This was originally part of the Scottish Midland
Junction Railway, built to link the Scottish Central
Railway at Perth to the Aberdeen Railway at Forfar. It opened on 4
August 1848 and ran under varying guises until this section, north
east of Stanley Junction, was closed to passengers on 4 September
1967. A limited goods service continued between Perth and Forfar
until 5 June 1982, after which the line was closed completely. I
have tried, where possible, to place these caches at or near many
of the line's original features.
To the southwest, a couple of miles along the trackbed,
lies Stanley Junction, where this line would have branched off from
the current Perth to Inverness line. To the east, you can see that
the trackbed has been ploughed into the ground and there's no
further evidence of it until the bridge over the River Tay between
here and Cargill.