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Luib

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Luib (1873-1965)

Opened on the Callander and Oban Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station. The main station building was on the eastbound platform, the building being of the typical style of the extension of the Callander and Oban Railway from Glenoglehead to Tyndrum [1st].

There was a goods yard to the west, on the north side of the line, reached from the west. The station had a small signal box (1890), more of a covered frame, at the west end. The structure bore resemblance to a garden shed erected on a wooden trestle.

East of the station began the climb to Killin Junction to the west the route was level to Crianlarich. It was not unknown for westbound goods trains to indulge in some racing.

The station closed in 1965 following the Glen Ogle Rockfall. Goods continued very briefly, with Luib as a terminus of the line from Crianlarich, until 1966.

Station cottages remain, the infilled platforms can be traced and there is a base of a water tank. The site is now the Glen Dochart Holiday Park . To the east of the former station is the Luib Hotel.

Another similarly named location, Luib Relief Siding (or Loan Crossing), was located on the Dingwall and Skye Railway west of Achnasheen.

Local

Luib Hotel

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map

Facilities

Gaelic name: An LÃ¹ib

Nearby stations Killin Junction Loch Dochart [Private] Glenoglehead Crossing Crianlarich Lower Crianlarich Killin [2nd] Kingshouse Halt Lochearnhead [2nd] Balquhidder [2nd] Balquhidder [1st] Loch Tay Strathyre Upper Tyndrum Tyndrum [1st] Tyndrum Lower	Allt Coire Chaorach Viaduct Edravinoch Bridge Ledcharrie Viaduct Trapped river loop Ardchyle Viaduct Tourist/other Luib House Coirechaorach Cottage Sgaith Chuil Meall a^Churain Ben More Beinn Cheathaich Meall na Dige Meall Glas Stob Binnein Stob Coire an Lochhain
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

17/09/1964	Callander and Oban Railway Closed to goods from Callander Dreadnought (excluded) to Luib (excluded). Goods traffic is re-routed via Crianlarich Upper.
01/11/1965	Callander and Oban Railway Crianlarich Lower to Callander Dreadnought officially closed to passengers (the Glen Ogle Rockfall closed the line on 28/09/65 and beyond Callander there was a replacement bus service until the end, trains continuing on the portion east of Callander). Following withdrawal of the bus service no public passenger service at all (bus or train) was available between Crianlarich and Killin [2nd]. Official closure of Callander Dreadnought, Strathyre, Kingshouse Platform, Lochearnhead, Killin Junction, Luib, Crianlarich Lower and Killin [2nd]. Crianlarich Lower to Luib remains open to goods.
16/02/1966	Callander and Oban Railway Crianlarich Lower (excluded) to Luib closed to goods.