Perth To Crieff Railway

NO02SW 87 0000 2308 to 0499 2458

Dismantled Railway [NAT] (at NO 025 243)

OS 1:10,000 map, 1987.

The Perth to Crieff railway, from Almond Valley Junction, Perth (NO 101 254) to Crieff, was opened on the first of January 1858 by the Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway Company and was closed to regular passenger traffic on 27 September 1937 and to goods traffic on 25 January 1965.

G Daniels and L Dench 1980; J Thomas and D Turnock 1989.

(This railway line cross the map sheet in Tibbermore and Methven parishes). Between the western edge of the map-sheet (NO 0000 2308) and the former crossing keeper's cottage at Moss-side (NO 0164 2414; NO 02SW 88), the line of the railway takes the form of a low embankment which skirts the edge of boggy ground along the N edge of Methven Moss. To the E of the public road which passes Moss-side, and between it and the Methven Junction Station (NO 0281 2436; NO 02SW 37), parts of the embankment have either been removed and the rest is largely ploughed-out. To the E of Methven Junction Station (NO02SW 37), the line of the railway is discernible as a low mound in an arable field as far NO 0330 2427; between here and Pow Bridge (NO 0499 2458; NO02SW79), at the eastern edge of the map sheet, the line survives as a low embankment on the N side of the Pow Water. The site of Tibbermore Station (NO02SW 92) is situated immediately W of Pow Bridge.

Visited by RCAHMS (RJCM, JRS), 7 November 1995.