RAILSCOT | Drishaig Junction

Drishaig Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Drishaig Junction (1885-1916)

Opened on the Callander and Oban Railway.
Opened on the Ben Cruachan Quarries Branch (Callander and Oban Railway).

Description

This was the junction for the Ben Cruachan Granite Quarries. The branch opened in 1885, five years after the main line. Trains from the branch ran on to Loch Awe to use the goods yard there as exchange sidings. The junction was released using the tablet for the Loch Awe to Dalmally section on which the junction lay. The junction closed in 1916.

The junction is difficult to locate today, but the trackbed a little way down the branch can be found. From there the route to the quarries may be walked.

Aliases

Cruachan Quarry Ground Frame

Nearby stations Loch Awe Dalmally Falls of Cruachan Taynuilt Ach-na-Cloich Tyndrum Lower Tyndrum [1st] Glen Falloch Platform Bridge of Orchy Upper Tyndrum Barcaldine Halt Connel Ferry Ardlui North Connel Creagan	Orchy Viaduct Ben Cruachan Quarry Quarry Quarry Dalmally Shed Tourist/other Kilchurn Castle Kilchurn Castle Level Crossing Loch Awe Pier Loch Awe Hotel Duncan Ban MacIntyre Monument [Dalmally] Stob Garbh Loch Awe [Loch] Sron an Isean Stob Diamh Beinn Eunaich
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

19/06/1885	Callander and Oban Railway Drishaig Junction installed for the branch to Ben Cruachan Quarry and the zig-zag lines.
/05/1916	Callander and Oban Railway Ben Cruachan Quarry branch closed and Drishaig Junction taken out.