Archaeology Notes

Event ID 764186

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN60NW 72.00 63349 07696

NN60NW 72.01 63486 07683 Railway Engine Shed

NN60NW 72.02 6347 0763 Railway Turntable

For successor station (NN 6266 0811), see NN60NW 68.

A third-class station situated at the W (sic) end of the village of Callander, where the Callander branch of Railway terminates

Name Book (Perthshire), 1865

The original station at Callander was 'a two-platform affair, not as large as the one that later replaced it'. It was situated 'several hundred yards east' of its successor.

C E J Fryer 1989.

The original station at Callander was opened on 1 July 1858 by the Dunblane, Doune and Callander Rly. It was closed to regular passenger traffic (by the Callander and Oban Rly.) on 1 June 1870 when it was replaced by Callander (Dreadnought) station (NN60NW 68) on the extension of the line towards Killin and Oban.

R V J Butt 1995.