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Pitlochry Railway Station

Station buildings on Platform 2. Trains to north:-

Pitlochry Railway Station

The station buildings on the east side (Platform 1) house a very good charity second hand bookshop.

Tracks looking south from Platform 1:-

Tracks at Pitlochry Railway Station

For more views of the station see here.

War Grave, Holy Trinity Church, Pitlochry

I must have passed this church building, of the Scottish Episcopal Church, twenty or so times at least. It wasn’t till October 2017 I noticed the Commonwealth War Graves sign on the gate.

Its grounds are lovely with a burn running through them.

Burn in Churchyard, Holy Trinity Church, Pitlochry

It contained one war grave quite near the entrance and close to the burn. Bombardier J Ward, Royal Garrison Artillery, 7/1/1915, aged 35:-

War Grave, Holy Trinity Church, Pitlochry

Here’s a video of the church and its grounds:-

Pitlochry War Memorial

This is in the form of a Celtic Cross and stands in a small gardened area just off the main street.

Pitlochry War Memorial

Reverse view looking on to Main Street:-

Pitlochry War Memorial Reverse View

The Names on the Memorial include a staff nurse, only given as Staff Nurse Macbeth:-

Pitlochry War Memorial Names

A new addition to the small memorial garden, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Great War, is a pair of memorial benches of which I photographed one. Both benches have inlays of soldiers, barbed wire and stylised poppies.

Pitlochry War Memorial Bench

Pitlochry, Pitlochry Dam, Loch Faskally, River Tummel

The River Tummel is dammed where it passes Pitlochry in the county of Perth and Kinross and the site houses a hydro-electric power station. The dam created the man-made reservoir Loch Faskally and the buildings are in the deco style.

Pitlochry Dam as seen from access road from the town centre:-

Pitlochry Dam

Loch Faskally from Pitlochry Dam (looking north-west):-

Loch Faskally from Pitlochry Dam

River Tummel (looking south-east from Pitlochry Dam.) Pitlochry Festival Theatre visible to the right:-
View South from Pitlochry Dam

Cartouche and window of building at Pitlochry Dam:-

Pitlochry Dam Cartouche

There is a fish ladder up the west side of the dam to allow salmon access up to their spawning grounds. When I was last there you could see the fish directly (if one was in the particular step with the window.) Now it seems to be a closed-circuit TV system. The photo below is of the upper platfrom: the fish ladder is to the right here:-

Pitlochry Dam Upper Pathway

Pitlochry Dam buildings from east side. Part of the fish ladder to the right:-
Pitlochry Dam Buildings

Pitlochry Dam Generator Building from south:-
Pitlochry Dam Generator Building

Pitlochry Dam + Generator Building:-
Pitlochry Dam + Generator Building

Pitlochry Dam Building from South:-
Pitlochry Dam Building from South

Pitlochry Dam window and cartouche from west side of the river bank:-
Pitlochry Dam Window and Cartouche

This Pitlochry shop has an Art Deco roof-line; good “stepping”:-
Pitlochry Art Deco Shop Roof-line

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