Crieff railway station

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Crieff railway station was in Crieff, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It was a junction where three railways met: the Crieff Junction Railway, the Crieff & Methven Railway, and the Comrie, St Fillans & Lochearnhead Railway.

The first Crieff terminus opened in 1856 as the end of the line from Crieff Junction and was later rebuilt as Gleneagles Station. In 1866, a new line to Methven connected Crieff to Perth. A larger station was built just north of the old one for the Caledonian Railway, with two platforms and three tracks; the middle track was for goods. There were two signal boxes at the ends of the station.

Passenger trains to Perth and on to Balquidder via Comrie stopped in 1951, but the station stayed open for goods and for the Comrie and Gleneagles routes for a while.

The station closed to passengers on 6 July 1964 when the Comrie and Gleneagles lines closed. Freight continued on the Almond Valley line until September 1967, and the goods yard stayed in use until then.

Today the site is Crieff Community Hospital, and the former goods yard is the Crieff Medical Centre. West of the station was a shallow cutting that was filled in during the 1980s to create a large car park and a nearby supermarket.