Location type

Station

Names and dates

Crianlarich [WHR] (1894-1953)
Crianlarich Upper (1953-1967)
Crianlarich (1967-)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Station code: CNR National Rail ScotRail
Where: Stirling, Scotland
Opened on the West Highland Railway.
Open on the West Highland Line.

Description

This is an island platform station on the West Highland Railway where the lines to Oban (to the west) and Fort William divide. It is famous for its tearoom. Crianlarich Station Tearoom . The station is in Perthshire. Entry is by a subway at the north end of the station. The former signal box (closed 1985) is also at the north end of the station.

Alongside the tearoom, just to the south was the original station building. This was lost to a fire in 1962, but a small building, not dissimilar to the original, now exists. This was erected in 1999 replacing a rather ugly building of the intervening years.

There is a single road, single ended locomotive shed by the station, just to the south on the east side of the line and approached, by reversal, from the north. The shed and its sidings are a permanent way base.

There are sidings on the west side of the station, approached from the south. In the 2000s these were used for timber loading, the depot at Crianlarich Lower having closed. The sidings have not been used for regular traffic for some years.

The north end of the station was dominated by two water tanks, now removed.

At the north end of the station the spur to the Oban line runs off to the west and the Fort William line runs north over the Glenbruar Viaduct. The spur was only brought into regular use after the Second World War.

With the closure of the eastern half of the Callander and Oban Railway the station is the railhead for points east, such as Killin, for those wishing to take the train south to Glasgow.

Local

Before either the Callander and Oban Railway or West Highland Railway opened the Crianlarich Hotel was open, located at the road junction between the east-west Strathfillan road and the road south through Glen Falloch.

Crianlarich Hotel

Crianlarich Youth Hostel is on the east side of the station.

Crianlarich Youth Hostel

A diversion from the West Highland Way enters Crianlarich beside the station. Walking north west along the route reaches Tyndrum near Tyndrum Lower and walking south reaches Inverarnan, not far from Ardlui station.

Ben More (3,852 ft) and Stob Binnein (3,169 ft) are to the east.
Beinn Challum (3,363 ft) and Ben Challum South Peak (3,274) are to the north.

Tags

Station junction

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67

Facilities

Gaelic name: A^ Chrìon Làraich

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Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.