Lennox Castle Siding
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Lennox Castle SidingOpened on the Blane Valley Railway.
Description
This siding, approached from a headshunt which was entered from the west, served Lennox Castle Hospital. The siding was west of Campsie Glen station.
The siding served the west side of the lower (north east) group of building at the hospital - which became the maternity hospital. The siding terminated alongside the west side of a centrally placed building, the coal fired power station.
Tags
Siding
| Nearby stations Campsie Glen Lennoxtown [2nd] Lennoxtown Old Milton of Campsie Torrance Strathblane Balmore Kirkintilloch [2nd] Bardowie Kirkintilloch Basin Blanefield Back O Loch Halt Milngavie Summerston [1st] Duntreath Halt | Lennoxmill Print Works Culloch Slap Lime Works Lennoxtown Shed Blane Valley Junction Tarfin Min [Alum, Coal, Limestone] Craigend Siding Campsie Alum works Underwood Chemical Works Pattie^s Bughts Quarry Boydsburn Coal Mine Blairskaith Limestone Mine Blairskaith Limekiln Tourist/other Lennox Castle Hospital Woodhead House Lennox Castle |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 05/10/1959 | Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Blane Valley Railway Campsie Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) Aberfoyle to Buchlyvie Junction to Gartness Junction to Campsie Glen (Lennox Castle Siding) (excluded) closed completely (although a final railtour ran on the 17th). Track not lifted until early 1960s. |
| 28/09/1964 | Blane Valley Railway Lennox Castle Siding to Lennoxtown [2nd], Blane Valley Junction, (excluded) closed to freight. |
Books
 Forgotten Railways: Scotland |
