Oban Junction
Location type
JunctionNames and dates
Dunblane Junction (1858-1880)Oban Junction (1880-1971)
Opened on the Scottish Central Railway.
Opened on the Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway.
Description
This junction was immediately north of Dunblane station. Here the Scottish Central Railway was met by the Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway. The branch was to be extended by the Callander and Oban Railway to Oban.
Allanwater Viaduct is just to the north of the junction on the main line.
Dunblane Shed was located in the 'V' of the junction.
The original junction layout had the Callander [1st] branch meet the down line and a crossover gave access to the up line.
Layout was modified to run as two separate south to Dunblane station, just to the south. There was a connection from the station's Oban platform to the down line.
After the branch was doubled (1902), the junction became a double track junction with a line from the Oban branch to the Oban platform.
There was a mail apparatus on the east side of the main line, just south of Allanwater Viaduct and north of the junction. A siding was on the east side, making a trailing connection to the southbound main line, just north of the junction.
The branch was singled in 1955.
The branch closed in 1965 (actually February 1966 when the last portion to Springbank Mill Siding closed) and a short permanent way siding remains here.
Tags
Junction
| Nearby stations Dunblane Bridge of Allan [1st] Bridge of Allan Kinbuck Doune Causewayhead Stirling East Stirling Manor Powis Greenloaning Blackgrange Menstrie and Glenochil Gargunnock Cambus Alva | Dunblane Shed Allanwater Viaduct Springbank Mill Siding Laigh Hill Tunnel Kippenross Viaduct Barbush Viaduct Kippenross Tunnel Mill o^ Keir Viaduct Ashfield Viaduct Ashfield Tunnel Ashfield Mill Ardoch Burn Bridge Tourist/other Dunblane Cathedral Kippenross House Ashfield Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 09/06/1902 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Doubled section between Dunblane and Doune opened. West and East signal boxes at Doune and Dunblane North box at Dunblane Junction replaced. Doune rebuilt as an island platform station. |
| 30/07/1971 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Springbank Mill Siding to Dunblane Junction (excluded) closed. A short length from the junction was retained as a permanent way siding. |
| / /1988 | Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway Re-ballasting beyond the end of the siding at Dunblane Junction, possibly as a stabling siding. Track laying was not proceeded with. |
