Archaeology Notes

Event ID 841886

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN12NW 51 12390 27429

Loch Awe Station [NAT]

OS (GIS) AIB, May 2008.

Location formerly entered as NN 1241 2742.

For adjacent pier, see NN12NW 59.

This intermediate station on the Callander- Crianlarich - Oban secondary line of the former Caledonian Rly was opened (by the Callander and Oban Rly) on 1 July 1880. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 28 September 1965, but reopened as an unstaffed halt on 10 May 1985.

(Daniels and Dench cite the date of closure as 1 November 1965).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 May 2008.

G Daniels and L Dench 1980; C E J Fryer 1989; R V J Butt 1995.