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This was a particularly minimal halt consisting of a slabbed area bordering the north side of the track at a level crossing and equipped with a single set of steps. These were used to mount the diesel railbuses introduced in 1958, the halt opening for their arrival (along with Strageath Halt. The Angus Railway Group's Steam Album Volume Three wonderfully described it as 'Station accommodation of the highest order'!

There was a crossing keeper's house on the north side of the level crossings, east of the road. Both the Crieff Junction Railway (on which the halt was built) and the Crieff and Methven Junction Railway (to its north) crossed the road. A gatekeeper's hut was between the lines on the east side. To the west of the crossing were signals on each line.

Nothing obvious remains of the halt, but the gatekeeper's cottage remains in use as a house and the trackbed of the northern track of the two tracks forms a dirt road running east from the former crossing.

Note that Pittentian and Pittachar are further east, and there was a further pair of level crossings and a gatekeeper's cottage here.

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