Perth railway station

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The station has seven active platforms, but they are split into two distinct sections: There was once an extensive goods yard at Perth, along with an engine shed and carriage sidings; only a small engineers' depot remains in the greatly downsized yard.

The station was opened as Perth General Station by the Scottish Central Railway (SCR) in 1848, to a design by William Tite. Originally the terminus of the SCR main line from Greenhill Junction, near Glasgow, it soon became a junction of some importance; the arrival of the Dundee and Perth Railway from , following the completion of Tay Viaduct, a bridge across the River Tay, the Edinburgh and Northern Railway (E&NR) from on the Fife coast and the Scottish Midland Junction Railway (SMJR) from within months. Subsequent construction by the Perth and Dunkeld Railway (P&DR) and the Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway added further lines into/out of the city, with the former becoming part of…