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Killin Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![BR Standard Class 4 no 80126 stands at Killin in the 1960s with the 1.52pm train to Killin Junction. The line was closed in September of 1965.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/23000/23665.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![Killin station. CR 0.4.4T 55145 on branch train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1950]](/images/16000/16399.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![Killin station. CR 0.4.4T 55145 on branch train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1950]](/images/16000/16400.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![The branch train waits at the platform at Killin station in the summer of 1960. The locomotive is thought to be McIntosh 0-4-4T no 55195.<br><br>[David Stewart 18/06/1960]](/images/46000/46395.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![80093 runs round at Loch Tay on 12 April 1963 prior to returning to Killin with 'Scottish Rambler No 2'.<br><br>[John Robin 12/04/1963]](/images/6000/6553.jpg "Loch Tay")
![The locomotive shed at Loch Tay, photographed on the snowy afternoon of 12 April 1963, the occasion of the visit to the branch by the SLS/BLS <I>Scottish Rambler no 2</I>. Loch Tay station is behind the camera. [See image 6553] <br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 12/04/1963]](/images/36000/36426.jpg "Loch Tay")
![Platform scene at Loch Tay during the visit of the SLS/BLS <I>'Scottish Rambler no 2'</I> special on 12 April 1963. 80093 has just completed the run round manoeuvre and is about to take the train back to Killin Junction. [See image 36775] <br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 12/04/1963]](/images/36000/36956.jpg "Loch Tay")
![BR Standard tank 80093 makes a photostop at Killin on 12 April 1963 with <I>Scottish Rambler No 2</I> during a welcome break in the wintry weather. The train would shortly continue on its journey to Loch Tay. Note the <I>Camping Coach</I> in the siding to the left.<br><br>[John Robin 12/04/1963]](/images/49000/49443.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![BR standard class 4 no 80126 in the single road wooden locomotive shed at Loch Tay in February 1964. Passenger services on the branch were cut back to Killin in 1939 when the station at Loch Tay (which had originally carried the suffix <I>Pier</I>) was closed.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 01/02/1964]](/images/23000/23888.jpg "Loch Tay Shed")
![<I>Breathe in...</I> BR standard class 4 no 80126 stands in the cramped wooden shed at Loch Tay following a spell of duty on the Killin branch on 1 February 1964.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 01/02/1964]](/images/24000/24083.jpg "Loch Tay Shed")
![80028 stands at Killin with the branch train in 1965 a few weeks before closure.<br><br>[K A Gray //1965]](/images/23000/23822.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![Complete with Brownie 127, a young DS surveys the abandoned locomotive shed at Loch Tay at Easter 1966. While the passenger service to Killin lasted until 1965, the station at Loch Tay - originally Loch Tay (Killin Pier) - had closed as long ago as 1939. The photograph was taken six months after the last branch steam engine had disappeared west towards Crianlarich, never to return. [See image 24083]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1966]](/images/32000/32557.jpg "Loch Tay Shed")
![The former Loch Tay terminus, photographed in April 1966, six months after closure of the Killin branch. The Locomotive shed stands in the background [see image 32557].<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /04/1966]](/images/34000/34768.jpg "Loch Tay")
![The viaduct over the River Dochart looking towards Killin in December 1966.<br><br>[(c) 2016 Google and (c) 2016 DigitalGlobe /12/1966]](/images/32000/32067.jpg "Dochart Viaduct")
![Looking south towards Killin Junction from Killin station in December 1966, fifteen months after the last train ran. Following the discovery of a landslide in Glenogle in the early hours of 27th September 1965, the morning train from Killin had run as usual to Killin Junction, only to find there was no main line train to connect with. The branch train therefore continued to Crianlarich, following which the railway closed completely, five weeks before originally scheduled. [See image 32993]<br>
<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /12/1966]](/images/32000/32983.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![The old station building at Killin, photographed in 1968, some 3 years after closure.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1968]](/images/27000/27492.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![A lot more trees have grown since my hero Derek Cross photographed the Killin branch train on the Dochart Viaduct but it is still possible to see this impressive structure from the river bank. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008]](/images/19000/19271.jpg "Dochart Viaduct")
![The trackbed over the Dochart viaduct viewed towards Killin station. Deer fencing has been fitted on both sides as the walls are very low. The line can be walked from here through the station and on to Loch Tay. Map Ref NN574327 <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008]](/images/19000/19272.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![Killin station itself is not the picturesque location it once was with a toilet block where the station building stood and a council depot in the goods yard. However, over forty years after closure in 1965, the trackbed towards Loch Tay still makes an excellent country walk. Map Ref NN 575333 [See image 23665] for a 'Then and Now' comparison with the station in operation.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008]](/images/19000/19277.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![Surviving telegraph pole alongside the trackbed and identical to that seen in picture 16399. Apart from occasional specials this section of track was only used to access the locoshed at Loch Tay after closure to passengers in 1939. View towards Killin at approx Map Ref NN 576339<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008]](/images/19000/19285.jpg "Loch Tay")
![43 years after final closure in 1965 several wooden sleepers still sit in the ash ballast trackbed that is now a footpath from Killin to Loch Tay. View towards Killin at approx Map Ref NN 580343<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008]](/images/19000/19286.jpg "Loch Tay")
![A view back over the River Lochay bridge towards Killin station site and up the hill towards the Dochart viaduct. The goods yard entrance (now the Council yard) was immediately beyond the bridge on the right and the station platform just a little further on from there. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008]](/images/19000/19334.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![The railway bridge over the River Lochay looking towards Loch Tay. This bridge can just be seen in the 1963 picture No.6552 immediately beyond the goods yard points. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008]](/images/19000/19336.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![Crumbling refuge and parapet on Dochart Viaduct, now protected by a deer fence, with the view downstream towards Loch Tay. The refuges, built out slightly from the bridge, can be seen from below as in pictures 19271 and 19946. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 29/05/2008]](/images/20000/20224.jpg "Dochart Viaduct")
![A picture of the bridge which carried the railway across the River Lochay just east of Killin station site on its way to Loch Tay.<br><br>[John Gray 23/07/2008]](/images/19000/19941.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![A view along the trackbed towards Loch Tay.<br><br>[John Gray 23/07/2008]](/images/19000/19942.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![The end of the line. The gate on the right leads to the former Loch Tay station, now a private house. The gate on the left the former trackbed to another private house where the engine shed used to be. There is no access beyond here without permission. <br><br>[John Gray 23/07/2008]](/images/19000/19945.jpg "Loch Tay")
![The famous viaduct across the River Dochart on the Killin branch. <br><br>[John Gray 23/07/2008]](/images/19000/19946.jpg "Dochart Viaduct")
![Heading out of Killin near the Falls of Dochart in March 2010. This part of the trackbed is cycleable, but rather uphill. There's a pile of concrete sleepers hereabouts - I'm sure they'd let you take as many as you can carry!<br><br>[Ken Strachan 17/03/2010]](/images/45000/45046.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![A nice bit of light and shade on a cool spring day near Killin in March 2010. Ambient temperature was 10 degrees C, but it had recently been down to minus 17. The lochs were still frozen, but creaking ominously as they thawed!<br><br>[Ken Strachan 17/03/2010]](/images/45000/45070.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![The station yard at Killin has been properly surfaced and marked out as a car and bus park since my last visit in 2008 [See image 19277]. There has also been some landscaping and these saplings, alongside the trackbed, already obscure the distinctive mountain backdrop that was a feature of photos of the station in operation.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 18/05/2010]](/images/29000/29144.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![Little remains of Killin station but the trackbed is still walkable. This view looks towards Killin Junction in February 2011. [See image 32983].<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /02/2011]](/images/32000/32993.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
![View from the Hydro powerstation (left) looking over the house located on the site of Loch Tay shed and towards Killin in February 2011. The station building may still exist here (it still stood in the late 80s as a private house, does anyone happen to know? updat e; confirmed as still standing 2009.)<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /02/2011]](/images/32000/32997.jpg "Loch Tay Shed")
![Near the Loch Tay terminus of the Killin Branch, erosion has revealed the stone block construction of the railway embankment/trackbed where it runs very close to the loch. In this view from the beach the line runs from left (Killin) to right (Loch Tay) with the minor public road beyond. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/07/2011]](/images/34000/34824.jpg "Loch Tay")
![Although now closed for almost fifty years there are still several places on the Killin branch trackbed where the old sleepers can be seen, embedded in the ash ballast. This one is by the wicket gate just to the east of the bridge over the River Lochay. Killin station itself was just over the bridge.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 04/07/2011]](/images/35000/35006.jpg "Killin [2nd]")
