Innerpeffray railway station served the hamlets of

Innerpeffray Innerpeffray is a hamlet in Perthshire, Scotland, southeast of Crieff. It is located on a raised promontory among beech woodland above the River Earn. A fording point across the river can still be used, on what is the line of a Roman Road. The ...

and Millhills in the

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

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

Crieff and Methven Junction Railway The Crieff and Methven Junction Railway was a Scottish railway, opened in 1866, connecting Crieff with a branch line that ran from Methven to Perth. As a purely local concern, the line was dependent on local traffic, and when that declined i ...

, then by the Caledonian Railway, it 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 ...

during the Grouping of 1923. The station closed briefly on 1 January 1917, before reopening again on 1 June 1919. Passing on to the

Scottish Region of British Railways The Scottish Region (ScR) was one of the six regions created on British Railways (BR) and consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and ex-London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) lines in Scotland. It existed from the creation o ...

on nationalisation in 1948, it was finally closed to passenger and goods traffic by

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on 1 October 1951.

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Innerpeffray 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 1866 establishments in Scotland Former Caledonian Railway stations {{PerthKinross-railstation-stub