Almondbank

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Almondbank (1858-1951)

Opened on the Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway.

Description

This was a single platform station on a single track railway with a goods yard at its west end. The station had a tall narrow two storey building, which remains today in use as a house. The platform extended from the goods yard east beyond the station building and bridge carrying the A85 overhead.

To the east was a short private - and electrified - branch which served the Huntingtower Bleachfield, and later the Almondbank Naval Stores. The Huntingtower Bleachfield Railway and Almondbank Naval Stores branch opened in 1911. This branch was approached from the west.

The goods yard was approached from the west and had a loading bank and goods shed at the west end of the passenger platform. The signal box (1892) was west of the platform and on the south side of the line opposite the east end of the short goods loop.

The box closed in 1930, replaced with a ground frame. The station closed to passengers in 1951 and the line in 1967.

The station building still stands, a fine house.

The station was at Lochty. Almondbank itself is half a mile to the north, stretched out along Main Street. It has expanded in recent years.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
01/12/2023




Chronology Dates

  /  /1878Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway
Enlargement of Almondbank approved.
22/04/1892Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway
Crieff and Methven Junction Railway
Signal boxes opened at Almondbank, Madderty and Innerpeffray.
  /  /1911Huntingtower Bleachfield Railway and Almondbank Naval Stores
A private electrified railway is opened from east of Almondbank station, on the Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway, to Lumsden and MacKenzie's Huntingtower Bleachfield and Pitcairnfield Bleach Works.
01/10/1951Crieff and Methven Junction Railway
Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway
Perth (Almond Valley Junction) (excluded) to Crieff [2nd] (excluded) closed to passengers. Stations Ruthven Road, Almondbank, Tibbermuir, Methven Junction, Balgowan, Madderty, Abercairney, Innerpeffray closed.
25/01/1965Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway
Crieff and Methven Junction Railway
Almondbank and Madderty closed to goods. Methven Junction closed to parcels.

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North of Scotland v. 15 (Regional railway history series)

An Illustrated History of Tayside's Railways

Branch Lines of Strathearn: Tourists, Tatties and Trains

Forgotten Railways: Scotland