Aberfoyle Quarries
Location type
MineName and dates
Aberfoyle Quarries (1700-1958)Served by the Aberfoyle Slate Quarries Tramway.
Description
The Aberfoyle Slate Quarries were located north of Aberfoyle. After arrival of the railway in 1882 a tramway, with a steep incline out of Aberfoyle, was installed running to the quarries. The quarries predated the railway and tramway, possibly opening in the early 1700s or even earlier.
The quarries closed not long after the railway closed. A drop in movement of slate by rail partly led to the railway's closure.
The tramway was opened in 1885 (Glasgow Herald) and closed some time before the 1950s.
Tags
Quarry slate slate quarryExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
11/08/2023
| Nearby stations Aberfoyle Gartmore Buchlyvie Craig-na-Cailleach Platform Port of Menteith Callander (Dreadnought) Callander [1st] Callander Ticket Platform Balfron Ladylands Platform Strathyre Fairfields Siding Gartness Drymen Killearn | Aberfoyle Shed Brig o^ Turk Forth Viaduct [Gartmore] Barbadoes Siding Kelty Water Bridge Tourist/other Loch Achray Trossachs Pier Loch Venachar Gartmore House Lake of Menteith Inch Talla Castle Inchmahome Priory Port of Menteith Pier Ben Ledi Loch Katrine |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1947 | Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway Tramway from Aberfoyle station to Aberfoyle Quarries closed. |
| / /1958 | Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway Aberfoyle Quarries closed. |
