Campsie Glen
Location type
StationName and dates
Campsie Glen (1867-1951)Opened on the Blane Valley Railway.
Description
This was a single platform station on a single track line.
The platform was on the north side of the line and there was a siding at the east end, in a bay bay approached from the east.
The station has been obliterated but the station house, which was to the immediate north of the station, remains as a private house.
Campsie Glen Hospital was to the south.
Tags
Station footpathExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Lennoxtown [2nd] Lennoxtown Old Milton of Campsie Torrance Strathblane Balmore Kirkintilloch [2nd] Bardowie Kirkintilloch Basin Blanefield Back O Loch Halt Milngavie Summerston [1st] Lenzie Kirkintilloch [1st] | Lennox Castle Siding Lennoxmill Print Works Culloch Slap Lime Works Lennoxtown Shed Blane Valley Junction Tarfin Min [Alum, Coal, Limestone] Campsie Alum works Underwood Chemical Works Craigend Siding Boydsburn Coal Mine Pattie^s Bughts Quarry Glorat Lime Works Tourist/other Lennox Castle Hospital Woodhead House Lennox Castle |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/07/1867 | Blane Valley Railway Opened for passengers. Stations at Lennoxtown [2nd], Campsie Glen, Strathblane, Blanefield and Killearn [1st]. |
| 29/09/1951 | Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway
Forth and Clyde Junction Railway
Blane Valley Railway
Campsie Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) Aberfoyle to Kirkintilloch [2nd] (excluded) closed to passengers. Passenger stations closed at Aberfoyle, Gartmore, Buchlyvie, Balfron, Killearn, Dumgoyne, Blanefield, Strathblane, Campsie Glen, Lennoxtown [2nd], Milton of Campsie closed. |
| 05/10/1959 | Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Blane Valley Railway Campsie Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) Aberfoyle to Buchlyvie Junction to Gartness Junction to Campsie Glen (Lennox Castle Siding) (excluded) closed completely (although a final railtour ran on the 17th). Track not lifted until early 1960s. |
Books
 Forgotten Railways: Scotland |
