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This was a two platform station. The station building on the down platform was a typical later Callander and Oban Railway timber building but with a canopy along the length of the building.

The station opened in 1873 when the line was extended from Glenoglehead to Tyndrum [1st]. For the opening interconnecting coaches were organised such as one which ran down Glen Falloch to Ardlui Pier and Arrochar Pier to pick up steamer traffic.

There was a goods yard, approached from the east. The signal box, 1890, was at the east end of the westbound platform.

The loop was lifted around 1921, the up platform line being removed, largely due to the opening of a loop further west at Crianlarich Junction [CandO] in 1897. The box closed, replaced with a ground frame to the east.

After closure of the line east from Crianlarich to Callander Dreadnought and Dunblane in 1965 (due to the Glen Ogle Rockfall), the station and goods yard became a timber depot. The depot was called Lower Crianlarich from 1967. (Goods continued briefly to Luib until 1966.) The loop was re-installed operated by a ground frame. A buffer was placed on the line east of the station, behind Inverardran Cottage just to the east of the bowstring bridge over the Allt Coire Ardrain (surprisingly, given the need to maintain the bridge!).

The yard has closed and line cut back to a short stub at Lower Crianlarich Junction in 1993. The site is now part car park, partly built upon and the Crianlarich community garden. The bridge over the Allt Coire Ardrain is still there, the timber decking totally rotten and fenced off.

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