Aberfoyle railway station

Disused railway station in Aberfoyle, Stirling

56°10′39″N 4°22′59″W / 56.17755°N 4.38303°W / 56.17755; -4.38303Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyStrathendrick and Aberfoyle RailwayPre-groupingNorth British RailwayPost-groupingLondon and North Eastern RailwayKey dates1 August 1882[1]Station opens1 October 1951Station closes5 October 1959closed for freight

Aberfoyle railway station served the village of Aberfoyle in Scotland between 1882 and 1951.

History

The station was opened by the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway on 1 August 1882 as the terminus of a short branch line from Buchlyvie on the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway.[2][3]

The line was absorbed into the North British Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923.

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1935 to 1939.[4]

It became part of the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The line and station closed to passengers on 1 October 1951 and to freight on 5 October 1959.[2][5]

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Gartmore   North British Railway
Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway
   Terminus

The site today

The old station is now demolished, replaced by a parking space.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ a b Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
  3. ^ Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 542. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
  4. ^ McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 11. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
  5. ^ Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. pp. 6 & 15 (refs 0244 & 0703). ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
  6. ^ "Tour Aberfoyle". Tour Scotland. Retrieved 5 June 2020.

Further reading

  • Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Aberfoyle station on navigable O.S. map
  • Railscot on the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway