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Craigendoran Junction
All photographs of this location in date order.
![303 at Craigendoran Junction. View looks west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1745.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![37 hauled passenger train takes the West Highland Railway at Craigendoran Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/1000/1746.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![Eastbound service comes off the single track section east of Craigendoran Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7179.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![Standard Class 5 4-6-0 73078 pilots Black 5 44967 on a Glasgow bound West Highland Line train passing Craigendoran Junction in the spring of 1959. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/05/1959]](/images/49000/49516.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![<I>Euston, we have a problem...</I> The Fort William sleeper stands in the loop at Craigendoran on the morning of 29 July 1967, following partial failure of a pair of class 27s on the climb north from the junction. The 27s were then joined by a class 20 commandeered from a nearby freight, but their combined efforts still proved insufficient. The photograph shows the trio having detached themselves from the train awaiting the arrival of a rescue locomotive from Eastfield MPD. An NBL type 2 subsequently appeared and eventually took the sleeper on its belated journey north.<br><br>[John McIntyre 29/07/1967]](/images/17000/17836.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![An NBL Class 29 loco arrives at Craigendoran Jct running wrong line to come and rescue the London to Fort William sleeper. The pair of BRCW Type 2s on the train had developed faults and an EE Type 1 on a freight was unable to move the train. At a time when the NBL engines did not have the best reputation, it was rather pleasing to be successfully rescued by one of these locos.<br><br>[John McIntyre 29/07/1967]](/images/61000/61216.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![27042 brings a train for Glasgow Queen Street off the West Highland Line at Craigendoran Junction in 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/13000/13672.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![Passing Craigendoran SB, 27042 comes through Craigendoran with a service for Glasgow Queen St from the West Highland line in 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/24000/24690.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![Prototype EMU 920001 approaching Ardmore West level crossing on a test run returning from Helensburgh around 1977.<br><br>[Gordon Smith Collection (Courtesy Ken Browne) //1977]](/images/26000/26652.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![The Royal Train passing Craigendoran Junction behind 87028 <i>Lord President</i>.<br><br>[John Robin 09/07/1981]](/images/6000/6902.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![87028 <I>Lord President</I> waits on the sea wall at Craigendoran with the Royal Train. Princess Anne was on a visit to Helensburgh.<br><br>[John Robin 09/07/1981]](/images/14000/14057.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![From the rear of a blue train is a view of a West Highland bound freight at Craigendoran Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7837.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![Craigendoran Junction signalbox looking west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8040.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![Permanent Way train at Craigendoran in the CE siding.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8643.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![303 005 on the approach to Craigendoran from the east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8644.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![Waiting in the loop at Craigendoran Jct, K4 no. 3442 and K1 no. 2005 let off steam while the crew attempt to get the portable RETB kit to receive a token from Banavie. The train was the West Highland Centenary special to Fort William.<br><br>[John McIntyre 07/08/1994]](/images/59000/59833.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![303 approaching Craigendoran Junction from the east. This was the last run of a Blue Train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 30/12/2002]](/images/2000/2531.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![The last Blue Train passes Craigendoran Junction on its final passenger run.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 30/12/2002]](/images/2000/2532.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![A service for Oban approaches Craigendoran Junction along the seawall on the 6th of April, 2003. The train is just coming off the short section of single track before the junction between the Helensburgh Central and West Highland routes. The line in the foreground is a loop on the West Highland route and the buffer terminates the down CE siding (formerly the westbound line of the Helensburgh Central route). About this point the line originally came straight on to Helensburgh Central, Craigendoran being on the present line, a deviation opened in 1882. This was also the site of a wartime yard.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/04/2003]](/images/33000/33423.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![61264 pauses in Craigendoran Loop. May 25, 2006.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham 25/05/2006]](/images/9000/9546.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![Freight for Fort William comes out of the sunrise at Craigendoran Junction but has to wait for the Helensburgh to Glasgow service to clear the junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 04/01/2007]](/images/13000/13004.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![Craigendoran Junction looking W Helensburgh to left WHL to right.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 30/04/2007]](/images/14000/14807.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![The first Oban/Mallaig southbound service of the day joins the North Clyde electric lines just east of Craigendoran Junction. May 2007.<br><br>[John McIntyre 28/05/2007]](/images/15000/15277.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![Helensburgh bound service approaching Craigendoran Junction around the sea wall on 28 May 2007.<br><br>[John McIntyre 28/05/2007]](/images/15000/15344.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![334009 heads east alongside the sea wall at Craigendoran with a service to Airdrie on 28 May 2007.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 28/05/2007]](/images/32000/32301.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
!['Leaf Train' waiting in Craigendoran Loop is passed by a SPT train heading for Helensburgh.<br><br>[Beth Crawford 19/11/2011]](/images/36000/36468.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![During the early evening of 22 September 2012, a train bound for Helensburgh Central slows for the stop at Craigendoran, shortly after passing the junction with the West Highland Line. <br><br>[John McIntyre 22/09/2012]](/images/40000/40468.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![Glasgow bound 334034 heads east from Craigendoran Jct along the edge of the River Clyde on 23 September 2012.<br><br>[John McIntyre 23/09/2012]](/images/53000/53364.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![The 'Leaf Train' is back for 2014! There have been some changes since last year - there is now a branch of Waitrose at Craigendoran Loop where the train pauses whilst awaiting permission to head back east. I wonder if the driver has time to grab a free coffee while he's waiting. One also can't help but wonder why Waitrose does not use rail freight for deliveries when the railway is so close...<br><br>[Beth Crawford 08/10/2014]](/images/48000/48968.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![62005 restarts and takes to the West Highland Line at Craigendoran Junction after a pause. The locomotive is on its way to Fort William for the Jacobite season.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/05/2016]](/images/55000/55148.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![66739 squirms round the reverse curves at Craigendoran Junction to leave the West Highland and join the Helensburgh line. The track to the right is a loop for the West Highland and that to the left a somewhat overgrown PW siding (disconnected), formerly the westbound track of the Helensburgh line. The digger at the extreme left is involved with the laying of a new sewer at Craigendoran Pier.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/06/2016]](/images/55000/55401.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![The 'Leaf Train' pauses at Craigendoran before returning east.<br><br>[Beth Crawford 11/10/2016]](/images/56000/56817.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![Southbound 66743 passes the signal box at Craigendoran and is about to join the Helensburgh line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 18/11/2016]](/images/57000/57185.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![A Sprinter is about to take to the West Highland at Craigendoran. Just off the the left is a memorial to Henry Bell and the Comet. But you can't see it. Sorry about that.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 18/11/2016]](/images/57000/57190.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![The empty Fort William Sleeper (Deerstalker) paused at Craigendoran Junction on a Saturday afternoon en route to Polmadie.<br><br>[Beth Crawford 03/06/2017]](/images/59000/59597.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![A tree stump on the Waitrose service road is excellently placed to give a better view over the lineside fence at Craigendoran Junction. 334004 leads a six car set from Edinburgh taking the branch to Helensburgh Central on 30th July 2017. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/07/2017]](/images/60000/60435.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![62005 takes the loop for a water stop at Craigendoran Junction on a southbound journey to Carnforth.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/10/2017]](/images/61000/61612.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![During pre-season Jacobite stock movement, diesel locomotive 37518 is uncoupled from steam locomotive 44871 to act as a banker for the remainder of the journey to Fort William.<br><br>[Beth Crawford 28/03/2018]](/images/63000/63390.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
![A trial run of the new sleeper coaches from Polmadie to Arrochar and Tarbet passes Craigendoran Junction. Unexpectedly this did not pause and was able to take a run at the climb to Helensburgh Upper with a friendly hoot as it passed. (I have wondered for years what the strange brackets are seen below the train, does anyone know?)<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/04/2018]](/images/63000/63567.jpg "Craigendoran Junction")
