Kinbuck
Location type
StationName and dates
Kinbuck (1848-1956)Opened on the Scottish Central Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station north of Dunblane. The main station building was on the northbound platform. A similar example exists at Blackford.
There was a goods yard to the north of the station on the west side, approached from the north. On the east side was a siding serving a sand pit. The station's signal box, replaced 1916, was on the east side, north of the southbound platform.
Kinbuck closed to passengers in 1956. The signal box remained open until 1966.
The station building is now a house. Nothing remains of the platforms. The same pit is currently (2018) a landfill site.
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StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Dunblane Greenloaning Bridge of Allan [1st] Bridge of Allan Doune Carsebreck Causewayhead Menstrie and Glenochil Manor Powis Blackgrange Stirling East Stirling Blackford Alva Cambus | Ashfield Siding Ashfield Mill Ashfield Tunnel Ashfield Viaduct Barbush Viaduct Laigh Hill Tunnel Allanwater Viaduct Springbank Mill Siding Dunblane Shed Oban Junction Kippenross Viaduct Kippenross Tunnel Tourist/other Ashfield Signal Box Battle of Sheriffmuir Monument Dunblane Cathedral |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 22/05/1848 | Scottish Central Railway Opened from Stirling to Perth. Stations at: Bridge of Allan [1st], Dunblane, Kinbuck, Greenloaning, Auchterarder, Dunning, Forteviot, Forgandenny, Perth General. |
| 10/11/1868 | Scottish Central Railway Decision taken to move the locomotive shed at Dunblane Shed to Dolphinton [CR] on the Dolphinton Branch (Caledonian Railway). The Kinbuck banking engine and Callander [1st] engines operated from Stirling after 1865. |
