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Greenloaning Station

Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)

Site Name Greenloaning Station

Classification Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Greenloaning For Braco

Canmore ID 105436

Site Number NN80NW 41

NGR NN 8352 0773

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Ardoch
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NN80NW 41 8352 0773

(Location cited as NN 835 077). Greenloaning Station, opened 1848 by the Scottish Central Rly. Formerly a two-platform through station, the down-platform station building survives. This station is of the typical Scottish Central Rly. design, One-storey and attic on an L plan, with crow-stepped gables. The awning has been removed.

J R Hume 1977.

This intermediate station on the Stirling-Perth (main) line of the former Caledonian Rly. was also known as Greenloaning for Braco. It was opened by the Scottish Central Rly. on 22 May 1848 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 11 June 1956. The line itself remains in use.

R V J Butt 1995.

A former Caledonian Railway Company station, closed to passengers in 1956 which is visible on vertical air photographs (OS 83/134/004-5, flown 1983).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM/DE) July 1996.

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