The
Highland Main Line through the village of
Blair Atholl first opened for traffic on
the 9th of September 1863.
The
story starts however in 1860 when the
prospectus for the Inverness to Perth
railway was issued under the title of
"The Inverness & Perth Junction
Railway" The bill was approved by
parliament on the 8th of March 1861 and
the contract to build the section through
Blair was awarded to Alexander Wilson
& Sons on the 17th January 1862
Blair
Atholl station, erected in 1869 as part
of an agreement with the Duke of Atholl,
was one of the few original buildings to
be constructed in stone.
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