Gleneagles railway station

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General information
Other names	Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Eagas
Location	Perth and Kinross
Coordinates	56.2750°N 3.7310°W / 56.2750; -3.7310
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	GLE
History
Original company	Scottish Central Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMSR
Key dates
14 March 1856	Opened as Crieff Junction
1 April 1912	Renamed Gleneagles

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

History

The station was opened by the Scottish Central Railway 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 Crieff 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 Caledonian Railway in 1919 following their takeover of the Scottish Central Railway. The Caledonian Railway built the nearby Gleneagles Hotel, which opened in 1925. The hotel served as the location for the G8 summit in 2005 and is a well-known golf 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

The southbound Highland Chieftain at Gleneagles

On weekdays and Saturdays there are 14 services to Glasgow Queen Street and two to Edinburgh Waverley southbound and 15 to Perth northbound; most of these continue to either Dundee or Aberdeen, though there are also a limited number of trains to/from Inverness via the Highland Main Line. 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 Highland Chieftain through service between Inverness and London King's Cross and the Caledonian Sleeper to London Euston each evening except Saturdays.

From 2018, services from the station will be increased as part of a timetable upgrade package backed by Transport Scotland. A regular hourly-interval each way service between Glasgow, Perth, and Dundee will be introduced that will stop here.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dunblane		London North Eastern Railway East Coast Main Line		Perth
Dunblane		Abellio ScotRail Highland Main Line		Perth
Dunblane		Caledonian Sleeper Highland Caledonian Sleeper		Perth
	Historical railways
Blackford Line open; Station closed		Caledonian Railway Scottish Central Railway		Auchterarder Line open; Station closed
Terminus		Caledonian Railway Crieff Junction Railway		Tullibardine Line and Station closed

Sources

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Marshall, Peter (1998). The Scottish Central Railway: Perth to Stirling. Usk, Monmouthshire: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-8536-1522-5.
• "Scottish Central Railway". RAILSCOT.
• "Crieff Junction Railway". RAILSCOT.

External links

• Video footage of Gleneagles Railway station