Friends of Blair Atholl Station

Blair Atholl Railway Station, in the Perthshire Highlands of Scotland, was opened in 1863, and one of the first visitors was Queen Victoria.  It was a very busy station in the early days and served as a watering station for the steam engines as well as housing the banking engines used to help trains over the high Drumochter Pass, just to the north.
The Friends of Blair Atholl Station are a group of mainly local people who work with ScotRail as volunteers, helping to keep the station clean and tidy as well as providing and tending the floral displays on the platforms.  The Old Stationhouse, which used to have a private waiting room for the Duke of Atholl, is now disused and in need of a new life.  We hope to work with the community and businesses to re-open the building and give it that second life.  Some of our videos might tell you more about that and the other things we do.