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Gleneagles railway station serves the town of Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross,

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History

The station was opened by the

on 14 March 1856 and was originally named ''Crieff Junction''. There was another station with the name of Crieff Junction to the north of this station which was only short-lived. The branch northwestward to was opened (by the Crieff Junction Railway company) on the same day. On 1 April 1912 it was renamed ''Gleneagles''. The station was rebuilt and the junction remodelled by the

in 1919 following their takeover of the

. The Caledonian Railway built the nearby Gleneagles Hotel, which opened in 1925. The hotel served as the location for the

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in 2005 and is a well-known

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resort; Gleneagles hosted the 2014 Ryder Cup. In anticipation of the 2014 Ryder Cup, Gleneagles railway station underwent a major refurbishment as part of a £7 million program to improve transport infrastructure in the area. Work was completed in April 2014, seeing the old station building regenerated with a lift, new platforms built upon the original ones, the fitting of Passenger information boards, additional regenerative paint work and a newly built car park built to connect with the new main road from the motorway. The branch line to Crieff closed on 6 July 1964 due to the Beeching Axe.

Services

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On weekdays and Saturdays there are 14 services to and two to southbound and 15 to northbound; most of these continue to either or , though there are also a limited number of trains to/from via the

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. The service frequency is however somewhat irregular, with large gaps in the timetable at certain times of day. Gleneagles is also served by the daily ''

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'' through service between Inverness and London King's Cross and the ''

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'' to

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each evening except Saturdays. From 2018, services from the station will be increased as part of a timetable upgrade package backed by

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. A regular hourly-interval each way service between Glasgow, Perth, and Dundee will be introduced that will stop here."‘Rail revolution’ means 200 more services and 20,000 more seats for Scots passengers"
''Transport Scotland'' press release 15 March 2016; Retrieved 18 August 2016

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Video footage of Gleneagles Railway station
Railway stations in Perth and Kinross Former Caledonian Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856 Railway stations served by ScotRail Railway stations served by Caledonian Sleeper Railway stations served by London North Eastern Railway James Miller railway stations 1856 establishments in Scotland {{PerthKinross-railstation-stub