Aberfoyle railway station served the village of Aberfoyle in Scotland between 1882 and 1951.
Aberfoyle | |
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![]() Location of the former station (1997) | |
General information | |
Location | Aberfoyle, Stirling Scotland |
Coordinates | 56°10′39″N 4°22′59″W / 56.17755°N 4.38303°W |
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 |
History
editThe 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 | ||
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Gartmore | North British Railway Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway |
Terminus |
The site today
editThe old station is now demolished, replaced by a parking space.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. pp. 6 & 15 (refs 0244 & 0703). ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
- ^ "Tour Aberfoyle". Tour Scotland. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
Further reading
edit- 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.