Crook of Devon
Location type
StationName and dates
Crook of Devon (1863-1964)Opened on the Devon Valley Railway.
Description
This was a single platform station on the north side of a single track line. To the west was a goods yard on the north side of the line, approached from the west. The station was to the west of a level crossing south east of Crook of Devon itself.
The site is now occupied by housing.
A small portion of stone retaining wall remains to the east of the crossing, possibly reassembled from the removed station platform to the west.
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StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
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NLS Map
02/11/2023
| Nearby stations Rumbling Bridge [1st] Rumbling Bridge [2nd] Balado Kinross Junction [1st] Kinross Junction [2nd] Kinross [1st] Dollar Loch Leven Kinross [2nd] Loch Leven Curler^s Platform Milnathort Blairadam Oakley (Fife) East Grange Bogside Fife | Gairney Viaduct Devonshaw Tile Works Devonshaw Siding Arndean Cutting Lethans Colliery Pit No 1 Blairingone Colliery Blairingone Siding Dollar Mine Dollar Beg Siding Tourist/other Church Road Crossing [Crook of Devon] Broomhill Crossing Tullibole Crossing Arndean House Balado House Knock Hill |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/10/1868 | Devon Valley Railway Closed from Rumbling Bridge [1st] to Crook of Devon (excluded) to allow realignment. The approach to a new Rumbling Bridge station was lowered in a quarter mile cutting. (An alteration suggested by the North British Railway engineer to east the gradient on approach to Rumbling Bridge from the west.) |
| 01/10/1870 | Devon Valley Railway Re-opened from Rumbling Bridge [2nd] to Crook of Devon. |
Books
 Forgotten Railways: Scotland |
