RAILSCOT | Oban High Level Oil Siding

Oban High Level Oil Siding

Location type

Sidings

Names and dates

Lochavullin Goods (1880-1969)
Oban High Level Oil Siding (1969-1991)

Opened on the Callander and Oban Railway.

Description

A closed goods yard south of the passenger terminus in Oban. The location is also known as Oban Goods or Oban High Level Goods. There were a number of sidings here and the Oban Shed, of which the turntable pit remains. An oil siding remained in use here until the early 1990s.

There were two sets of sidings. Those on the north/west served a goods shed and loading banks and those to the south/east were coal sidings and the southernmost had cattle pens alongside Oban Auction Mart [1st] .

The site is now several car parks and industrial and retail units.

Before the railway this was marshy ground, known as Loch a' Mhuilinn (there had been a corn mill to the south of the marshy ground).

Aliases

Oban Goods Oban High Level Goods
04/02/2023

Facilities

Gaelic name: Loch a^ Mhuilinn

Nearby stations Oban Ticket Platform Oban Connel Ferry North Connel Benderloch Ach-na-Cloich Torosay Castle Taynuilt Craignure Barcaldine Halt Appin Creagan Falls of Cruachan Loch Awe Duror	Oban Auction Mart Oban Shed Oban Oil Depot Ground Frame Oban Gas Works Oban Hills Hydropathic Sanatorium Kerrera Seaplane Base Tourist/other Oban Station Pier Pulpit Hill Oban North Pier Northern Lighthouse Board Pier Oban Distillery Oban War and Peace Museum McCaig^s Tower Oban Bay St Columba^s Cathedral
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

01/07/1880	Callander and Oban Railway Line opened from Dalmally to Oban for passengers. The whole line is now open to passengers. Additionally Lochavullin Goods (Oban High Level Goods) opens.