Guay railway station,

Dunkeld Dunkeld (, sco, Dunkell, from gd, Dùn Chailleann, "fort of the Caledonians") is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The location of a historic cathedral, it lies on the north bank of the River Tay, opposite Birnam. Dunkeld lies close to t ...

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 ...

, Scotland, was located near the hamlet of Guay next to the

A9 road This is a list of roads designated A9. * A009 road (Argentina), a road in the northeast of Santa Fe Province * ''A9 highway (Australia)'' may refer to : ** A9 (Sydney), a road linking Windsor and Campbelltown ** A9 highway (South Australia), a l ...

and close to the

River Tay The River Tay ( gd, Tatha, ; probably from the conjectured Brythonic ''Tausa'', possibly meaning 'silent one' or 'strong one' or, simply, 'flowing') is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh-longest in Great Britain. The Tay originates ...

. The station stood on the old

Inverness and Perth Junction Railway The Inverness and Perth Junction Railway (I&PJR) was a railway company that built a line providing a more direct route between Inverness and the south for passengers and goods. Up to the time of its opening, the only route was a circuitous way th ...

main line and lay 21 mi 36 chains (34.5 km) from

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

and was some 95 miles (160 km) south of

Inverness Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histori ...

History

The station served the small hamlet in the parish of Dunkeld and

Dowally Dowally is a village and parish in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It lies north of Dunkeld on the A9 road. The village has a parish church dedicated to St. Anne, it was constructed in 1818 and replaced a previous church which had been construct ...

which once had its own water mill, school and smithy. It was opened by the

, later the

Highland Railway The Highland Railway (HR) was one of the smaller United Kingdom, British railways before the Railways Act 1921, operating north of Perth railway station, Scotland, Perth railway station in Scotland and serving the farthest north of Britain. Base ...

, in 1863 and closed in 1959. The station became part of the

London, Midland and Scottish Railway The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally u ...

prior to nationalisation. Little passenger traffic would have been generated from the hamlet however goods and agricultural traffic would once have been more significant with Guay and other farms nearby. By 1948 Guay had a very limited service with no Sunday stopping trains, one Monday only service and several that stopped only on request.

Infrastructure

The station stood on a slightly curved section of single track with a platform mainly built of stone. The ticket office and waiting room was a simple rectangular wooden building, oil lamps provided lighting and a store was present together with a double sided signal of the type used to stop trains if passengers were to be uplifted. Unusually the door of the goods shed was painted white in its lower section to prevent accidental damage during shunting operations. In 1900 the sidings ran into a goods yard, with its cattle loading dock, from the south with a signal box located overlooking the points which lead into the sidings and the goods shed. A building stood to the right of the goods yard entrance gates, a common location for a station master's house. Perth and Clackmannanshire, 050.12, Surveyed: 1899, Published: 1900
/ref> The station was host to a

LMS LMS may refer to: Science and technology * Labeled magnitude scale, a scaling technique * Learning management system, education software * Least mean squares filter, producing least mean square error * Leiomyosarcoma, a rare form of cancer * Lenz ...

caravan Caravan or caravans may refer to: Transport and travel *Caravan (travellers), a group of travellers journeying together **Caravanserai, a place where a caravan could stop *Camel train, a convoy using camels as pack animals *Convoy, a group of veh ...

from 1936 to 1939. A level crossing with gates still stands to the north of the station giving access to the

. The track through the station is now double track.

References

External links

The River Tay at Guay
{{s-end Disused railway stations in Perth and Kinross Former Highland Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959