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Balfron, Indians Road, Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Balfron, Indians Road, Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Balfron Railway Station
Canmore ID 123039
Site Number NS58NW 23
NGR NS 52251 89333
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/123039
- Council Stirling
- Parish Balfron
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS58NW 23 52251 89333
Balfron Station [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1980.
(Location cited [incorrectly] as NS 952 893). Balfron Station, opened 1856 by the Forth and Clyde Rly. Formerly a two-platform through station with the main offices on the down (Stirling) platform in a 1- and 2-storey rubble building on a T plan, incorporating a dwellinghouse with an awning in angle of the T. The corrugated-iron goods shed also survives.
J R Hume 1976.
This intermediate station on the Balloch-Stirling ('Forth valley') line of the (former) North British Rly. was opened on 26 May 1856 by the Edinburgh and Glasgow (Forth and Clyde Junction) Rly. and closed to regular passenger traffic on 1 October 1951.
R V J Butt 1995.
