Ballat Crossing
Location type
Name and dates
Ballat Crossing (1856-1959)Opened on the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway.
Description
This was a signalled level crossing with home and distance signals. A crossing keeper's cottage was on the east side of the line.
Since closure the road has been re-aligned. The level crossing was only very slightly to the south of the well known very tight bend here. The cottage has not survived.
Tags
Level crossing| Nearby stations Balfron Gartness Buchlyvie Killearn Drymen Dumgoyne Gartmore Port of Menteith Duntreath Halt Aberfoyle Blanefield Caldarvan Ladylands Platform Strathblane Fairfields Siding | Drumquharn Tile Works Balwill Siding Gartness Junction Gartness Viaduct Altwhir Viaduct Buchlyvie Junction Drymen Viaduct Blackburn Siding Mye Gravel Pit Tourist/other Buchanan Monument Gartness Castle Ballikinrain Castle Killearn Hospital Killearn House Dalnair House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos) |
