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