Archaeology Notes

Event ID 682891

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/682891

NO13NW 22 10104 38358.

(Location cited as NO 101 383). Murthly Station, opened 1856 by the Perth and Dunkeld Rly. A two-platform through station with one-storey and attic brick offices on the up platform. There is a signal box of standard Highland Rly pattern, and a lattice girder footbridge.

J R Hume 1977.

This intermediate station on the Perth (Stanley Junction) - Inverness main line of the former Highland Rly. was opened by the Scottish Midland Junction (Perth and Dunkeld) Rly on 7 April 1856 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 3 May 1965. The line itself remains in use.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 September 2000.

G Daniels and L Dench 1980; R V J Butt 1995.

Note that this site is linked to Historic Buildings List item no. 43644, which is a Grade 'A' listed signal box, centred on grid reference NO 1010 3836.