgow on 5 April 2009.<br><br>[Neil Scott 05/04/2009]](/images/23000/23234.jpg "Stirling")
![EWS 66124 heading south at Plean on 5 April with empty rail waggons.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/04/2009]](/images/23000/23350.jpg "Plean")
![A six car 158 set on an Aberdeen - Glasgow working, photographed near Plean on 5 April 2009. The first set is in transitional blue livery. <br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/04/2009]](/images/23000/23619.jpg "Plean")
![HST set in full National Express East Coast livery heads north, bound for Inverness, on 9 April 2009. Photographed just south of Gleneagles.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/04/2009]](/images/23000/23200.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The <I>Great Britain II</I> on the noticeably contracting southern approaches to Perth station on 10 April 2009. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 10/04/2009]](/images/23000/23211.jpg "Perth")
![<I>Great Britain II</I> leaves Perth on 10 April heading for Inverness. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 10/04/2009]](/images/23000/23212.jpg "Perth")
![45231 + 45407 roar through Gleneagles at the head of the <I>Great Britain II</I> special bound for Inverness on 10 April 2009. This is the first time for 50+ years that a double headed train hauled by 'Black Fives' has passed Glneagles.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 10/04/2009]](/images/23000/23213.jpg "Gleneagles")
![<I>Great Britain II</I> northbound through Plean on 10 April<br><br>[Hamish Baillie 10/04/2009]](/images/23000/23214.jpg "Plean")
![Train 1Z25, the <I>Great Britain II</I>, heading for Inverness, nears Bridge of Allan in the early afternoon of 10 April 2009, behind Stanier Black 5s 45231 <I>The Sherwood Forester</I> and 45407 <I>The Lancashire Fusilier</I>.<br>
<br><br>[Neil Scott 10/04/2009]](/images/23000/23218.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![47798 <I>Prince William</I> emerging from Moncrieff Tunnel near Perth on 11 April with a Cleethorpes - Perth return excursion special.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/04/2009]](/images/23000/23231.jpg "Moncrieff Tunnel")
![Royal train locomotive 47798 <I>Prince William</I> stands at Perth on 11 April 2009 at the head of an excursion recently arrived from Cleethorpes.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/04/2009]](/images/23000/23237.jpg "Perth")
![View over Stirling station on 5 May 2009 from the newly opened <I>Shooglybrig</I>.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 05/05/2009]](/images/23000/23634.jpg "Stirling")
![Most services from Dunblane originate there, having arrived from <br>
Edinburgh (twice an hour) or Glasgow (hourly). They all arrive at the outside platform, which would be 3 but no number is displayed, run forward to reverse in the stub, then enter Platform 1 to start the return journey south. Platform 2 serves the few northbound services which stop here, although these will increase when the proposed hourly stopping service from Glasgow to Perth is introduced.The station is seen looking south on a wet 5 May as a 158 waits to return to Edinburgh while a 170 has just arrived from Glasgow. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 05/05/2009]](/images/23000/23667.jpg "Dunblane")
![Still a fine sight, despite a dwindling number of working leavers. Stirling Middle Junction signal box, photographed looking south on 5 May 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 05/05/2009]](/images/23000/23746.jpg "Stirling")
![170 476 emerges from the triple bridge at Larbert on 7 May with an Alloa - Glasgow Queen Street service.<br><br>[David Panton 07/05/2009]](/images/23000/23613.jpg "Larbert")
![158 709 calls at Larbert with a Glasgow to Dunblane service on 7 May. In the other direction the Larbert Junction signal is set for the Edinburgh line.<br><br>[David Panton 07/05/2009]](/images/23000/23715.jpg "Larbert")
![A DRS class 66 with <I>Stobart Rail</I> Inverness empty containers passing south through Forteviot on 12 May 2009<br><br>[Brian Forbes 12/05/2009]](/images/23000/23726.jpg "Forteviot")
![Steam to the front (and a Deltic to the rear) as one of the SRPS specials put on to celebrate the opening of the line from Kincardine and Alloa pulls into Stirling on 15th May 2008 behind K4 61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I> .<br><br>[David Spaven 15/05/2009]](/images/27000/27020.jpg "Stirling")
![170434 leads a southbound 6-car formation at Perth on 22 May.<br><br>[Mully Gwynne 22/05/2009]](/images/23000/23969.jpg "Perth")
![A northbound DRS class 66 rounds the curves near Cowie on 28 May 2009 hauling the Grangemouth - Aberdeen containers. Stirling Castle dominates the background - with a definite touch of 'Walt Disney' about it...<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/05/2009]](/images/23000/23910.jpg "Cowie")
![The 1313 Dunblane - Glasgow Queen Street service heads south away from Stirling on 28 May 2009.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/05/2009]](/images/24000/24007.jpg "Stirling")
![The 1613 Perth - Glasgow Queen Street seen shortly after passing Hilton Junction on 5 June. The Earn Bridge on the E&NR is behind the train.<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/06/2009]](/images/24000/24003.jpg "Hilton Junction")
![Looking south along the platforms at Gleneagles in June 2009. Hard to believe it has been unstaffed for 25years or so and has no CCTV. <br><br>[David Panton 16/06/2009]](/images/24000/24150.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Arrival from the south at Perth on 16 June 2009, with 158 719 on the Edinburgh - Perth shuttle pulling into its usual platform 5. <br><br>[David Panton 16/06/2009]](/images/24000/24304.jpg "Perth")
![A 170 and a 158 form a Glasgow to Alloa commuter service at Stirling platform 6 on 16 June. Still busy leaving Stirling, I wonder what it was like leaving Glasgow...<br><br>[David Panton 16/06/2009]](/images/24000/24313.jpg "Stirling")
![The rear of a 4-car 158 as it approaches Platform 2 at Stirling on 16 June with a Dunblane service. the driver has a clear road right through Stirling as far as Dunblane. Point of interest - the signal post shows (from top down) Stirling Middles Down Starter Cleared. Stirling Norths Down Distant cleared and Stirling Middles rather rare Calling On signal. The calling on signal is used when the track ahead (at the station platform) is already occupied by a train and a following train is to be allowed to share the same section of track at the platform (and be prepared to stop before running into it). Another surviving Calling On signal is to be found at Girvan.<br><br>[David Panton 16/06/2009]](/images/24000/24356.jpg "Stirling")
![The Platform 4 sign is presumably there just to tantalise. Perth station on 16 June 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 16/06/2009]](/images/24000/24466.jpg "Perth")
![Semaphores may no longer be exclusive at Stirling, but they still predominate. Note calling-on signal SM44. June 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 16/06/2009]](/images/24000/24505.jpg "Stirling")
![Running slightly late, the 1711 to Glasgow Queen Street departs Gleneagles on 16 June, formed by 170 410.<br><br>[David Panton 16/06/2009]](/images/24000/24520.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The driver of 67 009 watches the conductor-guard complete his check of the train before the Caledonian Sleeper departs Dunblane for Inverness. It is shortly after 5 a.m. on 29th June 2009.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 29/06/2009]](/images/61000/61174.jpg "Dunblane")
![Running ahead of time, presumably because there had been no passengers to set down, the Caledonian Sleeper heads north out of Dunblane shortly after 5 a.m. on July 3rd 2009 behind 67009. Following a transport review in 2011, there were predictions that the service might not be able to continue beyond 2014.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 03/07/2009]](/images/36000/36577.jpg "Dunblane")
![View looking south from St Leonards Bridge. On my every visit there seems to be slightly less track here. The powerbox is built hard by the site of the former NB locomotive shed (now the car park seen to the right).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/07/2009]](/images/24000/24642.jpg "Perth")
![Despite many visits to Perth over the years I've never been so struck by how poor a job the Perth General Station Joint Committee did matching brickwork to the original stonework during the station's massive re-building of 1884-88. Note the obviously red bricks filling in the gaps under the marvellous glazed roof. This side of the building had been outside and was the entrance side. The area in front of the building (platforms 3 and 4) was originally the turning circle for carriages outside the station with the original station beyond the building (platforms 5, 6 and 7 and the old northbound bays).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/07/2009]](/images/25000/25022.jpg "Perth")
![The 1114 Perth - Glasgow scuttles over the crossing at Forteviot on 13 July.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/07/2009]](/images/24000/24555.jpg "Forteviot")
![A 158 Alphaline set with First ScotRail vinyls recently arrived at Perth platform 5 on 21 August 2009. <br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/08/2009]](/images/25000/25134.jpg "Perth")
![66412 arriving at Perth for a crew change with the 1320 Inverness to Grangemouth Tesco Stobart container service. The locomotive is in <I>Malcolm Logistics</I> livery.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/08/2009]](/images/25000/25140.jpg "Perth")
![EWS 67004 waits at Perth with the RHT train on 7 October.<br><br>[Malcolm Gwynne 07/10/2009]](/images/25000/25728.jpg "Perth")
![View south on 16 November from the new pedestrian footbridge spanning Stirling station as 66043 crosses over to the Alloa line with a northbound coal train heading for Longannet Power Station.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/11/2009]](/images/26000/26356.jpg "Stirling")
![170 477 at Stirling on 16 November, having arrived with a service from Alloa.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/11/2009]](/images/26000/26361.jpg "Stirling")
![Signs of times past at Perth station. On the left is the stump of a wooden lamp post, standing alongside the remains of the old water column. The column was burnt off and plugged with part of the lamp post! (The original water column appears in many steam-age pictures taken around the north end of the station.) As for the wooden cabinet - this would originally have contained what? It currently houses a modern water heating thermostat. Photographed in February 2010.<br><br>[Gary Straiton 26/02/2010]](/images/27000/27912.jpg "Perth")
![Nearest the camera is the 1968 Diesel facility at Perth, seen in February 2010. This was built to replace those at Perth MPD and shows the original fuellers bothy alongside. Only having one pump made this inadequate for triple engined modern day DMUs, hence the new facility beyond. However, I still remember fuelling here on the 'disposal' with Class 26, 27, 20 (always needing water!) 37, 47 and the occasional 40. (There always seemed to be a huge brazier flaming away under the fuelling canopy to stop water and men freezing!)<br><br>[Gary Straiton 26/02/2010]](/images/27000/27921.jpg "Perth")
![Perth holding sidings in February 2010. Pre-1968 these were the down carriage sidings and were through sidings. However with the closure of Perth Shed in 1968 buffer stops were put in midway, enabling the north end to become 'holders' nos 1-3. [See image 1569]. The wall separating the wash road and the 'holders' extended past the photographer. This was removed in 1984/5 as this wasn't part of the original station and therefore not listed. At the same time there was some rationalisation of track and signalling with the down passenger loop (between the wash road and platform 7) being removed. The crossovers and signals midway along 7 were also removed. To the right is the solum of the station avoiding lines, a double line that ran from the Edinburgh Road to Crieff Road Bridge. These were removed around 1970. Perth HS gradually fell out of use with the run-down of loco work and are now clamped oou. <br>
<br><br>[Gary Straiton 27/02/2010]](/images/27000/27932.jpg "Perth")
![View east from Perth holding sidings towards the station in February 2010. The metal contraption on the right is an incinerator and may date from the days when these were carriage sidings.<br>
<br><br>[Gary Straiton 27/02/2010]](/images/27000/27949.jpg "Perth")
![Remains of the old telephone equipment on the wall of the former holding sidings alongside Perth station in February 2010. It never worked. The Secondman always ended up being sent to see the gaffer, or fitter, or whoever was required! <br>
<br><br>[Gary Straiton 27/02/2010]](/images/27000/27953.jpg "Perth")
![Looking North along the route of the avoiding lines at Perth in February 2010. Rowntrees siding formerly ran through a gate to the warehouse on the left.<br>
<br><br>[Gary Straiton 27/02/2010]](/images/27000/27978.jpg "Perth")
!['Behind the Wall' at Perth in February 2010, looking north along the old no 2 road. The lamps were suspended from wires across the tracks [see image 19602].<br>
<br><br>[Gary Straiton 27/02/2010]](/images/27000/27995.jpg "Perth")
![A Turbostar from Alloa ready to depart Stirling on 13 March on a service to Glasgow Queen Street.<br><br>[Sally Strachan 13/03/2010]](/images/37000/37867.jpg "Stirling")
![40145 heading north through Gleneagles with the the Pathfinder <i>West Highlander</i> railtour on 2 April 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/04/2010]](/images/28000/28338.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Passing trains at Larbert station on 9 April 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/04/2010]](/images/28000/28446.jpg "Larbert")
![70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> nears Blackford with the 1Z25 <I>Great Britain III</I> Springburn - Aberdeen - Inverness leg on 11 April.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/04/2010]](/images/28000/28462.jpg "Blackford")
![Britannia 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> chimes at Blackford level crossing on 11 April as it heads north with the <I>Great Britain</I> railtour.<br><br>[John Robin 11/04/2010]](/images/28000/28466.jpg "Blackford")
![The <I>Great Britain III</I> heads north at Peterhead Farm just south of Gleneagles on 11 April 2010 with Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> in charge.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/04/2010]](/images/28000/28469.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The <I>Great Britain III</I> railtour heads north from Blackford on 11 April 70013 behind 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I>.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/04/2010]](/images/28000/28470.jpg "Blackford")
![<I>Oliver Cromwell</I> waits at Stirling on 18 April with the afternoon SRPS <I>Forth Circle</I> Railtour before returning to Dalmeny and Inverkeithing via Linlithgow.<br>
<br><br>[Mark Poustie 18/04/2010]](/images/28000/28585.jpg "Stirling")
![Freightliner <i>Powerhaul</i> locomotive no 70005 takes a loaded coal train bound for Longannet past Larbert Junction on 22 April 2010<br><br>[James Young 22/04/2010]](/images/28000/28853.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![170 481 arrives at Stirling on 3 May 2010 with a Dunblane - Glasgow Queen Street service.<br><br>[David Panton 03/05/2010]](/images/28000/28818.jpg "Stirling")
![Stirling North signal box, May 2010. <br><br>[David Panton 03/05/2010]](/images/28000/28834.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![The Friends of Bridge of Allan led by Elizabeth Rankin and Gavin Drummond are seen enjoying the first of their splendid new station seats.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 13/05/2010]](/images/28000/28926.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the re-opening of Bridge of Allan station there was a tree-planting by Beaconhurst School in the presence of Dr Richard Simpson MSP, Rt Hon George Reid, the Friends of Bridge of Allan and Bridge of Allan Primary School.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 13/05/2010]](/images/28000/28927.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the re-opening of Bridge of Allan station there was a plaque-unveiling by James Anderson, former convenor of Central Regional Council, followed by a tree-planting.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 13/05/2010]](/images/28000/28928.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![Glasgow to Dunblane leaving Stirling.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/05/2010]](/images/28000/28937.jpg "Stirling")
![Glasgow to Aberdeen express races north at Innerdunning.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/05/2010]](/images/28000/28941.jpg "Dunning")
![The Inverness portion of the Highland Sleeper stands at Perth at 05.39 on 18 May 2010 behind 67030.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 18/05/2010]](/images/29000/29008.jpg "Perth")
![Bay Platform 5 at Perth is mostly the preserve of the hourly service to Edinburgh and here 158 789 waits to return to the capital on 31 May having arrived, slightly late, only a few minutes earlier. 158 789 transferred to Scotland still in South West Trains livery but after a spell was repainted in ScotRail blue in preparation for full branding.This was over two years ago and it is still going about 'bald'. No 158s have so far been given the 'Scotland's Railway' treatment; 156s, for some reason, are getting priority. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 31/05/2010]](/images/29000/29174.jpg "Perth")
![158 735 pulls out of Perth platform 5 with an Edinburgh semi-fast on 31 May 2010. Next to it Platform 6 does not seem to have regular departures and certainly has no information display.<br><br>[David Panton 31/05/2010]](/images/29000/29207.jpg "Perth")
![After a briefer than usual tunaround time, caused by a late arrival, <br>
the unbranded 158 789 pulls out of bay Platform 5 at Perth on its return through Fife to Edinburgh on 31 May 2010. The 15 mile section between Hilton Junction and Ladybank is single-track throughout. It probably sees more passenger trains than it ever has, but has had no intermediate stations since 1955 when the line closed to passengers until 1975. Could at least Newburgh and Bridge of Earn have enough potential traffic to warrant reopening? <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 31/05/2010]](/images/29000/29258.jpg "Perth")
![170 428 pulls out of Perth platform 4 on 31 May with an Inverness to Glasgow service.<br><br>[David Panton 31/05/2010]](/images/29000/29275.jpg "Perth")
![Summary of departures from Perth on the afternoon of 31 May 2010. <br>
Perth must see more trains now than at any time since before the <br>
Beeching closures. However the central trainshed housing Platforms 3 and 4 remains quiet like an empty cathedral for most of the day when the only figures to be seen are making their way across the footbridge to and from Platforms 5 and 7.<br><br>[David Panton 31/05/2010]](/images/29000/29302.jpg "Perth")
![A new Travel Centre (are they still called that?) opened at Perth in <br>
1970, a period when there was not much rail travel going on and services were sparse, but it was more conveniently placed for access to all platforms. Like its bigger counterpart at King's Cross, of the same period, it has a 'grafted on' look to it, but then the rest of the exterior of Perth station is not much to write home about thanks to a hasty Victorian extension which hid the original exterior, now at Platform 4. The interior of the 1970 graft is seen here on 31 May. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 31/05/2010]](/images/29000/29335.jpg "Perth")
![Platform 3 at Dunblane has acquired a number sign since my visit last year, but it's academic to the travelling public as it has no departures as there's no crossover to the southbound track. It is though in frequent used for any of the three terminating trains an hour needing to clear the main lines. 158 870 has done just that on 15 June 2010, letting a Glasgow to Inverness service call. It is now running to the crossover at the north end where it will reverse and cross to the Up Main platform 1 to return to Edinburgh.<br><br>[David Panton 15/06/2010]](/images/29000/29406.jpg "Dunblane")
![Platform view north at Bridge of Allan on 15 June as 170 459 calls with a Dunblane - Glasgow Queen Street service.<br><br>[David Panton 15/06/2010]](/images/29000/29539.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![170 451 pulls into Dunblane with a Glasgow to Inverness service on 15 June 2010. Note the well-braced up starter signal DB14.<br><br>[David Panton 15/06/2010]](/images/29000/29644.jpg "Dunblane")
![Arrival at Stirling on 16 June 2010. 170 396 runs into platform 6 on a Glasgow Queen Street - Alloa service.<br><br>[David Panton 16/06/2010]](/images/29000/29615.jpg "Stirling")
![While Larbert Junction has been controlled by LED MAS from Larbert North for 3 three years now the vicinity of Larbert North box itself is still semaphore territory. This MAS on the Down Line looks as if it has been felled and is being claimed by nature, but as far as I know it has never been upright. The semaphore it should replace is certainly still in service. The LED repeater before the triple overbridge at Larbert station is in place (and vertical) though covered up.<br><br>[David Panton 17/06/2010]](/images/29000/29449.jpg "Larbert")
![View north at Larbert on 17 June, as 158 722 pulls in with a Dunblane to Edinburgh service.<br><br>[David Panton 17/06/2010]](/images/29000/29720.jpg "Larbert")
![61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I>, photographed at Perth at 2025 on 26 June 2010. The locomotive had brought in the returning <I>SRPS 40th Anniversary Railtour (1970-2010)</I> from Boat of Garten. Class 47 no 47670 took the train on from here to its final destination at Polmont. [See image 29551] <br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/06/2010]](/images/29000/29548.jpg "Perth")
![With the light amost gone, no 47670 has just taken over the <I>SRPS 40th Anniversary Railtour (1970-2010)</I> from no 61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I> at Perth station on 26 June 2010. The class 47 will shortly take the train south on the final leg of the return journey to Polmont. [See image 29548] <br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/06/2010]](/images/29000/29551.jpg "Perth")
![A ballast train heading north through Perth station on 26 June behind locomotive 66114.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/06/2010]](/images/29000/29638.jpg "Perth")
![47760 approaching Perth on 26 June prior to backing on to the returning <I>SRPS 40th Anniversary Railtour (1970-2010)</I>.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 26/06/2010]](/images/29000/29868.jpg "Perth")
![DRS 66417 takes the Dundee line at Perth with the 4A13 Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal service on 27 June.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/06/2010]](/images/29000/29556.jpg "Perth")
![<I>The Highland Chieftain</I> leaves Perth platform 7 and heads north for Inverness on 14 July.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/07/2010]](/images/29000/29854.jpg "Perth")
![DRS 37608+37409 arriving at Perth on 7 August 2010 with the<br>
<I>Northern Belle</I> bound for Inverness.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/08/2010]](/images/30000/30147.jpg "Perth")
![57601 ready to propel <I>The Royal Scotsman</I> out of platform 5 at Perth on 9 September. After reversing past St.Leonards Jn.the train will then take the Dundee line.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/09/2010]](/images/30000/30634.jpg "Perth")
![66112 enters Perth with the Inverness small pipes train on 9 September. Note the repairs underway on platform 4.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/09/2010]](/images/30000/30640.jpg "Perth")
![158 869 stands at Perth Platform 5, about to return to Edinburgh on <br>
20 September. It is one of the Alphaline liveried 158s which ScotRail have had on loan for over 3 years now and which add a bit of variety.They have 400hp engines rather than the standard 350hp and sound subtly different. Also sounding different is their digitised on-board safety announcements which are spoken in a mild estuarial whine, rather than the well-spoken but slightly actressy Glaswegian used in all other digitised ScotRail announcements, onboard and in stations. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 20/09/2010]](/images/30000/30804.jpg "Perth")
![6233 gets the road from the siding at Stirling Middle box on 2 October 2010 to go south to Greenhill Upper in order to turn. The Pacific had arrived with the 1Z69 Stafford - Stirling <I>Royal Scot</I> special.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/10/2010]](/images/30000/30895.jpg "Stirling")
![DRS 66420 passing through Stirling on 2 October with a Grangemouth -<br>
Aberdeen intermodal.<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/10/2010]](/images/30000/30901.jpg "Stirling")
![6233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> hurries through Larbert on 2 October with the 1Z69 Stafford - Stirling <I>Royal Scot</I> special.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/10/2010]](/images/30000/30913.jpg "Larbert")
![Stanier Pacific 6233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> shunts back into the loop at Stirling on 2 October after arriving from Bristol with the 1Z69 Stafford - Stirling <I>Royal Scot</I> special.<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/10/2010]](/images/31000/31086.jpg "Stirling")
![Bristol - Inverness special 1Z67 hauled by 37623 + 37610 stands at Perth on the evening of 8 October. [37610 was named <I>T S (Ted) Cassady 14.5.61 - 6.4.08</I> after the former Head of Engineering at DRS who died, age 48, following a short illness.] [See image 31026] <br><br>[Brian Forbes 08/10/2010]](/images/31000/31012.jpg "Perth")
![Evening gloom descends at Perth on 8 October as the 1200 East Coast Kings Cross - Inverness 125 calls, running approximately 15 minutes late.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 08/10/2010]](/images/31000/31019.jpg "Perth")
![The return Inverness to Bristol special photographed at Perth on 11 October 2010 behind the twin DRS Class 37s nos 37610+37423 [See image 31012]<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/10/2010]](/images/31000/31026.jpg "Perth")
![<I>Fastline</I> liveried 66434 heading south through Perth station on 11 October 2010 with the return Lairg oil tanks. A DMU stands at the Dundee platform in the background while repair and refurbishment work continues on platform 4.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/10/2010]](/images/31000/31032.jpg "Perth")
![67007 with the RHTT train approaching Perth from the south on 11 October. The train is taking the Dundee line.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/10/2010]](/images/31000/31044.jpg "Perth")
![<I>The Royal Scotsman</I> passing Perth South on 11 October.<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 11/10/2010]](/images/31000/31057.jpg "Perth South")
![158871 stands at Bridge of Allan on 14 October sporting the latest gaelic addition <I>Reile na h-Alba</I>. <br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/10/2010]](/images/31000/31076.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![Perth station changes, November 2010 #1 - see news item. <br><br>[Gavin Matthews 16/11/2010]](/images/5000/5233.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![Perth station changes - November 2010 #2 - see news item.<br><br>[Gavin Matthews 16/11/2010]](/images/5000/5705.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![Perth station changes, November 2010 #3 - see news item.<br><br>[Gavin Matthews 16/11/2010]](/images/9000/9342.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![The abandonment of all passenger services is nigh... A non stop Aberdeen-Glasgow service whips up a cloud of fine powdery snow as it dashes through Dunblane station on a very cold November 29th 2010. The build up of that disturbed snow underbody had nasty consequences for the turbostars and within a couple of days the platform monitors were displaying <I>'All services suspended'</I>.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 29/11/2010]](/images/36000/36550.jpg "Dunblane")
![The northern approach to Perth station, photographed from the Glasgow Road overbridge on 1 December 2010.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 01/12/2010]](/images/31000/31735.jpg "Perth")
![A northbound DMU hurries through Whitemoss Level Crossing, north of Auchterarder, on 1 December scattering snow. On several occasions the klaxons sounded and the barriers came down but no train materialised.<br><br>[John Robin 01/12/2010]](/images/31000/31738.jpg "Auchterarder, Whitemoss LC")
![The severe winter of 2010-2011 cruelly exposed the vulnerability of modern passenger traction to snow, ice and low temperatures, leading to prolonged service disruptions. Some older generation diesel locomotives, such as this Class 37 approaching Dunblane from Perth in sub zero conditions, were better able to cope with exceptional events. It is a great credit to those who designed the Class 37 (probably with the winter of 1947 at the back of their minds) that this photo was not taken in the 1980s, but on 5th December 2010, when 50 year old 37 194 had to be called upon to keep the line operational.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 05/12/2010]](/images/31000/31839.jpg "Dunblane")
![The morning of Monday December 6th 2010 saw all forms of transport in Central Scotland seriously disrupted through a combination of heavy snow and plunging temperatures. This photo was taken at Stirling on that day when conditions were rapidly deteriorating and almost all services were being either cancelled or abandoned. An exception was the 9.51 Alloa to Glasgow Queen Street, shown here battling through to collect passengers prepared to face an uncertain future. What Class 156 DMUs lack in style and comfort, they make up for in ruggedness, weight and endurance, and this unit managed to take on the weather and get through to its destination.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 06/12/2010]](/images/31000/31955.jpg "Stirling")
![Greenhill Lower sees 170454 struggling through the heaviest snowfall in Central Scotland for many years on 6th December 2010. The temp was as I recall about -20.<br>
<br><br>[Douglas McPherson 06/12/2010]](/images/60000/60170.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![170 428 forms the 13.14 service from a wintry Perth to Glasgow Queen Street on 13 December.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 13/12/2010]](/images/31000/31916.jpg "Perth")
![The Earn Viaduct seen rising above the flood waters on 16 January 2011, although no trains were in evidence.<br><br>[John Robin 16/01/2011]](/images/32000/32351.jpg "Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny]")
![Plaque attached to a gate at Stirling station, photographed on 12 February 2011.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 12/02/2011]](/images/32000/32744.jpg "Stirling")
![158725 runs under St Leonard's Street Bridge and into Perth station on 15 March 2011 with a service from Edinburgh.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 15/03/2011]](/images/33000/33215.jpg "Perth")
![EWS 66125 runs slowly through Perth on 22 March with the return Stobart empty container train bound for Mossend.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/03/2011]](/images/33000/33307.jpg "Perth")
![DRS 66413 heads south from Blackford with eight TTA tanks on 28 March. [Subsequently established that the train is the 6D50 Inverness - Mossend (MO) empty tanks, a new service, presumably originating at Lairg.]<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/03/2011]](/images/33000/33383.jpg "Blackford")
![170 419 nears Blackford on 28 March with a Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen service. Stuc a'Chroin and Ben Vorlich dominate the background.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/03/2011]](/images/33000/33388.jpg "Blackford")
![66099 climbs towards Auchterarder on 30 March with the 4D47 Inverness - Mossend Intermodal.<br><br>[John Robin 30/03/2011]](/images/33000/33418.jpg "Auchterarder")
![45407 and 44871 pass Whitemoss LC on 16 April with support coaches bound for Inverness in advance of the <I>Great Britain</I> special. (An unexpected stop then ensued for about five minutes some 400 yards further on.)<br><br>[John Robin 16/04/2011]](/images/33000/33672.jpg "Auchterarder, Whitemoss LC")
![Black Fives 45407 and 44871 speed through Blackford on 16 April with support coaches in tow en route to Inverness in connection with the <I>Great Britain</I> excursion.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/04/2011]](/images/33000/33674.jpg "Blackford")
![<I>The Great Britain IV</I> approaches Whitemoss LC with the Inverness to Glasgow leg of the tour.<br><br>[John Robin 20/04/2011]](/images/33000/33731.jpg "Auchterarder, Whitemoss LC")
![46115 with support coaches passes Craig Rossie on 20 April on the approach to Auchterarder.<br><br>[John Robin 20/04/2011]](/images/33000/33733.jpg "Auchterarder")
![<I>The Great Britain IV</I> racing near Dunning on 20 April behind 45407 + 44871. On this occasion the leading locomotive is carrying the headboard <I>Riley's Whisky Chaser</I>.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/04/2011]](/images/33000/33735.jpg "Dunning")
![46115 <i>Scots Guardsman</i> leaving Perth with support coaches on 20 April 2011.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/04/2011]](/images/33000/33738.jpg "Perth")
![61994 <i>The Great Marquess</i> heading out of Perth and back to Thornton on 20 April 2011 after operations in connection with <I>The Great Britain IV</I> railtour.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/04/2011]](/images/33000/33745.jpg "Perth")
![60007 stands at Stirling with the SRPS <I>Forth Circle</I> railtour on 24 April 2011.<br><br>[Mark Poustie 24/04/2011]](/images/33000/33791.jpg "Stirling")
![60007 stands at Stirling with the SRPS <i>Forth Circle</i> railtour on 24 April 2011.<br><br>[Mark Poustie 24/04/2011]](/images/33000/33811.jpg "Stirling")
![DRS 66418 heads north through Dunblane station on 10 May with the 4A13 Grangemouth - Aberdeen Intermodal freight. The train has just passed 170430 standing at platform 1 about to depart on a sevice to Glasgow Queen Street.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 10/05/2011]](/images/34000/34010.jpg "Dunblane")
![170 473 threads its way towards platform 1 at Dunblane after reversing off the down line on 10 May. To the left is the stub of the Callander line disappearing into the long grass. Made me wonder how many mechanical 'boxes still have point rodding as opposed to motors..... <br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 10/05/2011]](/images/34000/34021.jpg "Dunblane")
![Train 1Z46 rushes through Bridge of Allan on 13 May 2011. The Compass Tours <I>'North Wales Scotsman'</I> was en route from Holyhead to Dundee behind WCRC 47804.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/05/2011]](/images/34000/34063.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![K4 no 61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I> at Stirling on 13 May 2011 prior to joining forces with Black 5 no 45231 <I>The Sherwood Forester</I> standing at the platform on the left. The pair then headed off to Boness with their service coaches in preparation for the SRPS <I>West Highlander</I> railtour to Fort William the following day. [See image 34077]<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/05/2011]](/images/34000/34071.jpg "Stirling")
![45231 <I>Sherwood Forester</I> (rear) and 61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I>, with service coaches in between, leave Stirling for Boness on 13 May 2011. [See image 34081]<br><br>[Brian Forbes 13/05/2011]](/images/34000/34077.jpg "Stirling")
![A Stobart Rail container train, complete with locomotive<br>
66414 <I>'James The Engine'</I>, drifts down towards the level crossing at Forteviot on 28 May.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/05/2011]](/images/34000/34272.jpg "Forteviot")
![Looking north over Perth station on 30 May 2011. WCR 57001 with <I>'The Royal Scotsman'</i> at platform 3 is by-passed by 66414 <I>'James the Engine'</I> running through platform 7 with a Stobart container train.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/05/2011]](/images/34000/34308.jpg "Perth")
![Freightliner 66604 southbound through Stirling station on 10 June 2011 with returning coal empties from Longannet power station heading for Hunterston.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 10/06/2011]](/images/34000/34445.jpg "Stirling")
![View north along platform 3 at Stirling station on 10 June as passengers await the arrival of the 14.21 service to Glasgow Queen Street.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 10/06/2011]](/images/34000/34454.jpg "Stirling")
![Freightliner 66604 rumbles through Stirling on 11 June with coal empties from Longannet power station heading back to Hunterston import terminal for a refill. <br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 11/06/2011]](/images/34000/34466.jpg "Stirling")
![Site of the former Kinbuck station, standing alongside the B8033 north of Dunblane. View towards Perth from the road overbridge in June 2011. Kinbuck station was closed by BR in 1956.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 20/06/2011]](/images/34000/34763.jpg "Kinbuck")
![66414 heading south at Bardrill near Blackford, Perthshire, with the Stobart Empties on 30 June 2011.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 30/06/2011]](/images/34000/34736.jpg "Blackford")
![158732 departs from Stirling on 20 August 2011 with a service for Edinburgh. Stirling Castle overlooks the scene.<br><br>[John McIntyre 20/08/2011]](/images/35000/35331.jpg "Stirling")
![158732 heads south past Stirling Middle SB on 20 August 2011 shortly after leaving the station. In the background no 57601 stands at the north end of the stabled stock for the 'Edinburgh Military Tattoo Statesman' special.<br><br>[John McIntyre 20/08/2011]](/images/35000/35363.jpg "Stirling")
![A southbound service in the hands of 170428 passes Stirling North <br>
signal box on the approach to Stirling station on 20 August 2011. <br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 20/08/2011]](/images/35000/35392.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Having just arrived in Stirling station from the south sidings on 20 August, 47804 stands at platform 10 with the stock of the <I>Edinburgh Military Tattoo Statesman</I> railtour.<br><br>[John McIntyre 20/08/2011]](/images/35000/35409.jpg "Stirling")
![Closure of Perth platform 4 on 27 August 2011 while repair and refurbishment work is carried out.<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/08/2011]](/images/35000/35415.jpg "Perth")
![East Coast 43307 leads the diverted 09.48 Aberdeen - Kings Cross through Blackford, Perthshire, on 23 October 2011. 43208 brought up the rear.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/10/2011]](/images/36000/36134.jpg "Blackford")
![Looking north over Perth station on 27 October 2011, showing the renovation of platforms 4/5 almost complete. Note work is now underway on platform 7.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/10/2011]](/images/36000/36170.jpg "Perth")
![An Edinburgh to Dunblane service approaches the magical mist-shrouded city of Stirling (or possibly Camelot) on 5th November 2011. The planned electrification of the line included building a large EMU stabling depot at this location.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 05/11/2011]](/images/38000/38793.jpg "Polmaise Junction")
![The up <I>Highland Chieftain</I> disappears into sunlit mist at Bridge of Allan on November 6th 2011. At the time, there was some doubt as to whether this long distance service could survive the eventual withdrawal of the HST stock and a 'Save the Chieftan' campaign had already started.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 06/11/2011]](/images/36000/36564.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![Units 170470 and 170471, the two sets delivered ten years ago in SPT livery as compensation for late entry into service of the Class 334s, have now been reliveried in Transport Scotland colours, the first 170s to receive the treatment since 170434 launched the new ScotRail identity in September 2008. 170470 is seen here on 10 November 2011 waiting to leave Dunblane.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 10/11/2011]](/images/36000/36364.jpg "Dunblane")
![170406 is routed into platform 7 at Perth with an Inverness - Edinburgh train on 27 August 2011, with platform 4 closed for repair work [see image 35415].<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/8/2011]](/images/35000/35418.jpg "Perth")
![View south along the down platform at Gleneagles on 12 April.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/04/2012]](/images/38000/38391.jpg "Gleneagles")
![DRS 66430 coasts downhill to the south of Gleneagles on 12 April with the 4D47 Inverness - Mossend intermodal, composed entirely of Tesco containers.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/04/2012]](/images/38000/38397.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Framed by the latticework of Gleneagles station footbridge, 170426 speeds through on 12 April 2012 with the 15.10 Glasgow Queen Street - Inverness.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/04/2012]](/images/38000/38422.jpg "Gleneagles")
!['Great Britain V' runs through Gleneagles on 24 April behind 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I>.<br><br>[Jim Peebles 24/04/2012]](/images/38000/38548.jpg "Gleneagles")
![It was nice to see a steam engine standing in Perth station again. 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> at the head of the southbound 'Great Britain V' on 24 April 2012. [See image 6823 for a similar scene nearly half a century earlier.]<br><br>[John Robin 24/04/2012]](/images/38000/38550.jpg "Perth")
![Rebuilt 'Royal Scot' no 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> pictured south of Gleneagles on 24 April with the 'Great Britain V'.<br><br>[John Gray 24/04/2012]](/images/38000/38696.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A view of Dunblane signal box and its associated infrastructure on 6th May 2012. Special thanks are due to Network Rail and associated contractors for kindly removing the overlooking footbridge for the day to allow me to record this once in a lifetime image [see image 15697].<br><br>[Mark Dufton 06/05/2012]](/images/38000/38771.jpg "Dunblane")
![<I>Welcome to Stirling!</I> View from the main station entrance, 9 May 2012.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/05/2012]](/images/38000/38824.jpg "Stirling")
![A fine array of semaphore signals greets the 13.48 Glasgow Queen Street - Dunblane DMU on 9 May as it approaches the south end of Stirling station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/05/2012]](/images/38000/38854.jpg "Stirling")
![The 14.28 Dunblane - Edinburgh Waverley approaching Stirling on 9 May 2012 past Stirling North signal box. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/05/2012]](/images/38000/38891.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Approaching Stirling from Dunblane on 9 May 2012. The train will form the 14.15 onward service to Edinburgh.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/05/2012]](/images/38000/38946.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![A Dunblane - Edinburgh service leaves Stirling for the south on 9 May 2012. The 158 is about to pass a Colas Rail class 66 standing in the sidings just beyond Stirling Middle signal box.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/05/2012]](/images/39000/39285.jpg "Stirling")
![View north west over Stirling station in May 2012 from the pedestrian footbridge. Trains for Dunblane and Glasgow Queen Street are at the platforms and Stirling Castle overlooks the scene top left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/05/2012]](/images/41000/41730.jpg "Stirling")
![The 14.13 Dunblane - Glasgow Queen Street calls at Stirling on 10 May 2012.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/05/2012]](/images/38000/38790.jpg "Stirling")
![What a difference a day makes - or a half-century. Platform 7 at Stirling on 17 May 2012, with the 15.53 to Queen Street awaiting its departure time. [See image 20536] for the same view in 1962!<br><br>[Colin Miller 17/05/2012]](/images/38000/38889.jpg "Stirling")
![The up <I>'Highland Chieftain'</I> photographed approaching Stirling on 17 May during monsoon conditions.<br><br>[Colin Miller 17/05/2012]](/images/38000/38977.jpg "Stirling")
![A4 Bittern approaching Perth with a railtour.<br><br>[John Robin 19/05/2012]](/images/38000/38937.jpg "Perth")
![Blue LNER A4 no 4462 <I>Bittern</I> brings the 'Cathedrals Explorer' into Perth from the south on 19th May 2012.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/05/2012]](/images/38000/38948.jpg "Perth")
![DRS class 37s nos 37404+37406 arrive at Stirling on 19 May with train 1Z66, a 'Retro Rail' day trip from the West Midlands.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/05/2012]](/images/38000/38954.jpg "Stirling")
![The 4A13 Grangemouth to Aberdeen intermodal service heads north towards Blackford in May 2012.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/05/2012]](/images/39000/39008.jpg "Blackford")
![The new footbridge across the tracks at Stirling provides excellent views of 5043 with 'The Caledonian' during the 2 hour layover at Stirling on the Forth Circular tour of 27 May 2012.<br><br>[Mark Poustie 27/05/2012]](/images/38000/38971.jpg "Stirling")
![GWR 5043 <I>Earl of Mount Edgcumbe</I> simmering at Stirling on 27 May during its 2 hour layover on the 'Forth Circular'.<br><br>[Mark Poustie 27/05/2012]](/images/38000/38994.jpg "Stirling")
![158735 slows to call at Bridge of Allan with a Sunday evening service for Edinburgh. The train is just passing the original station house. Bridge of Allan closed in 1965 but re-opened twenty years later on the opposite side of the road bridge. The modern houses behind were built in the old station yard.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39457.jpg "Bridge of Allan [1st]")
![A six-car Class 170 set approaches Stirling from Perth with a Sunday afternoon service. Above the train the Alloa line can be seen curving away. This view taken from Stirling Castle. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39477.jpg "Stirling")
![Stirling station, as seen from the castle, showing the signal box at the south end, a Class 158 stabled at the north end and the distinctive modern footbridge. In the distance Longannet Power Station can be seen on the banks of the Forth.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/07/2012]](/images/39000/39496.jpg "Stirling")
![The reopened (and resited) station at Bridge of Allan has fairly basic shelters but a plethora of cameras and information screens. 158735 departs with a Sunday evening service for Edinburgh, next stop Stirling. The station was closed from 1965 to 1985 but now enjoys a regular, seven days a week service.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/07/2012]](/images/40000/40099.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![One of tennis player Andy Murray's lesser known achievements (even to him) is the record for the maximum number of fans it is possible to cram into a 158 unit on a wet Sunday morning. Arriving behind time in Dunblane because of the extra patronage for Murray's celebratory walkabout in the town on September 16th 2012, 158 869 takes several minutes to release a multitude into a welcoming downpour.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 16/09/2012]](/images/41000/41683.jpg "Dunblane")
![46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> enters Larbert with the 1Z46 Wolverhampton to Stirling excursion on 6 October.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/10/2012]](/images/40000/40648.jpg "Larbert")
![46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> drifts majestically into platform 6 at Stirling with 'The Caledonian' charter from Wolverhampton on 6 October 2012. The Pacific had taken over the train at Carlisle from class 86 electric locomotive no 86259.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 06/10/2012]](/images/40000/40685.jpg "Stirling")
![Staking out a spot a good hour before scheduled departure time is no guarantee that someone won't spoil the shot at the last minute - I just hope the photographer getting a close-up of Duchess of Sutherland's tender at Stirling on 6 October isn't a Railscot contributor! [See image 40685]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 06/10/2012]](/images/40000/40787.jpg "Stirling")
![46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> leaves Stirling station on 6 October 2012 at the head of 'The Caledonian' railtour returning to Wolverhampton. [See image 40787]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 06/10/2012]](/images/43000/43158.jpg "Stirling")
![A Perth - Edinburgh service waits in Platform 5 at Perth on 13 October 2012.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/10/2012]](/images/40000/40722.jpg "Perth")
![A DBS Class 66 takes the Dundee route at Perth station on 13 October 2012 with a rake of tank wagons.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/10/2012]](/images/41000/41051.jpg "Perth")
![170423 heads south from Perth on 13 October 2012 with a service to Edinburgh from Inverness.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/10/2012]](/images/41000/41600.jpg "Perth")
![A view from Platform 4 at Perth of the carriage sidings in October 2012.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/10/2012]](/images/61000/61356.jpg "Perth")
![Buildings and grounded van body to the west of the station at Perth in October 2012.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/10/2012]](/images/61000/61368.jpg "Perth")
![Statesman's 'Lochs and Glens' railtour to Inverness passing Forteviot on 20 October 2012 powered by WCRC 47826 on the front and with the newly repainted 57601 on the rear.<br><br>[John McIntyre 20/10/2012]](/images/40000/40826.jpg "Forteviot")
![A northbound Glasgow Queen Street to Aberdeen service is about to pass the southbound <I>Highland Chieftan</I> at Ashfield (north of Dunblane) on Sunday 18th November 2012.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 18/11/2012]](/images/42000/42591.jpg "Dunblane")
![20 November saw the first of three trial runs of containers from Highland Spring, Blackford to Coatbridge FLT operated by John G Russell and DRS. 66427 is seen with the containers in the sidings at Blackford.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/11/2012]](/images/41000/41094.jpg "Blackford")
![Containers from the Highland Spring plant (in the background) being loaded at Blackford on 20 November [see image 41094]. Due to the lack of run round facilities here, 66427 will take the train to Perth where it will reverse before heading for Coatbridge FLT.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/11/2012]](/images/41000/41100.jpg "Blackford")
![The 07.55 East Coast Inverness - London Kings Cross HST runs over the level crossing and through the site of Blackford station on 20 November 2012. On the right DRS 66427 is preparing to take a trainload of containers from the Highland Spring bottling plant to Coatbridge FLT.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/11/2012]](/images/41000/41115.jpg "Blackford")
![DRS 66427 leaves Blackford on 20 November with one of three trial runs of containers from the Highland Spring bottling plant to Coatbridge FLT. The train is heading for Perth where it will reverse. [See image 41100]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/11/2012]](/images/41000/41152.jpg "Blackford")
![Four miles west of Grahamston station on 2 January 2013 a westbound train runs through Greenhill Lower Junction in fading light.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/01/2013]](/images/41000/41681.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![The new accessible footbridge at Perth, nearing completion on 25 February 2013.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 25/02/2013]](/images/42000/42182.jpg "Perth")
![Platform view south from Perth station on 25 February showing the new accessible footbridge [see image 42182].<br><br>[John Yellowlees 25/02/2013]](/images/42000/42193.jpg "Perth")
![Freightliner 66548 with empty HTAs heading west from Longannet to Hunterston near Plean on 17 March 2013.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 17/03/2013]](/images/42000/42477.jpg "Plean")
![170396 arriving at Gleneagles with the 15.13 Dundee-Glasgow Queen Street on 26 March 2013.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 26/03/2013]](/images/42000/42501.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The <I>Great Britain VI</I> hauled by Black Fives 44871 and 45407 gets to grips with the 1 in 90 gradient between Whitemoss level crossing and Auchterarder on the afternoon of Saturday 27 April. <br><br>[John Robin 27/04/2013]](/images/42000/42876.jpg "Auchterarder")
![On 3 May 2013 a new Cycle Hub was opened by Transport Minister Keith Brown in the former parcels office at Stirling station. The project is funded by Transport Scotland with ScotRail and managed by Forth Environment Link.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 03/05/2013]](/images/42000/42958.jpg "Stirling")
![A colourful addition to the platforms at Stirling is this barrel-train planter, looked after by volunteers from Stirling Rotary Club.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 10/05/2013]](/images/43000/43047.jpg "Stirling")
![An Alloa Glasgow Queen Street service approaches the location of the former Bannockburn station on May 25th 2013. The Wallace Monument provides the backdrop. The station may yet be resurrected as a Park and Ride facility for Stirling, though probably under the name of <I>Stirling Parkway</I> or similar.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 25/05/2013]](/images/43000/43251.jpg "Bannockburn")
![DRS 66422 on the southern approaches to Perth on 30 June with the 4A13 Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 30/06/2013]](/images/43000/43609.jpg "Perth")
![DRS 37425+37423, with 37409 on the tail, roar through Dunblane on 21 July with a <I>Northern Belle</I> empty stock movement from Aberdeen to Crewe.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/07/2013]](/images/43000/43895.jpg "Dunblane")
![170419 arrives at Dunblane on 21 July with 15.45 Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/07/2013]](/images/43000/43921.jpg "Dunblane")
![DRS 37409 roars through Dunblane on 21 July on the rear of a <I>Northern Belle</I> empty stock movement from Aberdeen to Crewe. At the front of the train are DRS 37425 and 37437.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/07/2013]](/images/44000/44223.jpg "Dunblane")
![107421 and a 158 unit at Dunblane with the 13.45 Glasgow Queen Street - Perth on 21 July. The covered footbridge in the background is to be replaced by an <I>electrification-friendly</I> structure and will be moved to the Caledonian Railway at Bridge of Dun.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/07/2013]](/images/44000/44510.jpg "Dunblane")
![DRS 66303 about to pass Dunblane signalbox on 22 July 2013 with the Inverness - Mossend intermodal service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/07/2013]](/images/43000/43901.jpg "Dunblane")
![170478 calls at Bridge of Allan with a Dunblane service on 22 July 2013. This is believed to be one of only two 170 units still in SPT livery.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/07/2013]](/images/43000/43956.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![ScotRail 158723 forms the 11.00hrs service to Edinburgh, seen heading south shortly after leaving Perth station on 16th August 2013. <br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 16/08/2013]](/images/44000/44301.jpg "Perth")
![46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> nears Blackford with a 75th birthday special from Sheffield to Perth on 6 September 2013.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/09/2013]](/images/44000/44483.jpg "Blackford")
![Princess Coronation class 46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> negotiates the reverse curves south of Gleneagles station on 6 September 2013 with the PMR Tours <I>75th Anniversary special</I>.<br><br>[Andy Carr 06/09/2013]](/images/44000/44487.jpg "Gleneagles")
![46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> departs from Perth on 7 September with her 75th anniversary special to Sheffield, leaving a pall of steam over the site of Perth South shed.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 07/09/2013]](/images/44000/44499.jpg "Perth")
![46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> approaching Stirling station southbound on 7 September during day 2 of the PMR Tours 75thAnniversary Special.<br><br>[Andy Carr 07/09/2013]](/images/44000/44508.jpg "Stirling")
![Stanier Pacific 46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I> southbound from Perth on 7 September with the 75th Anniversary special.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 07/09/2013]](/images/44000/44520.jpg "Perth")
![Rebuilt Scot 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> approaching Blackford on 23 September 2013 with a special train from Edinburgh to Gleneagles to mark the fact that there is one year to go until the start of the Ryder Cup.<br><br>[John Robin 23/09/2013]](/images/44000/44689.jpg "Blackford")
![A last look at the semaphore signals at the south end of Stirling station on 28th September 2013. After the last train on the following Friday, they were taken out of use and removed. The class 66 is waiting to proceed past Stirling Middle box in association with the intensive track renewal and extension work taking place that weekend.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 28/09/2013]](/images/47000/47544.jpg "Stirling")
![Starter signals at the south end of Stirling station on 29 September 2013... rumoured to be gone in a weeks time...<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/09/2013]](/images/44000/44779.jpg "Stirling")
![Quiet period at Stirling during an engineers possession on 29 September. Some units are stabled in the north bays.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/09/2013]](/images/44000/44800.jpg "Stirling")
![Work on the replacement of the old carriage shed at Perth on 22 October 2013. [See image 9959]<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/10/2013]](/images/45000/45283.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![A bust of documentary filmmaker John Grierson, by artist Kenny Munro, currently located on the footbridge at Stirling station. Photographed on 13 November 2013.<br><br>[Colin Martin 13/11/2013]](/images/45000/45299.jpg "Stirling")
![Changes at Gleneagles station in preparation for the Ryder Cup in September include removal of the disused footbridge that spanned the former Crieff platform. View south along the old platform on 21 January. [See image 2187] <br><br>[John Yellowlees 21/01/2014]](/images/46000/46041.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The temporary footbridge in place over the operational platforms at Gleneagles on 21 January 2014. Various improvements are being undertaken here which will make the station much more accessible in advance of September's Ryder Cup. [See image 46041]<br><br>[John Yellowlees 21/01/2014]](/images/46000/46042.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Disbelief plus annoyance is the reaction of some bleary-eyed arrivals at Dunblane on the morning of Sunday 9th March 2014. At close of business the night before, there had been two footbridges linking the platforms, but by dawn, only one remained, and that did not allow exit on the west side of the station. Some were faced with a long walk around... Removal of the council owned footbridge pending construction of a new version with lifts by Network Rail temporarily revealed the southern aspect of the original Victorian footbridge for the first time since the early 1970s. [See image 4210]<br><br>[Mark Dufton 09/03/2014]](/images/48000/48400.jpg "Dunblane")
![170419 takes the Stirling line at Carmuirs West Junction on 11 March 2014 with the Falkirk Grahamston route in the foreground in a view only possible after demolition of the signalbox. [See image 15131]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/03/2014]](/images/46000/46607.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![DBS 66018 climbs away from Carmuirs West on 11 March with empty coal hoppers returning from Longannet to Hunterston.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/03/2014]](/images/46000/46621.jpg "Carmuirs West Junction")
![DRS 66432 nears Carmuirs Tunnel under the Forth and Clyde Canal on 11 March with the Daventry - Grangemouth W H Malcolm train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/03/2014]](/images/46000/46629.jpg "Carmuirs Tunnel")
![This Victorian railway barrow presented by the Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery to Stirling Rotary has now been restored by them and placed on display at Stirling Station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 27/03/2014]](/images/46000/46786.jpg "Stirling")
![Work at Gleneagles station progressing in readiness for the 2014 Ryder Cup which takes place in September. View south on 15 April along the former Crieff platform.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 15/04/2014]](/images/47000/47005.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The up Inverness - Kings Cross <I>Highland Chieftain</I> calls at Gleneagles on 15 April during ongoing works in preparation for the forthcoming Ryder Cup. [See image 47005] <br><br>[John Yellowlees 15/04/2014]](/images/47000/47016.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The SRPS <I>Forth Circle</I>, hauled by 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I>, passing Cowie on the climb away from Stirling on 27 April 2014, with the castle on the skyline.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/04/2014]](/images/47000/47142.jpg "Cowie")
![60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> during the photo stop at Stirling station with the afternoon running of the SRPS <I>Forth Circle</I> railtour on Sunday, 27 April, 2014.<br><br>[Andy Carr 27/04/2014]](/images/47000/47144.jpg "Stirling")
![Black 5 44871, displaying the headboard of <I>The Cathedrals Explorer</I>, leads classmate 45407 on an energetic departure from Perth on 10 May 2014, bound for Inverness. (Editors note: The special is also referred to as <I>The Highlands and Islands Explorer</I>.)<br><br>[John Robin 10/05/2014]](/images/47000/47275.jpg "Perth")
![Black 5s 44871+45407 stand at Perth station on 10 May 2014 with <I>The Cathedrals Explorer</I> for Inverness.<br><br>[John Robin 10/05/2014]](/images/47000/47289.jpg "Perth")
![<I>The Cathedrals Explorer</I> arriving at Perth on 10 May behind Black 5s 44871+45407. <br><br>[John Robin 10/05/2014]](/images/47000/47323.jpg "Perth")
![Black 5s 44871+45407 leave Perth station on 10 May 2014 with <I>The Cathedrals Explorer</I> for Inverness.<br><br>[John Robin 10/05/2014]](/images/47000/47861.jpg "Perth")
![44871 and 45407 take the <I>Cathedrals Explorer / Highlands and Islands Explorer</I> through Auchterarder en route from Inverness to Fort William on 13 May.<br><br>[John Robin 13/05/2014]](/images/47000/47310.jpg "Auchterarder")
![DRS 66302 nears Blackford with the Mossend - Aberdeen intermodal on 13 May 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/05/2014]](/images/47000/47311.jpg "Blackford")
![44871 and 45407 passing Blackford on 13 May with <I>The Cathedrals Explorer</I> from Inverness to Fort William. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/05/2014]](/images/47000/47321.jpg "Blackford")
![The new access road to the improved Gleneagles Station is now open with banners welcoming the 2014 Ryder Cup to Perthshire.<br><br>[John Robin 27/06/2014]](/images/47000/47787.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A northbound train heading through Gleneagles on 27 June, showing the new car park and station improvements made for the Ryder Cup golf tournament in September.<br><br>[John Robin 27/06/2014]](/images/47000/47797.jpg "Gleneagles")
![158739 forming the 1402 service to Edinburgh waits to leave bay platform 5 at Perth on 28 June 2014.<br><br>[Sandy Steele 28/06/2014]](/images/49000/49454.jpg "Perth")
![Perth stabling sidings on 29 June. A class 170 is in residence, standing alongside a polytunnel.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/06/2014]](/images/47000/47878.jpg "Perth Carriage Sidings")
![View south east across Dunblane station from the upper level of Stirling Council's Springfield Terrace car park on 8 July 2014. Work continues apace on the new <I>unified footbridge</I> which will connect the lower level of the car park to the station. The original station-only footbridge is visible centre frame. [See image 17453]<br><br>[Colin Martin 08/07/2014]](/images/47000/47975.jpg "Dunblane")
![A Nairn - Millerhill freight passes though the site of the original Bridge of Allan station on the morning of 1 September 2014.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 01/09/2014]](/images/48000/48551.jpg "Bridge of Allan [1st]")
![The southbound <I>Highland Chieftain</I> about to leave Stirling platform 3 on 1 September 2014. The DMU waiting in bay platform 7 will form the 11:23 service to Glasgow Queen Street.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 01/09/2014]](/images/48000/48559.jpg "Stirling")
![The 09:34 service to Dundee draws into platform 2 at the well preserved Stirling station on 1 September 2014.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 01/09/2014]](/images/48000/48569.jpg "Stirling")
![The morning <I>Forth Circle</I> SRPS Railtour stands at Stirling station on 14 September 2014 behind Stanier Pacific 46233 <I>Duchess of Sutherland</I>.<br><br>[John Robin 14/09/2014]](/images/48000/48697.jpg "Stirling")
![170452 speeds south through Gleneagles on 23 October.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/10/2014]](/images/49000/49177.jpg "Gleneagles")
![DRS 68002 nears Gleneagles with the Mossend - Aberdeen intermodal on 23 October.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/10/2014]](/images/49000/49199.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The 12.41 Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen calls at Gleneagles on 23 October.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/10/2014]](/images/49000/49299.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Running in the guise of former Finsbury Park classmate 55003 'Meld', 55022 sets off from Perth with an Inverness - Polmadie ECS working on 27th March 2015.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Graeme Blair 27/03/2015]](/images/61000/61212.jpg "Perth")
![One of a number of Abellio platform posters unveiled at Stirling station on 1 April 2015, the first day of the new ScotRail franchise. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2015]](/images/50000/50832.jpg "Stirling")
![The 0833 Edinburgh - Dunblane runs into Stirling platform 2 on the morning of 1 April 2015. The red carpet beyond the train is part of an Abellio launch event to mark their takeover of the ScotRail franchise. At the top left of the picture Stirling Castle looks on impassively, having seen it all before. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2015]](/images/50000/50834.jpg "Stirling")
![The 1013 Dunblane - Glasgow Queen Street boards at Stirling platform 3 on 1 April 2015, while the Abellio launch celebrations continue over on platform 2.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2015]](/images/50000/50849.jpg "Stirling")
![A harsh morning sun illuminates the 0923 ScotRail service to Glasgow Queen Street awaiting its departure time in bay platform 7 at Stirling station on 1 April 2015. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2015]](/images/50000/50865.jpg "Stirling")
![The VTEC 0755 Inverness - Kings Cross <I>Highland Chieftain</I> about to pull away from the Stirling stop on 1 April 2015. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2015]](/images/50000/50883.jpg "Stirling")
![The 0613 Oxwellmains - Aberdeen Craiginches cement train about to run north through Stirling station on a bright and sunny morning on 1 April 2015. The locomotive is Freightliner 66618.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2015]](/images/50000/50921.jpg "Stirling")
![The 0841 Glasgow Queen Street Aberdeen meets the 0903 Dunblane Edinburgh at Stirling on 1 April 2015, day 1 of Abellio ScotRail operations. Not the best start date perhaps...<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2015]](/images/51000/51034.jpg "Stirling")
![The 0919 Glasgow Queen Street - Alloa arrives at Stirling platform 6 on 1 April 2015.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2015]](/images/51000/51144.jpg "Stirling")
![A bright and sunny morning at Stirling station platform 9 on 1 April 2015 sees the 0836 Alloa - Glasgow Queen Street marking time during its scheduled 8 minute stopover here, following a 9 minute journey from Alloa.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2015]](/images/51000/51488.jpg "Stirling")
![Shortly after leaving Larbert on 15 May 2015 the 1158 Dunblane - Edinburgh crosses the viaduct over the River Carron. <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/05/2015]](/images/51000/51424.jpg "Larbert Viaduct")
![DBS 66067 has just taken the right fork at Larbert Junction on 20 May 2015 with a return empty working from Longannet power station to Hunterston coal import terminal. From here the train will drop down to Carmuirs West Junction before passing below the Forth and Clyde Canal. In the background a canal boat is about to enter the upper gondola of the Falkirk Wheel on the Union Canal, prior to being lowered to the basin of the Forth and Clyde Canal 115 ft below. <br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2015]](/images/51000/51378.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Approaching Larbert Junction from the north on 20 May 2015 is DBS 66067 with a return empty working from Longannet power station to Hunterston coal import terminal.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2015]](/images/51000/51646.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![ScotRail 158782 drops down from Larbert Junction towards Carmuirs East on 20 May 2015 with a Dunblane - Edinburgh service. Over on the right is the route to Carmuirs West, also on a falling gradient in order to pass below the Forth and Clyde Canal, above which stands the Falkirk Wheel in the right background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2015]](/images/63000/63421.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![DRS 66423 passes ScotRail 170 and 158 units stabled in bay platform 5 at Perth station on 28 June 2015 with a Moy - Millerhill spent ballast train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/06/2015]](/images/51000/51802.jpg "Perth")
![Freightliner 66595 passing through Perth station on 28 June 2015 with a Carmont - Millerhill ballast train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/06/2015]](/images/51000/51808.jpg "Perth")
![A look across the generously-platformed Stirling station in September 2015 showing, left to right, platforms 2, 3, 7 (with Glasgow-bound 158), 8, 6, 9 and 10. The photograph might have been better composed had I not just, like the young man from Dundee, been stung on the neck by a wasp (while failing to photograph a down freight).<br><br>[David Panton 01/09/2015]](/images/52000/52451.jpg "Stirling")
![37259 brings up the rear of a steel sleeper train hauled by 66106 fro Mossend to Forsinard, and passes Stirling North 'box.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/09/2015]](/images/52000/52771.jpg "Stirling North Junction")
![Matching liveries at Larbert.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/11/2015]](/images/53000/53368.jpg "Larbert")
![Minister for Transport and Islands, Derek Mackay, formally launched the Strathallan Community Rail Partnership today. The announcement was made at Gleneagles Station, which benefitted from a recent £7 million upgrade funded by Scottish Government, Tactran and Perth and Kinross Council ahead of the 2014 Ryder Cup. Building on this successful event the venue was also awarded the rights to host Solheim Cup in 2019.<br><br>
<br><br>
This new partnership, funded by Transport Scotland and the Abellio ScotRail franchise, aims to foster greater community engagement between the railway, the public and local business along the Bridge of Allan – Gleneagles corridor.<br><br>
<br><br>
From left to right<br><br>
Phil Verster, ScotRail Alliance managing director<br><br>
Mark Byrne, ScotRail station team manager<br><br>
Derek Mackay, Minister for Transport and Islands<br><br>
Roger Brickell, Strathallan CRP convener<br><br>
[SNS Group image.]<br><br>[ScotRail 15/12/2015]](/images/53000/53580.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Under the ScotRail Deal we are showing our appreciation of the hours volunteered by our hardworking station adopters through a quarterly prize-draw. The prizes are three pairs of Freedom of Scotland Travelpasses offering unlimited travel for eight days, and the first three winners are Alness, Bridge of Allan and Renton. Seen here with chairman Elizabeth Rankin (centre left) are the Friends of Bridge of Allan celebrating what could just be the first day of spring.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 17/02/2016]](/images/54000/54258.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![A united corporate front is presented by 170 452 on the 14.41 from Glasgow QS to Aberdeen, with 170 395 on the 15.13 to Glasgow on the left and 170 460 recently arrived from Edinburgh on the right.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/02/2016]](/images/54000/54332.jpg "Dunblane")
![DRS 68001 <I>Evolution</I> takes the Grangemouth to Aberdeen intermodal service through Bridge of Allan on 27th February 2016.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/02/2016]](/images/54000/54350.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![170 460 eases out of Dunblane loop in preparation for reversal and <br>
then a return to Edinburgh. DBS 66111, with empty tanks from Lairg to Mossend, waits patiently for these manoeuvres to be completed.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/02/2016]](/images/54000/54397.jpg "Dunblane")
![66111 enters Dunblane with the empty fuel tanks from Lairg on 27 February 2016. Switch of this traffic to road transport has been announced.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/02/2016]](/images/58000/58767.jpg "Dunblane")
![Freightliner 66957 works a Sunday ballast train south through Dunblane on 28th February 2016.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/02/2016]](/images/54000/54364.jpg "Dunblane")
![68001 heads north from Dunblane with the daily Grangemouth - Aberdeen<br>
intermodal.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/02/2016]](/images/54000/54525.jpg "Dunblane")
![The Perth destination board shows the 15:16 departure for Glasgow Central. The new station footbridge at the south end of the station is in the background.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 21/03/2016]](/images/54000/54545.jpg "Perth")
![The road approach to Dunblane station from the east on 2 April 2016. On the left stands the fully accessible footbridge, commisioned in September 2014, which links the platforms with both sides of the station. The displaced Victorian footbridge that stood here has been relocated to the Caledonian Railway at Bridge of Dun. [See image 42473]<br><br>[Ross Wilson 02/04/2016]](/images/54000/54743.jpg "Dunblane")
![Black 5 No 44871 hauling The Great Britain IX north to Inverness. Pictured approaching Gleneagles.<br><br>[John Gray 30/04/2016]](/images/55000/55087.jpg "Gleneagles")
![The Inverness - Oxenholme leg of the Great Britain IX railtour, hauled by 44871 with 47760 on the rear charges through Gleneagles running an hour late due to a brake problem.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/05/2016]](/images/55000/55082.jpg "Gleneagles")
![DRS 68022 nears Gleneagles with the daily Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal on 3 May.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/05/2016]](/images/55000/55094.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Plaque unveiled today at Gleneagles by Andy Savage RHT and Fred Garner of Taylor Woodrow.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 05/05/2016]](/images/55000/55171.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A 5-coach service for Glasgow Central (yes, Central) leaves Perth.<br><br>[David Panton 17/05/2016]](/images/55000/55219.jpg "Perth")
![Larbert looking lovely thanks to the Vale of Carron Rotary.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 13/06/2016]](/images/55000/55520.jpg "Larbert")
![Gresley didn't get his mallard at King's Cross, but look what is on John Grierson's bust at Stirling!<br>
<br>
Grierson was a documentary maker of 'Night Mail', and many other films, fame and coined the term 'documentary' itself.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 13/07/2016]](/images/56000/56162.jpg "Stirling")
![Details of documentary maker John Grierson's life from the bust at Stirling station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 13/07/2016]](/images/56000/56163.jpg "Stirling")
![Turbo star 170456, on the 12.23 service to Glasgow Queen Street HL, seen at Stirling on 13th July 2016.<br><br>[Gordon Steel 13/07/2016]](/images/62000/62274.jpg "Stirling")
![Stirling looking North on platform 5.<br><br>[Gordon Steel 13/07/2016]](/images/62000/62683.jpg "Stirling")
![The level crossing at Cornton on 1st August 2016. Network Rail is seeking to close the existing vehicle and foot crossings at Cornton and replace them with a road bridge incorporating pedestrian and cycle access before the railway through Stirling is electrified in 2019. Plans were unveiled at two local public meetings in June 2016. <br>
<br><br>[Colin McDonald 01/08/2016]](/images/56000/56032.jpg "Cornton")
![A quick grabshot taken while walking (briskly) across the line at Cornton on 1st August 2016. Before the railway through Stirling is electrified in 2019, Network Rail plans to close the existing vehicle and foot crossings at Cornton and replace them with a road bridge with pedestrian and cycle access. <br><br>[Colin McDonald 01/08/2016]](/images/56000/56059.jpg "Cornton")
![A Class 170 DMU approaches the 1985 Bridge of Allan station from Dunblane. There is a currently a TACTRAN proposal in development to relocate to station further south, nearer to Cornton and Causewayhead. <br><br>[Colin McDonald 01/08/2016]](/images/56000/56261.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![66429 approaching Whitemoss LC with 6K50 ballast from Rogart to Mossend via Millerhill.<br><br>[John Robin 28/08/2016]](/images/56000/56330.jpg "Auchterarder, Whitemoss LC")
![An Inverness to Glasgow service departs Perth with a honk for trackworkers ahead. This view gives a rather misleading picture of the station which in the main is unreconstructed Victorian (and all the better for it).<br><br>[David Panton 05/10/2016]](/images/56000/56774.jpg "Perth")
![An Edinburgh service pulls out of the usual Platform 5 at Perth on 05/10/2016. This ironwork at this side of the station has not seen a paintbrush for decades. Just saying.<br><br>[David Panton 05/10/2016]](/images/56000/56781.jpg "Perth")
![The smartly turned-out Gleneagles has a waiting room on each platform. Here is the southbound one photographed 26/10/2016. Anyone missing the 1253 service to Glasgow has plenty of time to get familiar with it as the next train isn't until teatime ...<br><br>[David Panton 26/10/2016]](/images/57000/57028.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A 170 from Edinburgh sits in arrivals-only Platform 3 to allow a Glasgow to Inverness train to enter. Once the through lines are clear the set will run forward then reverse into Platform 1 to return to Edinburgh. Photographed on a dull 26/10/2016.<br><br>[David Panton 26/10/2016]](/images/57000/57052.jpg "Dunblane")
![A Glasgow-bound service calls at the immaculate Gleneagles station on 26/10/2016. Gleneagles shows that a station doesn't have to be staffed to look good. Incidentally Gleneagles doesn't exist according to the BBC weather app so as you can see it has no weather.<br><br>[David Panton 26/10/2016]](/images/57000/57058.jpg "Gleneagles")
![A service for Glasgow about to depart Stirling on 26/10/2016. During the day alternate trains run through from Alloa to provide a half-hourly stopping service to Glasgow as well as the regular expresses.<br><br>[David Panton 26/10/2016]](/images/57000/57067.jpg "Stirling")
![A northbound service pulls out of Gleneagles on 26 October 2016. The Gaelic<br>
version of the name on the sign can't be faulted: 'valley of the church'<br>
and nothing to do with eagles.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 26/10/2016]](/images/62000/62101.jpg "Gleneagles")
![DB Cargo 66102 takes the Cumbernauld line at Greenhill Lower Junction with a Grangemouth - Mossend intermodal trip on 7 November. Not the concrete base prepared off to the left.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 07/11/2016]](/images/57000/57100.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![An Alloa - Glasgow Queen Street service about to pass under the A905 Kerse Road overbridge. Plans have been submitted for its replacement as part of the preparation for electrification. The current bridge could accommodate 4 tracks but its replacement will span only the existing 3 tracks.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 30/01/2017]](/images/57000/57960.jpg "Stirling South")
![View from the A91 overbridge as a mid afternoon Edinburgh - Dunblane service approaches the St. Ninian's foot crossing as it heads towards Stirling in January 2017. Vegetation clearance has been taking place in preparation for electrification work. <br><br>[Colin McDonald 30/01/2017]](/images/57000/57970.jpg "Polmaise Junction")
![View south from the A905 Kerse Road overbridge as 170452 approaches Stirling. The bridge is due to be closed for replacement for 12 months from May 2017. The 1.8m parapets on the new bridge will not be so photo friendly.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 30/01/2017]](/images/58000/58023.jpg "Stirling South")
![Looking west at the 1968 Kerse Road overbridge which is scheduled for replacement as part of the preparatory works for electrification. Part of the A905 will be closed for 12 months from May 2017.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 30/01/2017]](/images/58000/58030.jpg "Stirling South")
![Work has started on the contractor's compound for the construction of the St. Ninian's (Millhall Road) pedestrian bridge which will replace a particularly dangerous foot crossing. According to Network Rail 'Millhall Road is already Scotland’s highest risk pedestrian level crossing – with one fatal accident and six near misses since 2010 – and faster, quieter electric trains will further increase the safety risk at the crossing'.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 30/01/2017]](/images/58000/58036.jpg "Stirling South")
![The stock of the Caledonian Sleeper led by Class 73/9 and Class 66 locos heads south out of Stirling past the site of the former Polmaise colliery sidings on 18th February 2017. The train was en route from Aberdeen to Polmadie Carriage Maintenance Depot.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 18/02/2017]](/images/58000/58355.jpg "Polmaise Junction")
![This foot crossing is south of the better known LC between Stirling and Bridge of Allan. It is under threat of closure, possibly influenced by a fatality here last year. Note the plea to the despairing as seen at a number of locations open to speeding trains. Photographed 24/02/2017.<br><br>[David Panton 24/02/2017]](/images/58000/58471.jpg "Easter Cornton Crossing")
![Dunblane tonight, it's lit up like a Christmas tree!<br><br>[Alan Cormack 05/03/2017]](/images/58000/58354.jpg "Dunblane")
![Dunblane-Edinburgh (170 410) and Glasgow-Alloa (170 474) services pass each other near the site of Polmaise Junction on 25th March 2017. The snowy peak of Uamh Bheag looms in the background. <br><br>[Mark Dufton 25/03/2017]](/images/59000/59803.jpg "Polmaise Junction")
![It is still possible (just) to get a shot from the road bridge at Greenhill lower. Caught through the new forest of metal and wires is 170 407. This view is looking east towards Carmuirs. Work is still on going on the electrical supply station sub station in the Y between high and low lines.<br><br>[Douglas McPherson 27/03/2017]](/images/58000/58597.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![It is still possible (just) to get a shot from Greenhill lower. Caught through the new forest of metal and wires is 170 455 in this view looking west towards the upper junction.<br><br>[Douglas McPherson 27/03/2017]](/images/58000/58603.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![Seen today on an Oxwellmains-Craginches working carrying cement for construction of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 30/03/2017]](/images/58000/58817.jpg "Perth")
![62005 making the air a little dirty at Perth on the 3rd of May.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 03/05/2017]](/images/59000/59195.jpg "Perth")
![Having detached Black 5 No.45212 at Perth, K1 No.62005 leads * The Great Britain X * through Gleneagles on the way to Glasgow.<br><br>[John Gray 03/05/2017]](/images/59000/59229.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Track inspection saloon 975025 Caroline is propelled through Gleneagles<br>
by 37409 Lord Hinton on the way to Inverness.<br><br>[John Gray 03/05/2017]](/images/59000/59251.jpg "Gleneagles")
![Vegetation clearance for the overheads has opened up locations not available for years, but not for long. With the encroaching masts in the distance 60076, with the Dalston - Grangemouth empties, crosses Broomhill Road overbridge east of Greenhill on 5th May 2017.<br><br>[Douglas McPherson 05/05/2017]](/images/59000/59222.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![A through service to Glasgow pulls into Platform 1 at Dunblane while the ex-Edinburgh train waits in the reversing stub to replace it and return to the capital. The Edinburgh train had arrived in Platform 3 (left). These manoeuvres may seem a little unnecessary when Platform 3 is off the main line, but the<br>
Platform 3 track has no southbound connection with the up line. Platform 1<br>
is also more accessible for passengers.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 18/05/2017]](/images/59000/59368.jpg "Dunblane")
![158 724 calls at Bridge of Allan with a Dunblane to Edinburgh service on 18th May 2017. An opposite working heads north, passing the site of the original station on the other side of the old A9 road bridge. [See image 39457]<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 18/05/2017]](/images/59000/59382.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![An Edinburgh service pulls out of Dunblane after a few minutes wait for the road. The starter signal on the up side is MAS while the down starter is still old tech. Both are controlled by Dunblane box, just visible behind the bridge. It's quite remarkable, when you think about it, that Victorian technology survives in this day and age - and there seems to be no hurry to<br>
replace it!<br><br>[David Panton 18/05/2017]](/images/59000/59396.jpg "Dunblane")
![An Aberdeen to Glasgow service pulls out of Stirling on 18/05/2017. A 158<br>
is stabled at Platform 8.<br><br>[David Panton 18/05/2017]](/images/59000/59421.jpg "Stirling")
![A Glasgow to Alloa service pulls into Stirling on a fine, warm 18/05/2017. Platform 6 is used by most of these trains in both directions. Platform 9 is in regular, though less frequent use, but by the look of it bay Platform 10 (far left) sees little use now; it certainly has no departure screen.<br><br>[David Panton 18/05/2017]](/images/59000/59445.jpg "Stirling")
![DRS 66431 takes the Dundee line with the 4A13 Grangemouth - Aberdeen Craiginches intermodal on 25 June.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/06/2017]](/images/59000/59857.jpg "Perth")
![The Bridge of Allan station adopters have erected a plaque commemorating John Yellowlees' huge contribution to the station adoption programme. John is seen with the plaque in July 2017. The plaque reads:<br><br>
Planted by Friends of Bridge of Allan to mark the retiral of John Yellowlees in appreciation of the contribution he made to 'Adopt a Station'.<br><br>[David Prescott 04/07/2017]](/images/59000/59874.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![A new plaque erected at Bridge of Allan station today (4th of July 2017).<br><br>
<i>Planted by</i> Friends of Bridge of Allan to Mark the retiral of John Yellowlees in appreciation of the contribution he made to 'Adopt a Station'.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 04/07/2017]](/images/59000/59875.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![A lovely clematis on the southbound platform at Bridge of Allan.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 04/07/2017]](/images/59000/59876.jpg "Bridge of Allan")
![The Ironing Station in Dunblane station, with an interesting variation on the totem for a logo. <a target=external href=http://www.theironingstation.co.uk/index2.shtml>The Ironing Station</a>. <br><br>[John Yellowlees 04/07/2017]](/images/60000/60098.jpg "Dunblane")
![Dunblane station, as viewed from the new footbridge.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 04/07/2017]](/images/60000/60232.jpg "Dunblane")
![Dunblane: the new footbridge and planter at Dunblane.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 04/07/2017]](/images/62000/62132.jpg "Dunblane")
![1E13 arriving at Stirling with the Inverness to London Kings Cross. Details of the alterations to the station to allow electrification are now at <a href=https://pabs.stirling.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=OSZDMVPIL1Z00 target=external>planning approval</a> (see the Heritage Report in particular). The footbridge will be raised and canopies cut back.<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 29/07/2017]](/images/60000/60267.jpg "Stirling")
![1E13 departing from Stirling with the Inverness to London Kings Cross.<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 29/07/2017]](/images/60000/60353.jpg "Stirling")
![0948 from Glasgow Queen St to Stirling arriving at its destination.<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 29/07/2017]](/images/60000/60372.jpg "Stirling")
![A dreich morning and just about light enough for photographs. The 05 26 VTEC service to Kings Cross seen on Monday 7 August 2017.<br><br>[David Prescott 07/08/2017]](/images/60000/60299.jpg "Stirling")
![First light on a damp morning at Stirling and the red and grey livery of the 0526 VTEC service to Kings Cross contrasts with the blue of the Scotrail Sprinter in the bay platform. 7th August 2017.<br>
<br><br>[David Prescott 07/08/2017]](/images/60000/60355.jpg "Stirling")
![Looking south from the Stirling footbridge as the 0526 Virgin service to Kings Cross is made ready for departure on Monday 7 August 2017.<br>
<br><br>[David Prescott 07/08/2017]](/images/60000/60469.jpg "Stirling")
![Colas 56302 enters Stirling with the threatened Grangemouth Ineos - Lairg fuel tanks on 23rd August 2017. Stirling Middle signal box is in the background.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/08/2017]](/images/60000/60482.jpg "Stirling")
![170411 passes Greenloaning station, closed in 1956, on 23rd Agust 2017.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/08/2017]](/images/60000/60606.jpg "Greenloaning")
![170457 passes the last co-acting signal on Network Rail Scotland, Greenloaning's up starter. 23rd August 2017.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/08/2017]](/images/60000/60611.jpg "Greenloaning")
![170427 passes the former Blackford station and goods yard on 23rd August 2017. There is little evidence of the planned Highland Spring terminal yet.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/08/2017]](/images/60000/60633.jpg "Blackford")
![66305 draws the Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal service through Stirling on 23rd August 2017.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/08/2017]](/images/60000/60638.jpg "Stirling")
![170411 passes Greenloaning signalbox on 23rd August 2017. The box is switched out and the passing loops and crossovers have been disconnected.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/08/2017]](/images/60000/60644.jpg "Greenloaning")
![170394 enters Stirling, passing the North signalbox and the Down home signal on 23rd August 2017. This and the Down starter are the last semaphore signals in the station area.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/08/2017]](/images/60000/60687.jpg "Stirling")
![The 13.04 from Edinburgh, arrival 14.08, leaves the loop platform at Dunblane to gain the crossover and return to form the 14.29 back to the capital.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 29/08/2017]](/images/60000/60675.jpg "Dunblane")
![The leaves on the line are safe for the time being as the leafblaster takes<br>
a break at Platform 6 in Perth. Six has no scheduled (or perhaps unscheduled)<br>
passenger use.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 04/10/2017]](/images/61000/61206.jpg "Perth")
![Crew change for an Inverness service in Platform 7 at Perth on 4th October 2017.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 04/10/2017]](/images/61000/61237.jpg "Perth")
![The 1915 station building (why does it have the date 1913 carved on it?) viewed from across what is now Goosecroft Road. Staion Road is out of frame to the right of this photo.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 05/10/2017]](/images/61000/61189.jpg "Stirling")
![A typical early afternoon scene at Stirling in October 2017 featuring a variety of Diesel Multiple Units. Unseen in the distance behind the camera is an inexorable nightly advance of OHLE masts and bases which will soon change the view.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 05/10/2017]](/images/61000/61204.jpg "Stirling")
![With the location almost unrecognisable, this is 158867 coming round the curve from Edinburgh to meet the Glasgow line at Larbert Junction. Electrification is in progress and the junction box, latterly part of the training school, has gone. All three sides of the triangle now have masts, although not all have yet been erected and wires are not in place. This, I think, is as far as they reach for now. Bases for masts continue further and even onto the Alloa line and a smattering of masts at Larbert station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61088.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![View north from Larbert, beside the signal box. The up loop has been reduced to a PW siding.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61272.jpg "Larbert")
![View south over Greenhill Lower Junction looking towards the E&G. Each line is in the process of being electrified.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61363.jpg "Greenhill Lower Junction")
![A Stirling-Glasgow service at Larbert Junction on the curve to Carmuirs West. In the foreground is a remaining parapet of the former Denny Branch line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61376.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Weekend work on the viaduct at Larbert.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61387.jpg "Larbert Viaduct")
![View south to Larbert showing electrification masts between the platforms, the old station building above the train and signal box to left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61411.jpg "Larbert")
![The exposed beams on Perth Road bridge, just south of Dunblane station, on Friday 13th October 2017. The bridge was to be removed early Saturday morning with new beams being installed over the weekend. <br>
<br><br>[David Prescott 13/10/2017]](/images/61000/61194.jpg "Dunblane")
![A roadrailer (with an impressive auger attachment) being delivered to Dunblane station on 13th October 2017 in connection with the project to remove and replace the Perth Road railway bridge.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Prescott 13/10/2017]](/images/61000/61302.jpg "Dunblane")
![A contrast of old (the signal box) and new (the Network Rail Training Centre) at Larbert. The view looks north just north of the station.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 17/10/2017]](/images/61000/61469.jpg "Larbert")
![The 'Royal Scotsman' seen at Perth.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 19/10/2017]](/images/61000/61422.jpg "Perth")
![DRS 66303 passes Stirling North signal box with an empty ballast to Millerhill. The main line was blocked at Cornton a little to the north for EGIP work, with Alloa branch (on the right) services unaffected.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/10/2017]](/images/61000/61498.jpg "Stirling")
![Stirling recedes into the distance as the 12.35 HST service leaves the city for Kings Cross on 26th November 2017. The rear power car has just passed through the site of the former Bannockburn station which lay round the curve. By January 2018, the onward march of electrification masts had taken its toll on this view.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 26/11/2017]](/images/62000/62714.jpg "Bannockburn")
![The 0928 to Edinburgh waits for departure time in Dunblane station on 28th November 2017, as Colas 60047 passes through with a freight service.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Prescott 28/11/2017]](/images/62000/62013.jpg "Dunblane")
![A Glasgow to Inverness service passes the northern throat (if it can be<br>
called that) of Perth station on 3rd December 2017. It is on the Platform 7 line:<br>
the running line in front of it is for Platforms 3 and 4 in the train shed.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 03/12/2017]](/images/62000/62115.jpg "Perth")
![Up Chieftain arriving at Stirling.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 04/12/2017]](/images/62000/62049.jpg "Stirling")
![The 1607 departure for Edinburgh in Platform 8 at Stirling on 4th December 2017.<br>
<br><br>[John Yellowlees 04/12/2017]](/images/62000/62096.jpg "Stirling")
![Altogether now: 'See it; say it; sorted'. The BTP liveried 170 407 calls at<br>
Perth with a Glasgow to Aberdeen service on 5 December.<br><br>[David Panton 05/12/2017]](/images/62000/62215.jpg "Perth")
![A Dunblane service calls at Stirling on 5th December 2017. It is somehow hard to<br>
imagine electrics here but that is the plan for 2019. It will require some alteration of the canopies, though I read that the footbridge above the train here will be retained, needing only to be jacked up a bit. However the fine footbridge between Platforms 6 and 9 will have to be replaced by an accessible one, and we all know what that means.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 05/12/2017]](/images/62000/62249.jpg "Stirling")
![ScotRail 158782 passes Stirling's former St. Ninian's (Millhall Road) crossing which had, until relatively recently, the dubious honour of being regarded as Scotland’s highest risk pedestrian level crossing. View is north from the new footbridge completed during 2017.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 31/12/2017]](/images/62000/62359.jpg "Stirling South")
![View north east of part of the temporary pedestrian and services bridge which has been erected alongside the A905 Kerse Road overbridge. Revised plans have now been approved for the work as part of the preparation for electrification. <br>
<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Colin McDonald 31/12/2017]](/images/62000/62395.jpg "Stirling South")
![View of (and from) the new and very substantial pedestrian bridge which replaces the former St. Ninian's (Millhall Road) crossing.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 31/12/2017]](/images/62000/62402.jpg "Stirling South")
![A double hold up at Dunblane on a sub-zero 20th January 2018. To the right is the Caledonian Sleeper running ECS between Aberdeen and Polmadie. To the left is the 12.13 service to Glasgow Queen Street. Both are waiting upon the 11.58 service to Edinburgh to clear the station.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 20/01/2018]](/images/62000/62703.jpg "Dunblane")
![South end of Perth Station with a Turbostar 170404 on the 1238hrs service to Glasgow Queen Street, which originated at Inverness. 19th February 2018<br><br>[Gordon Steel 19/02/2018]](/images/62000/62964.jpg "Perth")
![Running only 5 minutes behind time, the up Highland Chieftan does courageous battle with the “Beast from the East” at Dunblane on 28th February 2018. The “snowflake” generation of Class 170 and 158 DMUs on the other services was soon out of its depth, however, and within a few hours the system was at a standstill.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 28/02/2018]](/images/63000/63126.jpg "Dunblane")
![DRS 37602 encounters a small snowdrift alongside Dunblane signal box on the afternoon of Friday 2nd March 2018. The loco was top and tailed with a Class 66 on a Network Rail special. This is Network Rail's 'Snow Train / Winter Train'. the bridge is the Bridgend footbridge beside the signal box - the most northerly structure to be altered for electrification.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Prescott 02/03/2018]](/images/63000/63052.jpg "Dunblane")
![Disruptive snow conditions in Dunblane station on 2nd March 2018. DRS 37602 is engaged on a Network Rail special working.<br>
<br><br>[David Prescott 02/03/2018]](/images/63000/63096.jpg "Dunblane")
![The 'Winter Train' held north of Dunblane station alongside the signal box.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Prescott 02/03/2018]](/images/63000/63270.jpg "Dunblane")
![What a difference a day makes. Probably the southbound 1T80 Inverness - Queen Street.<br><br>[David Prescott 04/03/2018]](/images/63000/63078.jpg "Dunblane")
![The 1A88, ex Glasgow, departs north from Dunblane station on 4th March 2018.<br><br>[David Prescott 04/03/2018]](/images/63000/63310.jpg "Dunblane")
![A view that will not be possible soon. A Class 158 off the 1248hrs Queen St - Dunblane waiting on the down main to form the 1413hrs back to Queen St, after the 1358hrs to Waverley had departed. When the leaves fall in the autumn Class 385 EMUs ought to be appearing. Viewed from in front of the west door of the Cathedral on Monday 12 March 2018.<br><br>[David Prescott 12/03/2018]](/images/63000/63286.jpg "Dunblane")
![A Stirling to Glasgow service halts, as required, at the southern end of the Platform at Larbert on 20 March. The large gap between the tracks allows the OHLE masts to be installed there, rather than on the platforms which is presumably a more expensive and less safe option.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 20/03/2018]](/images/63000/63408.jpg "Larbert")
![A southbound service passes the original Bridge of Allan station building before going under the A9 and entering the current station. Bridge of Allan is largely a Victorian creation, so its growth would have been greatly helped by the opening of this station.<br><br>[David Panton 20/03/2018]](/images/63000/63456.jpg "Bridge of Allan [1st]")
![Cornton Crossing marks the boundary between Stirling and Bridge of Allan. Plans to replace it with a bridge were dropped in July 2017, and instead it will be upgraded to full barrier. Here's how it looks for now, 20 March 2018.<br><br>[David Panton 20/03/2018]](/images/63000/63486.jpg "Cornton Level Crossing")
![A Dunblane to Edinburgh service pulls into Larbert on 20 March. It is formed of 170 416 sans vinyls, making it look rather bald. It has just passed the now closed Larbert North box (out of shot), looking as if it is still open except that the (rather collectable) name boards have been removed.<br><br>[David Panton 20/03/2018]](/images/63000/63506.jpg "Larbert")
![Easter Cornton is a foot crossing south (and east) of Cornton level crossing. Its future was in doubt for a while, but as far as I gather it is now secure since the plan to bridge Cornton was dropped. The red light is showing, accompanied by the usual mournful wail which I suppose the locals get used to as much as the sound of the rushing trains. Looking west on 20 March 2018.<br><br>[David Panton 20/03/2018]](/images/63000/63512.jpg "Easter Cornton Level Crossing")
![The sidings north of the (now closed) Larbert North box have been rejuvenated and vegetation cleared to form an OHLE compound. The kit framing the picture is called a MEWP - Mobile Elavating Work Platform. I expect you knew that. View looks north.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 20/03/2018]](/images/63000/63528.jpg "Larbert")
![The lattice footbridge from platforms 6–9 which Network Rail plans to replace with a fully accessible structure. The new bridge will also permit electrification of these platforms. The photo was taken during a 4 week closure of the Stirling–Alloa line for engineering works.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 23/03/2018]](/images/63000/63455.jpg "Stirling")
![SB Rail Unimat 08-4x4/4S-RT Tamper passes Stirling platform 3 at speed on its way to Carstairs on 23rd March 2018.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 23/03/2018]](/images/63000/63466.jpg "Stirling")
![170402 about to spring into action with the 1058 service to Edinburgh.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 23/03/2018]](/images/63000/63485.jpg "Dunblane")
![Brush type 4s D1935 and D1944 (alias 47805 and 47501, owned by Locomotive Services Ltd) pass Stirling North signalbox with a returning Kingussie - Crewe private charter.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/03/2018]](/images/63000/63348.jpg "Stirling")
![Brush type 4s D1935 and D1944 (alias 47805 and 47501, owned by Locomotive Services Ltd) pass through Stirling station, after a brief stop, with a returning Kingussie - Crewe private charter.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/03/2018]](/images/63000/63355.jpg "Stirling")
