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Killin Railway

Introduction

This line is closed.

Dates

/ /1883	Killin Railway Killin Railway authorised.
/ /1883	Killin Railway Contractor A and K Macdonald.
/ /1884	Killin Railway Contractor John Best takes over construction of the Dochart Viaduct and the line. The viaduct was completed in 1885.
01/04/1886	Killin Railway Killin Junction to Loch Tay opened; stations at Killin Junction (on the Callander and Oban Railway), Killin [2nd] and Loch Tay.
01/01/1923	Dundee and Newtyle Railway Arbroath and Forfar Railway Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Caledonian Railway Glasgow and South Western Railway Callander and Oban Railway Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway Highland Railway Cathcart District Railway Killin Railway Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Committee Brechin and Edzell District Railway Dornoch Light Railway Wick and Lybster Light Railway Grouped into London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
09/09/1939	Killin Railway Loch Tay station closed to passengers.
11/09/1939	Killin Railway Loch Tay to Killin [2nd] closed to all traffic (except Loch Tay Shed access).
/ /1953	Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway Line in use by North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board works trains for the Breadalbane Scheme. Various pipelines and several nearby power stations: Lednock Power Station, St Fillans Power Station, Dalchonzie Power Station. (Other works were closer to the Killin Railway.)
02/11/1964	Killin Railway Killin [2nd] to Killin Junction closed to freight.
27/09/1965	Killin Railway Killin [2nd] to Killin Junction closed to passengers and completely. Due to the rockfall in Glen Ogle in the early hours the Callander and Oban Railway was closed and the branch service had no trains to meet. The final train from Killin [2nd] was hauled by 80093 with three carriages and 13 wagons - although this was too heavy and the wagons had to be left temporarily while the carriages were taken to Killin Junction before the locomotive returned for the wagons. Once re-combined the train, unusually, ran through to Crianlarich and then south to Glasgow. Loch Tay Shed facilities closed.
28/09/1965	Callander and Oban Railway Killin Railway Due to the extent of the Glen Ogle Rockfall, Crianlarich Lower (excluded) to Callander (excluded) closed to all traffic.
01/11/1965	Killin Railway Killin [2nd] to Killin Junction officially closed to passengers.
/03/2004	Killin Railway Killin Community Council considers re-opening line between Loch Tay and Killin [2nd] as a narrow gauge tourist line.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Killin Junction

This was a three platform station with two platforms and a loop on the mainline, the up platform being an island the outer face of which chiefly served the Killin Railway and had a loop. Trains from the main line could access the branch platform line and loop from either end.
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Callander and Oban Railway

Killin Junction in 1990. The platform was partly clear and the foundations of buildings could be found easily. ...
Ewan Crawford //1990

Killin Junction showing the signal seen on approach from Luib. ...
Ian Moir (courtesy of Alastair Moir) //

The main station building at Killin Junction stood on the southbound main and Killin branch island platform. This shows the south elevation of the ...
Ian Moir (courtesy of Alastair Moir) //

Killin Junction's main building as viewed from footbridge. The portion of the footbridge between the two platforms was for public use, the station ...
Ian Moir (courtesy of Alastair Moir) //

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Acharn Siding

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Dochart Viaduct

This disused single track five arch concrete viaduct crosses the River Dochart in Killin, just south of the former Killin [2nd].
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The trackbed over the Dochart viaduct viewed towards Killin station. Deer fencing has been fitted on both sides as the walls are very low. The line ...
Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008

A lot more trees have grown since my hero Derek Cross photographed the Killin branch train on the Dochart Viaduct but it is still possible to see this ...
Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008

Crumbling refuge and parapet on Dochart Viaduct, now protected by a deer fence, with the view downstream towards Loch Tay. The refuges, built out ...
Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008

The famous viaduct across the River Dochart on the Killin branch. ...
John Gray 23/07/2008

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Killin [2nd]

This was a single platform station, the platform on the west (village) side of the runining line. There was a station building of a style found elsewhere on the Caledonian Railway system. The station was in the north of the village, just east of the Killin Hotel.
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The site of the small goods yard at Killin (on left), closed in 1965, looking north along the trackbed towards Loch Tay, on 13th March 2019. Now a ...
David Bosher 13/03/2019

My father's name was Ian Moir. He was the local parish minister for Balquhidder, Lochearnhead and Strathyre from 1949-61. This image of a Caley 0-4-4T ...
Ian Moir (courtesy of Alastair Moir) //

Killin station, showing coal wagons in the sidings. ...
Ian Moir (courtesy of Alastair Moir) //

The road approach to Killin station, showing the less often photographed side of the station building. ...
Ian Moir (courtesy of Alastair Moir) //

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Killin Viaduct

This is a disused three span girder on concrete piers bridge just north of the site of Killin [2nd] station crossing. Originally this was a nine span timber bridge due to the marshy conditions.
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View looking north-east from just past the site of Killin station towards Loch Tay, on 13th March 2019. Though Killin remained open until 1965, served ...
David Bosher 13/03/2019

A view back over the River Lochay bridge towards Killin station site and up the hill towards the Dochart viaduct. The goods yard entrance (now the ...
Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008

The railway bridge over the River Lochay looking towards Loch Tay. This bridge can just be seen in the 1963 picture No.6552 immediately beyond the ...
Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008

Although now closed for almost fifty years there are still several places on the Killin branch trackbed where the old sleepers can be seen, embedded ...
Mark Bartlett 04/07/2011

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Loch Tay

This was a single platform station with a rounding loop. It was the terminus of the Killin Railway located alongside a rail served pier at the west end of Loch Tay.
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The old station at Loch Tay became a home after closing to passengers on the outbreak of WWII. The railway remained open so that the Killin Branch ...
Mark Bartlett 04/11/2022

Loch Tay station, looking east towards the site of the engine shed in 1985.
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Bill Roberton //1985

A view along the trackbed towards Loch Tay. ...
John Gray 23/07/2008

43 years after final closure in 1965 several wooden sleepers still sit in the ash ballast trackbed that is now a footpath from Killin to Loch Tay. ...
Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008

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Loch Tay Shed

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2P 55204 on shed Loch Tay in 1961. ...
David Murray-Smith 20/03/1961

The locomotive shed at Loch Tay, photographed on the snowy afternoon of 12 April 1963, the occasion of the visit to the branch by the SLS/BLS ...
R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 12/04/1963

View from the Hydro power station (left) looking over the house located on the site of Loch Tay shed and towards Killin in February 2011. ...
Ewan Crawford /02/2011

BR standard class 4 no 80126 in the single road wooden locomotive shed at Loch Tay in February 1964. Passenger services on the branch were cut back to ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 01/02/1964

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