Upper Tyndrum

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Tyndrum [WHR] (1894-1953)
Tyndrum Upper (1953-1992)
Upper Tyndrum (1992-)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Where: Stirling, Scotland
Opened on the West Highland Railway.
Open on the West Highland Line.

Description

This is an island platform station in the West Highland 'Swiss Chalet' style. The station building, signal box (closed 1984, 'B' listed and restored), stationmaster's cottage and railwaymen's cottage survive. Entry to the station is by a subway. There is a very small parking area. The station is east of Tyndrum, a small settlement at the west end of Strath Fillan. It is high above the village, as a result of the line needing to gain high height to cross County March Summit [West Highland] to the north.

The reversing spur for the goods yard remains as a permanent way siding. The trackless loading bank itself survives.

A stationmaster's house and railway cottage are downhill from the station on the road which zig-zags up from the main road below.

The station name was reversed in 1992 from 'Tyndrum Upper' to 'Upper Tyndrum' to make the name distinctly different from 'Tyndrum Lower'.

The station building is the office of Scotgold Resources Ltd . There are gold deposits at Cononish Gold Mine, which is around three and half miles by dirt road to the south west.

Local

Clifton, a former mining community, is to the north west. The former Tyndrum Lead Mine, on the north eastern slopes of Sron Nan Colan, is to the west of the station.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
12/06/2022

Facilities

Gaelic name: Taigh an Droma Uachdrach
Listing: B




Nearby stations
Tyndrum [1st]
Tyndrum Lower
Crianlarich Lower
Crianlarich
Loch Dochart [Private]
Bridge of Orchy
Glen Falloch Platform
Luib
Ardlui
Dalmally
Gorton [WHR]
Killin Junction
Inveruglas
Loch Awe
Glenoglehead Crossing
Glengarry Lead Smelter
Tyndrum Goods Junction
Tyndrum Mines Loading Point [1st]
Tyndrum Summit
Tyndrum Lead Shed and Mill
Tyndrum Incline
Tyndrum Lead Mines [Lower] [1st]
Tyndrum Lead Mines Tip [1st]
Cononish Viaduct
Tyndrum Lead Mines [Upper] [1st]
Auchtertyre Viaduct
Tourist/other
Dalrigh [Tyndrum]
Meall Buidhe
Lochan na Bi
St Fillan^s Priory
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Two stations


Tyndrum, with a population around 167, is considered to be the smallest settlement served by two stations. Upper Tyndrum is high above and to the east on the West Highland Railway to Fort William, and Tyndrum Lower is to the south west on the Callander and Oban Railway to Oban. The line from Glasgow Queen Street High Level divides at Crianlarich.


Chronology Dates

  /  /1953Callander and Oban Railway
Tyndrum [CandO] becomes Tyndrum Lower to make the distinction from Tyndrum [WHR] (renamed Tyndrum Upper) station.
16/07/1967West Highland Railway
Switching out provided at Tyndrum Upper signal box.
10/08/1985West Highland Railway
Switching out removed from Tyndrum Upper, Bridge of Orchy signal boxes.
22/12/1985West Highland Railway
Tyndrum Upper signal box closed.
29/05/1988West Highland Railway
Tyndrum Upper, Bridge of Orchy, Rannoch, Corrour, Tulloch, Spean Bridge block posts eliminated by RETB.
26/02/2010West Highland Railway
Avalanches block the line between Upper Tyndrum and Bridge of Orchy. (Re-opened on 8th of March.)

News items

04/04/2022£7m improvement project completed on the West Highland Line [Network Rail]
15/02/2022West Highland line blocked for second time within week due to a broken down engineering vehicle [Press and Journal]
13/08/2021Tyndrum mobile phone customers have again been left without a signal [Daily Record]
05/08/2019Caledonian Sleeper forced to cancel service as West Highland Line closes due to landslip [Press and Journal]

Books

All Stations to Mallaig!: West Highland Line Since Nationalisation
Argyll and the Highlands Last Days of Steam

Argyll and the Highlands' Lost Railways

Ben Nevis and Fort William, The Mamores and The Grey Corries, Kinlochleven and Spean Bridge (OS Explorer Map)

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: West Highland Railway v. 1

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: West Highland Railway v. 1

Iron Road to the Isles: A Travellers and Tourist Guide to the West Highland Lines

Iron Roads to the Isles: A Travellers and Tourists Souvenir Guide to the West Highland Lines

Mountain Moor and Loch on the Route of the West Highland Railway

On West Highland Lines

Railway World Special: West Highland Lines

Rannan Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean =: The West Highland Line

Road To The Isles Dvd: Part One The West Highland Line Between Crianlarich to Fort William, From the Drivers Cab Of A Class 37, With The Caledonian Sleeper
The Mallaig Railway: The West Highland Extension 1897-1901 (RCAHMS Broadsheet)
The New Railway: The Earliest Years of the West Highland Line

The Story of the West Highland

The Story of the West Highland: The 1940s LNER Guide to the Line

The West Highland Railway

The West Highland Railway (Railways of the Scottish Highlands)

The West Highland Railway 120 Years

Trossachs and West Highlands: Exploring the Lost Railways (Local History Series)

Victorian Travel on the West Highland Line: By Mountain, Moor and Loch in 1894

Walks from the West Highland Railway (Cicerone Guide)

West Highland Line: Great Railway Journeys Through Time

West Highland Railway
West Highland Railway (History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands v. 1): West Highland Railway v. 1
West Highland Railway: Plans, Poltics and People