Kentallen railway station

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Kentallen

Location

Location

Area

Highland

Operations

Original company

Callander and Oban Railway
Ballachulish Branch

Pre-grouping

Callander and Oban Railway operated by Caledonian Railway

Platforms

History

20 August 1903

Open

23 March 1966

Closed

Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom

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Kentallen was a railway station at the head of Kentallen Bay, which is on the south shore of the mouth of Loch Leven in Highland.

[edit] History

This station opened on 20 August 1903. It was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There were sidings on the east side of the line.

The station closed in 1966, when the Ballachulish Branch of the Callander and Oban Railway was closed.

[edit] Signalling

Throughout its existence, the Ballachulish Branch was worked by the electric token system. Kentallen signal box was located on the Up platform, on the east side of the railway. It had 24 levers.

[edit] 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, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.

Fryer, Charles (1989). The Callander and Oban Railway. Oxford: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-8536-1377-X. OCLC 21870958.

Jowett, Alan (1989). Jowett's railway atlas of Great Britain and Ireland : from pre-grouping to the present day, 1st, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.