Disused railway lines and closed stations in Argyll and Bute

27 miles of disused railway
23 closed stations
14 stations open today
5 named lost lines

Argyll and Bute has 27 miles of disused railway and 23 closed stations, against 14 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 1.6 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Connell Ferry to Ballachulish Line, with 7.6 miles of its route inside Argyll and Bute.

See Argyll and Bute’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 27 miles of lost railway in Argyll and Bute break down as 25 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 1.3 miles with track still in place but no trains and 1.2 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Argyll and Bute

5 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Argyll and Bute; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Connell Ferry to Ballachulish Line	7.6
Campbeltown & Machrihanish Railway	4.7
Isle of Mull Railway	2.2
Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway	1.1
Old quarry tramway	0.7

Closed railway stations in Argyll and Bute

All 23 closed and former stations in Argyll and Bute, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Argyll and Bute

14 stations in Argyll and Bute still have a train service. The busiest are Helensburgh Central (671,306 a year), Oban (201,750 a year), Craigendoran (163,838 a year), Cardross (156,448 a year) and Taynuilt (38,888 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

North Ayrshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, Stirling, South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and Perth and Kinross.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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