Port of Menteith
Location type
StationNames and dates
Cardross [F&CJR] (1856-1858)Port of Monteith (1858-1880)
Port of Menteith (1880-1934)
Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Opened on the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway.Description
Port of Menteith was briefly known as Cardross and was renamed to avoid confusion with the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway's station when it opened in 1858.
This was a two platform station of the typical style of the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway. The main station building survives as a residence. This was at the east end of the westbound platform. The goods yard was to the south, accessed from the west end of the loop. The signal box (1893) was on the north side of the line next to the level crossing at the east end of the station (the loop finished east of the crossing).
As this station was some way from the Lake of Menteith, Port of Menteith, and the Port of Menteith Pier (around four miles to the north) for Inchmahome Priory, to the north, there was a coach service, started in 1864, from the station to the port.
The station closed to passengers in 1934, the box being reduced to a gate box.
West to Mye Siding closed in 1952 (lifted 1954).
The railway closed in 1959.
The station's original name was due to its serving Cardross House, to the north. Closer still was the village of Arnprior, to the south, but it never bore this name.
Local
Tags
Station
| Nearby stations Ladylands Platform Fairfields Siding Buchlyvie Kippen Gartmore Aberfoyle Balfron Gargunnock Callander [1st] Callander Ticket Platform Callander (Dreadnought) Doune Gartness Killearn Dumgoyne | Mye Siding Mye Gravel Pit Buchlyvie Junction Kelty Water Bridge Barbadoes Siding Tourist/other Blackhouse Crossing Cardross House Knockinshannock Crossing Strewiebank Crossing Little Kerse West Crossing Inch Talla Castle Inchmahome Priory Port of Menteith Pier Lake of Menteith Little Kerse East Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Last DayOn the last day of the passenger services Graham Easton Langmuir (of the Duckworth and Langmuir series of books) and his father took a train from Glasgow to here, then walked to Port of Menteith for a visit to Inchmahome Priory, returning later to the station for the trip home. Station WoodThe wood just to the north of the former station is still called Station Wood. |
Chronology Dates
| 01/10/1934 | Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Closed to passengers from Balloch (Forth and Clyde Junction [Balloch]) to Gartness Junction and from Buchlyvie Junction to Stirling. The Gartness Junction to Buchlyvie Junction section was used by trains to Aberfoyle and Balfron and Buchlyvie stations remained open. Jamestown, Caldarvan, Drymen, Gartness, Port of Menteith, Kippen and Gargunnock closed to passengers. |
| 01/12/1952 | Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Mye Siding to Port of Menteith (excluded) closed completely. |
| 05/10/1959 | Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Port of Menteith to Stirling New Bridge Signal Box (excluded) closed completely. Sidings such as Cowpark Goods in Stirling remained open. |
Books
 The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos) |
