Glen Falloch Platform

Location type

Station

Name 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


Chronology Dates

26/08/1945West 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.
10/04/1946West Highland Railway
Glen Falloch Platform opened. (Alternative date.)

Books

All Stations to Mallaig!: West Highland Line Since Nationalisation
Argyll and the Highlands Last Days of Steam

Argyll and the Highlands' Lost Railways

Ben Nevis and Fort William, The Mamores and The Grey Corries, Kinlochleven and Spean Bridge (OS Explorer Map)

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: West Highland Railway v. 1

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: West Highland Railway v. 1

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

Mountain Moor and Loch on the Route of the West Highland Railway

On West Highland Lines

Railway World Special: West Highland Lines

Rannan Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean =: The West Highland Line

Road To The Isles Dvd: Part One The West Highland Line Between Crianlarich to Fort William, From the Drivers Cab Of A Class 37, With The Caledonian Sleeper
The Mallaig Railway: The West Highland Extension 1897-1901 (RCAHMS Broadsheet)
The New Railway: The Earliest Years of the West Highland Line

The Story of the West Highland

The Story of the West Highland: The 1940s LNER Guide to the Line

The West Highland Railway

The West Highland Railway (Railways of the Scottish Highlands)

The West Highland Railway 120 Years

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

Victorian Travel on the West Highland Line: By Mountain, Moor and Loch in 1894

Walks from the West Highland Railway (Cicerone Guide)

West Highland Line: Great Railway Journeys Through Time

West Highland Railway
West Highland Railway (History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands v. 1): West Highland Railway v. 1
West Highland Railway: Plans, Poltics and People