Balmore
Location type
StationName and dates
Balmore (1886-1951)Opened on the Kelvin Valley Railway.
Description
This was a single platform station. The platform was on the north side of the line. It was a minimal station. There was a siding, approached from the west, on the south side of the line with a loading bank. To the east Glenorchard Road crossed over the line and to the west the line crossed over what is now the A807. A second siding was added around 1900.
To the east of the station a siding turned north to serve Balmore Colliery, approach was from the west.
The station closed to passengers in 1951 and remained open for goods and minerals. The line eastwards from the Balmore Colliery siding officially closed in 1959 (although it remained in use in 1960). The line closed altogether in 1961.
A station cottage remains to the west of the former station. Nothing remains of the station itself, the site now being housing. The embankment of the former line stretches out noticeably to the west from the now removed bridge over the A807.
Tags
StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
08/01/2019
| Nearby stations Bardowie Torrance Summerston [1st] Bishopbriggs Milngavie Bennie Railplane Lennoxtown [2nd] Gilshochill Lennoxtown Old Possil North Lochburn Possilpark and Parkhouse Possilpark (Private) Summerston Ashfield | Balmore Colliery Balmore Colliery Bardowie Tip Cadder Pit No 17 Balgrochan Sand Siding Cadder Pit No 2 Jellyhill Pit Cadder Pit No 15 Blairskaith Limekiln Blairskaith Limestone Mine Cadder Pit No 9 High Moss Pit Brickworks Tourist/other Cawder House Bardowie Loch |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 05/10/1959 | Kelvin Valley Railway Torrance to Balmore (excluded) closed to freight, although subsequently used by tour train in 1960. |
| 31/07/1961 | Kelvin Valley Railway Balmore to Maryhill East Junction closed to freight, but retained for a short period for coal to Summerston [1st]. |
Books
 An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways |  Forgotten Railways: Scotland |
