Glenochil Yeast

Location type

Works

Name and dates

Glenochil Yeast

Served by the Alva Railway.

Description

The Glenochil Yeast depot south of Menstrie was rail served. The works was to the south east of the former Menstrie station and had sidings approached from the west on the the south side of the Alva Railway.

This traffic (along with traffic to the Cambus Distillery) kept the railway open from Stirling to Cambus, where trains ran round, to Menstrie until the 1990s. The Cambus loop even being put in for this traffic to allow the trains to run round after the closure of Alloa Marshalling Yard.

The sidings at Menstrie had a loop on the line curving into the works.

Trains ran to Glenochil from United Molasses at the James Watt Dock and from Kings Lynn via Grangemouth (later rerouted to Mossend).

The traffic ceased around 1994.

The railway is closed and lifted as far as Cambus.

Tags

Works factory yeast

Nearby stations
Menstrie and Glenochil
Alva
Cambus
Blackgrange
Manor Powis
Sauchie
Alloa [1st]
Alloa
Alloa Ferry
Glenfoot
South Alloa
Causewayhead
Throsk
Tillicoultry
Stirling East
Devon Viaduct [Tullibody]
Glenochil Ground Frame
King O Muirs 2,3
Glenochil Mine
Clay Pit
Coal Pit
Brick Works
Coblecrook Mill
Devon Viaduct [Cambus]
Cambus Junction
Tourist/other
Glenochil Distillery
Menstrie Castle
New Mills Level Crossing
Dumyat
Cambus Distillery
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

  /  /1994Alva Railway Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Stirling to Cambus and Menstrie (Glenochil Yeast) closed completely. The end nearest Stirling saw occasional use by tampers.