Disused railway lines and closed stations in Stirling

106 miles of disused railway
35 closed stations
6 stations open today
16 named lost lines

Stirling has 106 miles of disused railway and 35 closed stations, against 6 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 5.8 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Forth and Clyde Branch, with 25 miles of its route inside Stirling.

See Stirling’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 106 miles of lost railway in Stirling break down as 93 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 11 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 1.3 miles dismantled and 0.7 miles with track still in place but no trains. 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 Stirling

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

Line	Miles in county
Forth and Clyde Branch	25
Crianlarich Lower Branch	11
Blane Valley Branch	8.0
Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway	7.1
Gleneagles Junction to Balquhidder Branch	4.2
Callander and Oban Railway	3.6
Bandeath Munitions Depot	2.5
Polmaise Junction	2.3
Killin Junction to Loch Tay Branch	1.7
Doune Trail	1.4
Plean Branch	1.3
Carnock Colliery	1.2
Course of Slate Tramway	1.2
Rob Roy Way	0.6
Oban Branch	0.5
Plean West Pit	0.3

Closed railway stations in Stirling

All 35 closed and former stations in Stirling, 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 Stirling

6 stations in Stirling still have a train service. The busiest are Stirling (2.5 million a year), Dunblane (451,060 a year), Bridge of Allan (268,412 a year), Crianlarich (16,156 a year) and Tyndrum Lower (5,986 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

West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, Clackmannanshire, Perth and Kinross, Falkirk, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire and West Lothian.

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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