Shandon railway station

Shandon
Location	Shandon, Argyll and Bute Scotland
Coordinates	56°03′13″N 4°48′35″W / 56.0536°N 4.8096°W / 56.0536; -4.8096Coordinates: 56°03′13″N 4°48′35″W / 56.0536°N 4.8096°W / 56.0536; -4.8096
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	West Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
3 August 1894	Station opened
15 June 1964	Station closed

Shandon is a closed railway station located at Shandon on the east shore of Gare Loch, in Argyll and Bute. It is located towards the southern end of the West Highland Railway.

History[]

This station opened to passengers on 7 August 1894.^[1]

The station was laid out with a crossing loop around an island platform. There was a siding with a loading bank on the east side of the station.^[2] The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939.^[3]

The station closed on 15 June 1964.^[1]

There have been proposals to reopen the station as part of an experiment to open ‘pop-up’ stations in Scotland.^[4]

Signalling[]

From the time of its opening in 1894, the West Highland Railway was worked throughout by the electric token system. Shandon signal box, which had 15 levers, was situated at the south end of the island platform.

The signal box and crossing loop were taken out of use on 2 April 1967. The single line was subsequently realigned through the site of the island platform. As a result, very little trace can be seen of this station today, although the loading bank remains.

See also[]

• Faslane Platform railway station - A nearby temporary WWII station

References[]

Notes[]

Sources[]

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.

Further reading[]

• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• RAILSCOT on the West Highland Railway
• Shandon station on navigable OS map