Killearn railway station served the village of
Killearn, Stirling, Scotland from 1882 to 1951 on the
Blane Valley Railway.
History
The station opened as Killearn (New) on 2 October 1882 by the
Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway
The Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway was a railway line in Scotland.
The line was operated by the North British Railway and then, after 1923, by the London and North Eastern Railway. Unable to compete in the face of road competition, the lin ...
when it extended the
Blane Valley Railway northwards from to Gartness Junction (on the
Forth and Clyde Junction Railway
The Forth and Clyde Junction Railway was a railway line in Scotland which ran from Stirling to Balloch.
It was built with the expectation of conveying coal from the Fife coalfields to a quay at Bowling on the Clyde for onward transport, but th ...
). The station's name changed to Killearn on 1 April 1896 when Killearn (Old) was renamed Dumgoyne Hill.
To the west was the goods yard. The station was host to a
LNER LNER may refer to:
*London and North Eastern Railway, a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1923 until 1947
*London North Eastern Railway, a train operating company in the United Kingdom since 2018
* Liquid neutral earthing resistor, a type ...
camping coach from 1936 to 1939.
The station closed to passengers on 1 October 1951 and to goods traffic on 5 October 1959.
References
External links
Killearn station on Railscot
Disused railway stations in Stirling (council area)
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1882
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1951
Former North British Railway stations
1867 establishments in Scotland
1951 disestablishments in Scotland
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