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Perth Railway Station

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We'd been to Perth a few times to change trains and at least once left the station for a wee dog walk so very overdue for its official tick ✓ off our list! Rudy has been on fourteen trains to & from Perth! The first was on the 28th of March 2019 and most recently on the 17th of March 2025.

170406 at Perth.
Rudy at Perth Station.
Photos from March 2024.
Perth is an unusual station, it's a major junction with over 130 trains per day running to all of Scotland's big cities, Edinburgh, Inverness, Glasgow & Aberdeen. Up to a million passengers and 100,000 interchanges use the station each year but it's always felt empty & ghostly quiet when we've changed trains here! The station was first opened in 1848 and grew to become possibly the busiest junction station in Scotland. As routes were closed down in the 1960s the station remained important but spread out over a larger footprint than needed. The original 1848 buildings still stand but with a 1911 train shed covering the original exterior façade and the grandest waiting rooms relegated to staff only, it's now the 1880s easterly addition that sees most use. It's at the most impressive top-end for Category B Listed with even the newer platforms retaining extensive canopies and covered footbridge.

Rudy's Adventures at Perth

Perth station walks and places to visit.

Perth Photos
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HST507 at Perth.
HST507 at Perth.
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A small black terrier dog at Perth Station.
Rudy at Perth Station.
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Perth railway station is a railway station located in the city of Perth, Scotland, on both the Glasgow to Dundee line and the Highland Main Line. It is managed by ScotRail, who provide almost all of the services (along with LNER and the Caledonian Sleeper).

It is sited 151 miles 25 chains (243.5 km) from Carlisle, measured via Stirling, Cumbernauld and Motherwell, and approximately 47 miles 68 chains (77 km) from Ladybank (thus approximately 86 miles 77 chains (140 km) from Edinburgh Waverley via Kirkcaldy and Inverkeithing).

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