Blair Atholl Shed
Location type
Loco shedName and dates
Blair Atholl Shed (1868-1962)Description
This was a stone built two road locomotive shed at the west (or north) end of the station, accessed from the northbound line. Its use was associated with local trains to Blair Atholl from Perth and to provide locomotive to assist trains up the bank north from the station to Druimuachdar Summit. An equivalent shed was to the north, Kingussie Shed.
The shed replaced a much smaller shed at the east end of the station, Blair Atholl Shed [1st]. Stone was sourced from the Keith Shed [HR].
The turntable was on the north side of the shed building, approached, like the shed, from the west.
The shed was rebuilt in 1940 and closed in 1962 with the end of regular steam on the Highland Main Line.
The shed building still stands, no longer railway owned, in other uses.
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ShedExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
| Nearby stations Blair Atholl Black Island Platform Killiecrankie Struan Pitlochry Grandtully Balnaguard Halt Aberfeldy Ballinluig Guay Glenlochsie Lodge Dalguise Dalmunzie Hotel Dalnaspidal Dunkeld and Birnam | Blair Atholl Shed [1st] Tilt Viaduct Bruar Viaduct Clunie Dam Killiecrankie Tunnel Killiecrankie Viaduct Pass of Killiecrankie Tourist/other Blair Castle Claverhouse Stone Bonskeid House The Soldier^s Leap Killiecrankie House Falls of Bruar Queen^s View Linn of Tummel Waterfall |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
