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Balloch Central Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Balloch Central Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Balloch Station; Balloch Town Station
Canmore ID 126341
Site Number NS38SE 30
NGR NS 3898 8192
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/126341
- Council West Dunbartonshire
- Parish Bonhill (West Dunbartonshire)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS38SE 30 3898 8192
Not to be confused with Balloch Pier Station (NS 3855 8254), for which see NS38SE 32.
This site was visited and photographed by J R Hume, University of Strathclyde, 3 September 1975. See NMRS MS/749 [Dunbartonshire Bonhill/ Balloch parish] for contact prints JR Hume H75/53/13-14.
(Location cited as NS 389 819) Balloch Central Station, opened 1850 by the Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Railway. A 2-platform through station, with the offices on the up-platform, in a 2-storey, coursed-rubble block with a single storey wing. The building has been partly modernised.
J R Hume 1976.
This station was opened (as Balloch Station) on 15 July 1850, and renamed Balloch Central Station (by British Railways) on 30 July 1952. It closed on 24 April 1988, being replaced by the present Balloch Station (to the S of the level crossing).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 February 1998.
R V J Butt 1995.
Previously known as Balloch Station (NBR) probably opened 15.7.1850 (Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Railway) Electrified 1960 - information from the Rokeby Collection.
Not to be confused with Balloch Pier Station
NS38SE 30
Balloch Central Station: Caledonian Dunbartonshire Railway, 1850.
Visited and photographed by J R Hume, University of Strathclyde, 3 September 1975.
Information from MS/749 (Dunbartonshire, Bonhill parish, Balloch Central Station), photographic contact prints (Hume index number) H75/53/13, 14 attached (negatives with reporter, J R Hume).
