Bannockburn
Location type
StationName and dates
Bannockburn (1848-1950)Opened on the Scottish Central Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station south of Stirling and nearly a mile east of Bannockburn itself. The main station building was on the southbound platform. It was of a style characteristic of the line. The station was on an embankment.
There was a goods yard on the east side of the line, south of the station and approached from the south. The box was at the south end of the station too, on the west side of the line.
Platforms were lengthed during the station's lifetime and further goods sidings added, probably when the box was replaced in 1888.
The station closed in 1950, the box in 1955.
Nothing remains of the station.
Local
Bannockburn is famous for the Battle of Bannockburn for which there is a visitor's centre. The exact location of the battlefield is uncertain. Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre
Tags
StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
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Facilities
Gaelic name: Allt a^ Bhonnaich
| Nearby stations Plean Stirling East Stirling Throsk Manor Powis Blackgrange Causewayhead Cambus Alloa Junction Airth South Alloa Alloa Ferry Alloa [1st] Menstrie and Glenochil Alloa | Skeoch Mill Polmaise Junction Fallin Bridge Polmaise Nos 1 and 2 Colliery Bannockburn Colliery No 3 Polmaise Nos 3 and 4 Colliery Dunmore Colliery Bannockburn Colliery Pirnhall Colliery Dunmore Colliery Siding Norbord Factory Plean Junction Springkerse Siding Tourist/other St Ninians Level Crossing Bannockburn Visitor Centre |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/03/1848 | Scottish Central Railway Opened from Scottish Central Junction (Greenhill) to Stirling. Stations at Scottish Central Junction, Larbert, Bannockburn and Stirling. |
| / /1864 | Scottish Central Railway Authorisation to stop up Greenyards Level Crossing by Bannockburn. (Not done.) |
