Falls of Cruachan
Location type
StationNames and dates
Falls of Cruachan Platform (1893-1965)Falls of Cruachan (1988-)
Station code: FOC National Rail ScotRail
Where: Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Opened on the Callander and Oban Railway.
Open on the West Highland Line.
Description
This is a small single platform near the Falls of Cruachan and Cruachan Hydro Electric Scheme visitor's centre.
The platform is on the south side of the line and set above Loch Awe on the hillside in the area of line protected by rockfall signals.
The station was closed between 1965 and 1988, yet somehow the station waiting room survived. It still stood at re-opening, out of use, but no longer exists having been replaced with a modern shelter.
Local
Cruachan Visitors Centre
Loch Awe Railway Cottage
Tags
Station haltExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
Facilities
Gaelic name: Eas Chruachain
| Nearby stations Loch Awe Dalmally Taynuilt Ach-na-Cloich Connel Ferry North Connel Barcaldine Halt Benderloch Creagan Oban Oban Ticket Platform Glen Falloch Platform Tyndrum Lower Tyndrum [1st] Bridge of Orchy | Falls of Cruachan Viaduct Awe Crossing Cruachan Dam Tourist/other Cruachan Power Station Visitor Centre Pass of Brander Stone Signals Meall Cuanail Loch Awe [Loch] Stob Garbh Ben Cruachan Drochaid Ghlas Stob Dearg Stob Diamh Loch Awe Hotel Loch Awe Pier Cladich Pier |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| /07/1908 | Callander and Oban Railway Falls of Cruachan Halt appears in timetable. |
