Coupar Angus

Coupar Angus was a stop on the Scottish Midland Junction Railway in Perth & Kinross between Ardler and Woodside & Burrelton. It was also a terminus of the Blairgowrie branch.

Coupar Angus station [1]



Information
Type: Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Opened: 1837
Closed: 1967
Platforms: 2

The station was opened by the Dundee & Newtyle Railway in 1837. This station closed in 1847 but was re-opened the following year by the Scottish Midland Junction Railway. In the late 1850s a branch line was built as far as Blairgowrie. The branch line was closed in 1965, though passenger traffic had stopped in the mid-1950s.

Coupar Angus itself was closed in 1967. 

[1] "The Perth-Dundee-Montrose Section of the LMSR", The Railway Magazine p. 4