Kingshouse Halt
Location type
StationName and dates
Kingshouse Halt (1871-1965)Opened on the Callander and Oban Railway.
Description
This was a request halt serving the nearby Kingshouse Hotel (just to the east) and road to Balquhidder Glen (to the west). The halt was built at the expense of the Kingshouse Hotel.
It was a single platform, on the east side of the line, with a waiting shelter (which was replaced). Both platform and building were built in timber. Traffic handled included passengers, children using the school train and milk churns.
The halt was located south of the road to the glen.
The station closed with the sudden closure of the line following the Glen Ogle Rockfall in 1965.
Little, if anything, remains of the halt. The trackbed is now a walkway. To both north and south the Rob Roy Way follows a different route to the railway trackbed.
The realigned A84 separates the former trackbed from the original road's route and Mhor84 (formerly Kingshouse Hotel).
11 miles 38 chains from Callander and Oban Junction, Callander.
Local
About two miles to the west, in Balquhidder Glen, is Balquhidder Old Church, the location of Rob Roy MacGregor's grave.
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Station haltAliases
Kingshouse PlatformExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
Chronology Dates
| 21/06/1871 | Callander and Oban Railway Kingshouse Halt opened following petitioning from local people. |
