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Stirling South Shed

Location type

Loco shed

Names and dates

Stirling Shed [CR] (1848-1950)
Stirling South Shed (1950-1966)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Description

Also known as Burghmuir or Stirling South. This four road shed was south of Stirling station, on the east side of the line. Access was from both directions.

It replaced a two road shed, approached from the south, which was a little further north than the better known shed.

When first opened the later building was a single ended shed. Craigs Crossing (a level crossing) was just to the south. After the crossing was replaced by a bridge further south an approach was added at the south end. Stirling South Signal Box replaced the former box at the Craigs.

In 1950 the shed was renamed Stirling South Shed.

British Railways assigned the code 63B and sub sheds Loch Tay Shed and Shore Road Shed [NB] (Stirling Shed [NB]). After 1960 it was re-coded as 65J.

Mostly a goods engine shed also providing banking uphill from Stirling through Bridge of Allan to Dunblane.

The shed closed in 1966 and the site used as locomotive storage and later as staging sidings until the 1990s. The sidings have now largely been cleared.

Aliases

Burghmuir Shed

Nearby stations Stirling East Stirling Causewayhead Manor Powis Bannockburn Blackgrange Bridge of Allan Bridge of Allan [1st] Cambus Plean Throsk Menstrie and Glenochil South Alloa Dunblane Alloa Ferry	Craigs Crossing Craigs Siding Forthside Ordnance Depot Springkerse Siding Stirling Middle Junction Stirling Goods Shore Road Goods [NB] Stirling North Junction Cowpark Goods Shore Road Shed [NB] Forth and Clyde Junction [Stirling] Tourist/other Players Road Level crossing Stirling South Signal Box Shore Road Level Crossing [CR] Shore Road Level Crossing [NB]
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1950	Scottish Central Railway Stirling Shed [CR] renamed Stirling South Shed.
/ /1951	Scottish Central Railway New Stirling South Shed round-house is set-out with a turntable from Polmadie Shed, however the work is abandoned and demolished.
16/09/1957	Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Shore Road Shed [NB] closed, locomotives transferred to Stirling South Shed.
/04/1960	Scottish Central Railway Stirling South Shed coded 65J as a sub-shed from Eastfield Shed.
13/06/1966	Scottish Central Railway Stirling South Shed closed to steam. Shortly afterwards the allocation is transferred to Grangemouth Shed and the shed closed.