Glen Falloch Platform
Location type
StationName and dates
Glen Falloch Platform (1946-1949)Where: Stirling, Scotland
Opened on the West Highland Railway.
Description
This was a single platform halt. Traces of the foundations of the platform remain. It was located south of Glen Falloch Viaduct. The halt was associated with the building of the Loch Sloy hydro scheme and it was served by unadvertised trains from Faslane Platform serving stations north such as the private Inveruglas (where Loch Sloy Power Station was built) and picking up prisoners-of-war and civilian staff. At the north end the train was able to run round and be stabled at Crianlarich until its next run south.
There may have been an earlier incarnation of this halt, a private halt in the 1920s.
Local
The Falls of Falloch are to the north east.
Tags
Station POW halt
| Nearby stations Ardlui Crianlarich Crianlarich Lower Tyndrum Lower Tyndrum [1st] Upper Tyndrum Inveruglas Loch Dochart [Private] Arrochar and Tarbet RNTR Arrochar Pier Dalmally Luib Bridge of Orchy Loch Awe Glen Douglas Halt | Glen Falloch Viaduct Stuc-ma Lead Furnace Easeonan Viaduct Clach na Bhreatuinn McGregors Landing Tourist/other Drovers Inn Inverarnan Basin Falls of Falloch Kaid Carn Ardlui Hotel Ardlui Pier Glen Falloch Scots Pines Beinn Chabhair Beinn Dubhchraig Ben Oss |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 26/08/1945 | West Highland Railway Faslane Platform opened, for moving prisoners of war to the halts at Inveruglas and Glen Falloch Platform in connection with the building of the Loch Sloy Hydro Electric scheme, Loch Sloy Power Station. |
| 10/04/1946 | West Highland Railway Glen Falloch Platform opened. (Alternative date.) |
