Menstrie and Glenochil

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Menstrie (1863-1954)
Menstrie and Glenochil (1954-1954)

Opened on the Alva Railway.

Description

This was a single platform station on the north side of the line. The platform extended under the bridge at the west end of the station.

The station buildings was by the bridge, on its east side. To the east was a small goods yard on the north side of the line. Beyond this was a branch to the Glenochil Distillery on the south side of the line. Extra stabling sidings, accessed from the east, were laid in south of the platform for the distillery.

The station closed in 1954 and the line east to Alva closed in 1964.

The distillery site is still in use. Glenochil Yeast was based in the north of the site and the railway remained open officially until 1994 to deliver molasses here from the James Watt Dock, Greenock. A loop was left in place.

Track was left in place for a time and the line to Cambus is now a footpath.

A railway cottage remains on the west side of the road, and north side of line.

Tags

Station

External links

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



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


Chronology Dates

02/03/1964Alva Railway
Alva to Menstrie (excluded) closed to freight.
  /02/1980Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Much of Alloa New Yard (Nos 1 to 5 sidings and east end headshunt) secured out of use. Trains to Menstrie continue to round in the yard. Most trains heading east from Cambus travel via the yard to reach Alloa West Junction, rather than use the main line.
  /  /1994Alva Railway Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Stirling to Cambus and Menstrie (Glenochil Yeast) closed completely. The end nearest Stirling saw occasional use by tampers.