Balgowan railway station served the village of Balgowan, in the

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county of

Perth and Kinross Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland and S ...

History

Opened on 21 May 1866 by the

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and then later absorbed by the Caledonian Railway, it became part of the

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during the

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of 1923. Passing on to the

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in 1948, the station was closed to passenger traffic by the British Railways Board on 1 October 1951.

References

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Station on navigable O.S. map

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Disused railway stations in Perth and Kinross Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1951 Former Caledonian Railway stations {{PerthKinross-railstation-stub