View from ESE showing goods train in station with down platform shelter on the left and footbridge in background
SC 796398
Description View from ESE showing goods train in station with down platform shelter on the left and footbridge in background
Date 1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 796398
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Station, Pitlochry, Perth & Kinross, looking north-west This view looking north-west and taken in May 1976 shows a heavy north-bound goods train in the station, with the brake van on the end, then a rake of hopper wagons, and finally some oil tank wagons. Parts of both the c.1890 buildings can be seen, as can the contemporary footbridge. The hopper wagons almost certainly contained alumina (aluminium oxide) for use in the Invergordon aluminium smelter, opened by the British Aluminium Co Ltd in 1971, and the oil tank wagons probably contained diesel fuel for locomotives. Brake vans were phased out in the late 1970s. The first station at Pitlochry was opened in 1863 by the Inverness & Perth Junction Railway. The rapid growth of the town as a tourist centre led The Highland Railway to rebuild the station in about 1890, with the main building on the south-bound platform, and an elegant wooden block on the other platform. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference CT265
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