Gartmore
Location type
StationName and dates
Gartmore (1882-1950)Opened on the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway.
Description
This was a single platform station with a small building. There was a passing loop which served a loading bank. The station was built to serve Gartmore House to the south. The platform was on the east side of the line with the signal box on the loading bank on the west side.
The station closed to passengers in 1950 and the line closed in 1959.
Little remains of the station although there is a railway cottage in use as a house. Just to the south the A81, when realigned, was made to cross the railway by means of a large concrete bridge. The bridge was built to cross a double track line.
Tags
Station footpathAliases
DrumfechanExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Aberfoyle Buchlyvie Port of Menteith Balfron Ladylands Platform Fairfields Siding Gartness Callander (Dreadnought) Callander [1st] Callander Ticket Platform Kippen Killearn Drymen Craig-na-Cailleach Platform Dumgoyne | Forth Viaduct [Gartmore] Aberfoyle Shed Barbadoes Siding Kelty Water Bridge Aberfoyle Quarries Buchlyvie Junction Balwill Siding Mye Gravel Pit Mye Siding Tourist/other Gartmore House Inch Talla Castle Lake of Menteith Inchmahome Priory Port of Menteith Pier Knockinshannock Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
GeordieThe station was used for the film 'Geordie' in September 1954 when the station doubled as 'Drumfechan'. IMDB - Geordie (1954) PerthshireThis was the southernmost station in Perthshire. |
Chronology Dates
| 01/10/1882 | Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway Line opened for passengers and freight from Dumgoyne to Gartness Junction and Buchlyvie Junction to Aberfoyle. Stations at Killearn, Gartmore and Aberfoyle. |
| 29/09/1951 | Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway
Forth and Clyde Junction Railway
Blane Valley Railway
Campsie Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) Aberfoyle to Kirkintilloch [2nd] (excluded) closed to passengers. Passenger stations closed at Aberfoyle, Gartmore, Buchlyvie, Balfron, Killearn, Dumgoyne, Blanefield, Strathblane, Campsie Glen, Lennoxtown [2nd], Milton of Campsie closed. |
