Aberfoyle railway station

Aberfoyle
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
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
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 1951	Station closes
5 October 1959	closed for freight
Location

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.
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.

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.

External links

• Aberfoyle station on navigable O.S. map
• Railscot on the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway