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Glen Ogle Rockfall
All photographs of this location in date order.
![Scene of the landslip that prematurely closed the Callander-Crianlarich section of the Callander & Oban line on 27th September 1965, photographed a few days after the rails had been removed in December 1966. <br>
<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /12/1966]](/images/28000/28647.jpg "Glen Ogle Rockfall")
![This is the rockfall which closed the Callander and Oban as it was in 1993. What? You can't see it? That's it, that small pile in the distant right. Actually it is not that small [see image 28647]. At the time a report predicted that 'hundreds of tons of rock were likely at any time to roll down on to the railway' (John Thomas's words). In the intervening years since closure, currently 46, this has not happened. This was a blackspot for many years, the retaining wall to the right is testimony to this, last re-built in 1963.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1993]](/images/36000/36438.jpg "Glen Ogle Rockfall")
![The site of the rock fall in Glen Ogle looking down to Balquhidder. Not much sign of further rock falls. [See image 28647].<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/08/2017]](/images/60000/60426.jpg "Glen Ogle Rockfall")
![The site of the rockfall in Glen Ogle which blocked the line, leading to a premature closure. The location has been somewhat sanitised since my older photograph in 1993 with bolder removal and conversion of the trackbed to a footpath/cycleway. [See image 36438] We're now 52 years further on and still no further rockfall.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 19/08/2017]](/images/60000/60608.jpg "Glen Ogle Rockfall")
