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.. The branch northwestward to 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 entrance to the station from the A9 trunk road.
The branch line to Crieff closed on 6 July 1964 due to the Beeching Axe.
Services
On weekdays and Saturdays there is a basic hourly service to southbound and northbound to Dundee, with one early morning service extending to Aberdeen and one evening peak service extending to Arbroath. On Sundays, a roughly two-hourly service is provided by additional calls on the Aberdeen to Glasgow services, with also two morning services to Edinburgh.
Gleneagles is also served by the daily Highland Chieftain service between Inverness and London King's Cross at 10:15 on Monday-Saturday and 12:17 on Sundays and the Caledonian Sleeper to London Euston each evening except Saturdays. Passengers intending to travel to Edinburgh should change at Dunblane or Stirling.
See also
Public transport in Perth and Kinross
References
Sources
External links Video footage of Gleneagles Railway station