Signal Box, Dunkeld And Birnam Station is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 June 2013. Signal box. 1 related planning application.

Signal Box, Dunkeld And Birnam Station

WRENN ID
long-pinnacle-reed
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 June 2013
Type
Signal box
OS grid reference
NO 032 415
Coordinates
56.55593, -3.57591
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The signal box at Dunkeld and Birnam Station, built by the Highland Railway Company in 1919, is a two-storey structure made of brick with weather-boarding. The cabin, or operating room, features multi-pane glazing and is accessed by an extended timber forestair leading to a half-gabled entrance porch that projects at the upper level. There are two small windows in the locking room. The east elevation is entirely brick, with a small window located in the upper right and a tall wallhead stack positioned centrally, set behind the eaves. The forestair includes a trackside viewing platform extension.

Local climate

Signal Box, Dunkeld And Birnam Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 47 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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