Stirling railway station (Scotland)

• Thomas Freer Ash ca. 1851 ca. 1864
• Mr Irons 1868 - 1871
• John Samuel 1871 - 1899 ^[9] (formerly station master at Carstairs)
• James G. Samuel 1899 - 1907 ^[10] (son of the former station master)
• William Salmond 1907 ^[11] - 1912 (formerly station master at Forfar, afterwards station master at Dundee)
• James J. Brown 1912 ^[12] - 1924 (formerly station master at Blairgowrie)
• William McWhirter 1924 - 1933 ^[13] (formerly station master at Paisley)
• William Shaw 1934 ^[14] - 1941 (formerly station master at Jedburgh)
• David Valentine 1941 - 1948 (formerly station master at Stranraer)
• George Milne 1948 - 1956 ^[15]
• Robert Duncan from 1956

Description

Forthside Bridge (completed in 2009) passes over the station.

The station building was constructed in 1915 by James Miller, replacing the original 1848 structure designed by Andrew Heiton, ^[16] and is listed by Historic Environment Scotland as a Category A listed building. ^[17] Miller's design continues the circular spaces and flowing curves of his celebrated Wemyss Bay station.

The station houses a Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) from the British Transport Police. Currently two officers work from Stirling and cover Stirling, Alloa, Bridge of Allan, Camelon, Dunblane, Falkirk High, Falkirk Grahamston and Larbert.

The Stirling Area Command of the Forth Valley Division of Police Scotland cover the territorial area the Stirling NPT cover and will assist when the BTP officers are not available.

Services

A Abellio ScotRail Class 170 at Stirling

The station during electrification works

Trains operate north to Dunblane (three trains per hour), to Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen (hourly), Inverness (four trains per day), south west to Glasgow Queen Street (three trains per hour), and east to Edinburgh Waverley (half-hourly). ^[18] The service to Alloa and Dunfermline was withdrawn in October 1968, but the reopening of the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine rail link partially restored that service with an hourly service from Glasgow to Alloa as an extension of the Croy Line services. This utilises the existing DMU from Glasgow, which previously spent considerable time in one of the bay platforms at Stirling with engines idling, but now utilises the layover time to make the return trip to & from Alloa.

Most services are operated by ScotRail; with two trains per day southbound to London Kings Cross and one train per day northbound to Inverness operated by London North Eastern Railway (a second northbound service terminates at Stirling); and one train per day Sunday – Friday southbound to London Euston and northbound to Inverness operated by Caledonian Sleeper. The station has nine platforms, though they are ordered 2 to 10. The site of Platform 1 is now occupied by a car park; the platforms were not renumbered. The bay platforms at the north end of the station (Platforms 4 and 5) survive but are not available to passenger trains. The bay platforms at the south end of the station (Platforms 7 and 8) are not normally used for weekday services, but the first services of the day use trains that have been stabled there overnight and they have been fitted with passenger information displays.

A major Scottish area timetable recast in 2018 backed by Transport Scotland will see improved journey times from Stirling to both Edinburgh and Glasgow and more frequent services to Gleneagles, Dundee, Perth and Inverness. ^[19] The lines from Glasgow to Alloa and from Polmont to Dunblane are also due to be resignalled and electrified by 2018 as part of the rolling modernisation work associated with the Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme.^{[ needs update ]}

Summary

• 3tph to Glasgow Queen Street
• 1tph to Edinburgh Waverley
• 1tph to Alloa
• 1tph to Dunblane
• 2tpd to Kings Cross

Stirling Scottish Gaelic: Sruighlea [1]
The station frontage
General information
Location	Stirling, Stirling Scotland
Coordinates	56°07′12″N3°56′06″W / 56.1201°N 3.9351°W / 56.1201; -3.9351
Grid reference	NS797935
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	9
Other information
Station code	STG
Key dates
1848	Opened
1913	Rebuilt [2]
Passengers
2018/19	2.480 million
Interchange	0.374 million

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Falkirk Grahamston		London North Eastern Railway East Coast Main Line		Dunblane or Terminus
Larbert		ScotRail Edinburgh–Dunblane Line		Bridge of Allan
Dunblane		Caledonian Sleeper Highland Caledonian Sleeper		Falkirk Grahamston (Southbound only)
Edinburgh Waverley (Northbound only)		Caledonian Sleeper Highland Caledonian Sleeper		Dunblane
Larbert		ScotRail Croy Line		Alloa
		ScotRail Croy Line		Bridge of Allan
Glasgow Queen Street		ScotRail Glasgow to Aberdeen Line Highland Main Line		Gleneagles
	Historical railways
Bannockburn Line open; Station closed		Caledonian Railway Scottish Central Railway		Bridge of Allan Line and Station open
Terminus		North British Railway Stirling and Dunfermline Railway		Causewayhead (Stirling) Line open; station closed
Terminus		North British Railway Forth and Clyde Junction Railway		Gargunnock Line and station closed

References

1. Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN   978-0-9549866-9-8.
2. Railscot – Stirling
3. "STIRLING RAILWAY STATION INCLUDING PLATFORM BUILDINGS, FOOTBRIDGES, MIDDLE SIGNAL BOX, NORTH SIGNAL BOX AND SEMAPHORE SIGNALS". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
4. "Basic site details: Stirling station". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
5. "BR Motorail service pulls out of Stirling". The Herald. Glasgow. 8 February 1989. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
6. "Planning Application Summary 12/00157/LBC Replacement of public address system including installation of new speakers on and within station buildings, canopy etc". Stirling Council.
7. "Stirling station footbridge works set to start". Network Rail Media Centre. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
8. Holden, Michael (11 September 2019). "Stirling work! New bridge officially opens". RailAdvent. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
9. "Death or Stirling Stationmaster" . Dundee Evening Telegraph. Scotland. 19 October 1899. Retrieved 28 October 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
10. "Stirling. Presentation to late Stationmaster" . Falkirk Herald. Scotland. 21 August 1907. Retrieved 28 October 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
11. "Forfar Station Master promoted" . Forfar Herald. Scotland. 28 June 1907. Retrieved 28 October 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
12. "New Station Master for Stirling" . Falkirk Herald. Scotland. 18 May 1912. Retrieved 28 October 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
13. "Retiral of Stirling Station Master" . Perthshire Advertiser. Scotland. 23 September 1933. Retrieved 28 October 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
14. "New Station Master for Stirling" . Dundee Evening Telegraph. Scotland. 19 January 1934. Retrieved 28 October 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
15. "Stationmaster to Retire" . Kirriemuir Free Press and Angus Advertiser. Scotland. 2 August 1956. Retrieved 28 October 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
16. Andrew Heiton - Dictionary of Scottish Architects
17. "Stirling Railway Station including platform buildings, footbridges, middle signal boxes, north signal box and semaphore signals". Historic Environment Scotland. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
18. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Tables 229 & 230
19. "‘Rail revolution’ means 200 more services and 20,000 more seats for Scots passengers" Archived 20 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine Transport Scotland press release 15 March 2016, Retrieved 18 August 2016

• 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.
• McCutcheon, Bob (1999). Stirling. Tempus Publishing. ISBN   0-7524-1853-X.

External links

• Railscot - Photographs of Stirling
• Video footage of Stirling station.