Alyth Junction railway station explained

Alyth Junction
Status:Disused
Borough:Meigle, Angus
Country:Scotland
Coordinates:56.5735°N -3.1507°W
Original:Scottish North Eastern Railway
Pregroup:Caledonian Railway
Postgroup:London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Years:1 August 1861
Events:Station opened as Meigle[1]
Years1:1 November 1876
Events1:Renamed as Alyth Junction[2]
Years2:4 September 1967
Events2:Station closed

Alyth Junction railway station served the village of Meigle in the Scottish county of Perth and Kinross. The station was the junction where the Alyth Railway and the Dundee and Newtyle Railway diverged from the Scottish Midland Junction Railway running between Perth and Arbroath.

The station is in the Angus council area, just over the border from Meigle.

History

Opened by the Scottish North Eastern Railway, and absorbed into the Caledonian Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Railways Board.

The site today

Today some of the platforms remain and the site is waterlogged.

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Notes and References

  1. Butt (1995), page 157
  2. Butt (1995), page 16