Grandtully
Location type
StationName and dates
Grandtully (1865-1965)Opened on the Aberfeldy Branch (Inverness and Perth Junction Railway).
Description
This was a one platform station with a small size Highland Railway timber building.
There was a small goods yard with a loading bank at the east end of the station and north side of the line. A goods shed was added in 1878.
The signal box was north of the goods turn out. The box closed in 1935, replaced with a ground frame.
The station remained open until line closure in 1965.
The site is now a carpark. The trackbed has been filled in, in recent years, but the platforms can still be seen. A railway cottage was at the east end of the yard. This cottage, dating from 1886, is gone.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
| Nearby stations Balnaguard Halt Pitlochry Ballinluig Aberfeldy Guay Killiecrankie Dalguise Blair Atholl Black Island Platform Dunkeld and Birnam Struan Rohallion Murthly Bankfoot Glenlochsie Lodge | Logierait Viaduct Moulinearn Crossing Tourist/other Grandtully Castle St Mary^s Church Grandtully Dunfallandy Stone Pitlochry Fish Ladder Pitlochry Festival Theatre Loch Faskally Prospect Place Foot Crossing Blair Athol Distillery Dundarach Foot Crossing Sunnybrae Cottage Moulin Level Crossing Aberfeldy Distillery East Cottages Level Crossing [Pitlochry] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Road bridge with railway supportTo the north of Grandtully village and station, over the River Tay, is Strathtay. A lattice road bridge crosses the river, the Highland Railway assisting with the cost of construction. |
Chronology Dates
| 03/07/1865 | Aberfeldy Branch (Inverness and Perth Junction Railway) Aberfeldy branch opened. Stations opened at Grandtully and Aberfeldy, and a new platform opened at the existing Ballinluig station at the junction with the main line. |
| 03/05/1965 | Aberfeldy Branch (Inverness and Perth Junction Railway) Inverness and Perth Junction Railway Aberfeldy branch closed, along with the closure of stations on the Highland Main Line with the withdrawal of local trains. On the branch Aberfeldy, Grandtully, Balnaguard Halt closed along with the junction station Ballinluig. South of the junction, on the main line, Dalguise and Murthly closed. To the north Killiecrankie, Struan, Dalnaspidal, Tomatin, Moy, Daviot, and Culloden Moor closed. |
