Publication Account

Date 2013

Event ID 967129

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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STATIONS ON THE DUNDEE

AND PERTH RAILWAY

The flat Carse of Gowrie was bisected in 1847 by the Dundee and Perth Railway, taking a direct route rather than conveniencing the various local

communities. So the stations became little nuclei in their own right, starting with signalman’s houses at level crossings, to observe road and rail traffic, modelled on toll houses and similar to those on the Dundee and Arbroath railway and then a signal box of c1890.

From Inchture station a branch line in 1849 connected the two miles to the actual Inchture village at Crossgates, and beyond to a brickworks. A

similar branch from Errol to Inchmichael got as far as forming a deep cutting that is now taken by a road because track was never laid there.

M Watsin, 2013