This railway is closed. A short section remains in place to the north of Dunblane station for use as a reversing spur, often with a track maintenance machine parked in it. The line was double track to Doune from Dunblane having been originally single track. Before closure the line reverted to single track.
/ /1846 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Act receives Royal assent. (Not built at this time.) |
/ /1856 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Act receives Royal assent. |
/ /1858 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Stone engine shed with two roads opened, Callander Shed. The 40ft turntable was in the station. Sub-shed of Stirling Shed [CR] (Burghmuir). |
01/07/1858 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Line opened from Dunblane to Callander [1st]. Stations opened at Doune and Callander [1st]. |
/ /1860 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway The Caledonian Railway installs a 50ft turntable on the entry sidings to Callander Shed. |
/ /1865 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander RailwayScottish Central Railway Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway absorbed by Scottish Central Railway. |
/ /1865 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway North British Railway gains running powers to Callander [1st] during amalgations of the year. |
31/08/1893 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Drumvaich Crossing opened between Doune and Callander and Oban Junction. |
/ /1896 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Authorisation to enlarge and rebuild Doune station. |
/ /1899 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Doubling authorised. (Double track only reached Doune from Dunblane.) |
/ /1902 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Further alteration to Doune station authorised. |
/ /1902 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Extension of time to double line granted. |
09/06/1902 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Doubled section between Dunblane and Doune opened. West and East signal boxes at Doune and Dunblane North box at Dunblane Junction replaced. Doune rebuilt as an island platform station. |
02/11/1902 | Callander and Oban Railway Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Callander Dreadnought to Callander and Oban Junction doubled. Callander and Oban Junction signal box replaced and junction remodelled with headshunt and loop around box. |
/ /1907 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Extension of time for doubling until 06/08/1910. |
/ /1924 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Callander Shed closed but remained standing. |
10/04/1938 | Callander and Oban Railway Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Callander and Oban Junction closed. The double track line to Callander Dreadnought becomes two single track lines with the former westbound line becoming access from Callander Dreadnought to Callander [1st] (goods) via the headshunt at the site of Callander and Oban Junction. |
30/10/1955 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Doune to Dunblane singled. Between Dunblane and Springbank Mill Siding the westbound line was lifted, and the line slewed at Stockbridge to the west with the eastbound line lifted between there and Doune. |
07/06/1965 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Callander Dreadnought to Dunblane Springbank Mill Siding, excluded, closed to freight. Callander Dreadnought to Callander [1st] via the headshunt at the former Callander and Oban Junction closed to goods. |
01/11/1965 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Callander Dreadnought to Dunblane (Springbank Mill Siding, excluded) closed to passengers and completely. Doune station closed. |
30/07/1971 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Springbank Mill Siding to Dunblane Junction (excluded) closed. A short length from the junction was retained as a permanent way siding. |
/ /1974 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Callander Shed still stood. The site was cleared for housing. |
/ /1988 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Re-ballasting beyond the end of the siding at Dunblane Junction, possibly as a stabling siding. Track laying was not proceeded with. |
This line ran from by the Allan Water in Dunblane to cross slightly higher ground to the west to Doune and then followed the north of the River Teith to reach the east end of Callander.
These locations are along the line.
This is a three platform station. Dunblane is both a through station for services running north to Perth and a terminus for local services from Glasgow Queen Street High Level, Edinburgh Waverley and Newcraighall.
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This junction was immediately north of Dunblane station. Here the Scottish Central Railway was met by the Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway. The branch was to be extended by the Callander and Oban Railway to Oban.
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This shed was located in the 'V' of the junction between the Scottish Central Railway and the Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway from which it branched. This was a one track single ended shed approached from the south. It was re-located.
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This siding served Springbank Mill, Dunblane. The siding was served from the east.
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This was the intermediate station on the line between Dunblane and Callander [1st]. The station was in the north west of the village.
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This goods siding was east of Callander and Oban Junction, in the east of Callander. The siding was on the north side of the line, approached from the west (over the Bridge of Keltie Viaduct). There was a loading bank and a saw mill.
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This was the junction between the Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway and the Callander and Oban Railway which extended it to Oban. Callander [1st] was left on a short branch being replaced by Callander (Dreadnought) further west. The original signal box was to the north of the junction at the point of division of the lines.
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This was a terminus, the end of the line from Dunblane. It was left on a short branch when the line was extended west to, ultimately, Oban through a new Callander Dreadnought station to the west.
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