Meigle railway station

Meigle
Location
Place	Meigle
Area	Perth and Kinross
Coordinates	56°35′19″N 3°09′30″W / 56.5885°N 3.1584°W / 56.5885; -3.1584Coordinates: 56°35′19″N 3°09′30″W / 56.5885°N 3.1584°W / 56.5885; -3.1584
Operations
Original company	Alyth Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	?
History
12 August 1861	Opened as Fullerton[1]
1 November 1876	Renamed as Meigle[1][2]
2 July 1951	Closed[2]
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Meigle railway station served the village of Meigle in the Scottish county of Perth and Kinross. The station was on the Alyth Railway from Alyth Junction on the Scottish Midland Junction Railway running between Perth and Arbroath.

History

Opened by the Alyth Railway on 12 August 1861 as Fullerton,^[1] and renamed to Meigle on 1 November 1876^[1][2] when the station on the same name on the Scottish Midland Junction Railway was renamed to Alyth Junction. It was absorbed into the Caledonian Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Railways Board on 2 July 1951.^[2]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Jordanstone Line and station closed		Alyth Railway Caledonian Railway		Alyth Junction Line and station closed

References

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Butt (1995), page 100
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Butt (1995), page 157

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• "RAILSCOT on Alyth Railway". http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Alyth_Railway/frame.htm. Retrieved 4 November 2011. 
• Station on navigable O.S. map