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Meigle railway station

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Place
  
Meigle

Pre-grouping
  
Caledonian Railway

12 August 1861
  
Opened as Fullerton

Area
  
Perth and Kinross

Platforms
  
?

Original company
  
Alyth Railway

Post-grouping
  
London, Midland and Scottish Railway

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, and renamed to Meigle on 1 November 1876 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 British Railways on 2 July 1951.

References

Meigle railway station Wikipedia