Kingshouse Platform
Location type
StationName and dates
Kingshouse Platform (1871-1965)Opened on the Callander and Oban Railway.
Description
This was a request halt serving the nearby Kingshouse Hotel (just to the east) and road to Balquhidder Glen (to the west). The halt was built at the expense of the Kingshouse Hotel.
It was a single platform, on the east side of the line, with a waiting shelter (which was replaced).
The halt was located south of the road to the glen.
The station closed with the sudden closure of the line following the Glen Ogle Rockfall in 1965.
Little, if anything, remains of the halt. The trackbed is now a walkway. To both north and south the Rob Roy Way follows a different route to the railway trackbed.
The realigned A84 separates the former trackbed from the original road's route and the Mhor84 (formerly Kingshouse Hotel).
Local
About two miles to the west, in Balquhidder Glen, is Balquhidder Old Church, the location of Rob Roy MacGregor's grave.
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Station haltExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
01/06/2020
| Nearby stations Balquhidder [2nd] Balquhidder [1st] Strathyre Lochearnhead [2nd] Glenoglehead Crossing Craig-na-Cailleach Platform Killin Junction Luib Killin [2nd] Callander (Dreadnought) Loch Tay St Fillans Callander Ticket Platform Callander [1st] Dalchonzie Platform | Balquhidder Shed Edinchip Viaduct [C and O] Edinchip Accommodation Bridge Edinchip Viaduct [LSFCR] Strathyre Viaduct Lochearnhead Viaduct Loch Lubnaig Fishing Halt Glen Ogle Rockfall Glen Ogle Viaduct Glenbeich Viaduct Tourist/other Mhor84 Edinchip House Balquhidder Old Church Stuc a'Chroin Ben Vorlich |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
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