Aberfoyle railway station

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Aberfoyle
Aberfoyle station site geograph-3223972-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
Location of the former station (1997)
General information
Location Aberfoyle, Stirling
Scotland
Coordinates 56°10′39″N4°22′59″W / 56.17755°N 4.38303°W / 56.17755; -4.38303
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway
Pre-grouping North British Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 August 1882 [1] Station opens
1 October 1951Station closes
5 October 1959closed for freight

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

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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]

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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. 1 2 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. Archived from the original on 2 March 2005. Retrieved 5 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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