Tour Scotland Travel Video Diesel Passenger Train Arriving In Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland Spring travel video Blog of a 43136 diesel high speed passenger train arriving at the railway station on ancestry visit to Perth, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The train was travelling from Inverness in the Scottish Highlands to Edinburgh. The station, designed by Sir William Tite, won an architecture prize. It has seven platforms, five of which are " through " platforms. There are two main routes passing through the station - the Glasgow to Dundee and Aberdeen Line and the Highland Main Line, whilst there is now also a regular service to and from Edinburgh via the Fife Coast. Services to both Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley depart hourly, with some extras to Glasgow, as do those to Aberdeen via Dundee, Carnoustie and Arbroath. Trains to Inverness are somewhat irregular, but run at least once every two hours with eleven departures in all on weekdays and Saturdays and seven on Sundays. The daily, overnight, Caledonian Sleeper service between Inverness and London Euston and the daily London North Eastern Railway Highland Chieftain service between Inverness and London King's Cross, England, call at this station.

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