Pittenzie Halt railway station on the

Crieff Junction Railway The Crieff Junction Railway was opened in 1856 to link the town of Crieff to the main line railway network in Scotland, at a junction at the present day station (then called Crieff Junction). In the second half of the twentieth century railway ...

served the small hamlet of Pittachar, near Crieff in Scotland. The line was built in 1856 for the

, which connected Crieff with the

Scottish Central Railway The Scottish Central Railway was formed in 1845 to link Perth and Stirling to Central Scotland, by building a railway line to join the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway near Castlecary. The line opened in 1848 including a branch to South Alloa. The ...

at Crieff Junction (now Gleneagles). The CJR was absorbed by the Caledonian Railway in 1865, which itself became part of the

London, Midland and Scottish 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 ...

in 1923. The line and the station were closed as part of the

Beeching closures The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the M ...

in 1964.

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* Disused railway stations in Perth and Kinross Beeching closures in Scotland Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1958 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 Railway stations opened by British Rail Crieff {{PerthKinross-railstation-stub