Callander, Main Street, Callander Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Callander, Main Street, Callander Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Stirling Street; Old Station
Canmore ID 122745
Site Number NN60NW 72
NGR NN 63349 07696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/122745
- Council Stirling
- Parish Callander
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
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.
