Falls of Cruachan

Location type

Station

Names 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 halt

External links

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

Facilities

Gaelic name: Eas Chruachain




Chronology Dates

  /07/1908Callander and Oban Railway
Falls of Cruachan Halt appears in timetable.

News items

24/12/2022Update: Oban line to fully reopen on December 27 [Network Rail]
20/12/2022Landslides and strong winds cause widespread disruption across Highlands and Islands [Press and Journal]
20/12/2022Argyll road and railway hit by 100-tonne landslip [BBC News]
20/12/2022Work begins to clear landslip at Cruachan [Network Rail]
19/12/2022Argyll landslip near Falls of Cruachan closes Oban rail line and A85 road with 84-mile diversion in place [STV]
19/12/2022Suspected landslip shuts road and rail line [BBC News]
18/06/2021Plans to expand Scotland's 'hollow mountain' hydro power plant outlined to minister [Scotsman]
02/04/2014Scots trains 'ran despite landslip risk' [Scotsman]
02/04/2012Posthumous honour for ScotRail station adopter [Railscot]
14/07/2011Rock fall calls after Argyll train derailment [BBC News]

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North of Scotland v. 15 (Regional railway history series)

Birth and Death of a Highland Railway: Ballachulish Line

Caledonian Railway

Caledonian Routes 3: Stirling to Crianlarich - DVD - Oakwood Press

Callander & Oban Railway Through Time

Callander and Oban Railway (Library of Railway History)

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: Callander and Oban Railway v. 4

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: Callander and Oban Railway v. 4

Iron Road to the Isles: A Travellers and Tourist Guide to the West Highland Lines

Iron Roads to the Isles: A Travellers and Tourists Souvenir Guide to the West Highland Lines

Oban 1898: Argyllshire Sheet 98.07 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Argyllshire)

On West Highland Lines

Railway World Special: West Highland Lines

Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong

Scottish Central Railway (Oakwood Library of Railway History)

The Birth and Death of a Highland Railway: Ballachulish Line

The Caledonian, Scotland's Imperial Railway: A History

Trossachs and West Highlands: Exploring the Lost Railways (Local History Series)

Walks from the West Highland Railway (Cicerone Guide)