Tyndrum Lower railway station

For the other station in Tyndrum, see Upper Tyndrum railway station.

Tyndrum Lower Scottish Gaelic: Taigh an Droma Ìochdrach[1]
General information
Location	Tyndrum, Stirling Scotland
Coordinates	56.4336°N 4.7135°W / 56.4336; -4.7135
Grid reference	NN327301
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	TYL
History
Original company	Callander and Oban Railway
Pre-grouping	Callander and Oban Railway operated by Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
1 August 1873	Original terminus opened as Tyndrum[2]
1 May 1877	Original terminus closed[2]
1 May 1877	Through station opened as Tyndrum[2]
28 February 1956	Renamed as Tyndrum Lower[2]
Passengers
2019/20	5,128
2020/21	858
2021/22	3,386
Interchange	829
2022/23	4,650
Interchange	1,343
2023/24	6,382
Interchange	1,506
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Tyndrum Lower railway station is one of two railway stations serving the small village of Tyndrum in Scotland, the other being Upper Tyndrum. This station is on the Oban branch of the West Highland Line, originally part of the Callander and Oban Railway. It is sited 34 miles 70 chains (56.1 km) from Callander via Glen Ogle, between Crianlarich and Dalmally.^[3] ScotRail manage the station and operate all services.

History

Train stopping at Tyndrum Lower with a service from Glasgow Queen Street to Oban (1986)

This station opened on 1 August 1873 as a terminal station. This was the first railway station in the village of Tyndrum. Until 1877, it was the western extremity of the Callander and Oban Railway.^[4]

In 1877, the Callander and Oban Railway was extended from Tyndrum to Dalmally. Concurrently, the station was relocated 301 yards (275 m) west,^[2] onto the new through alignment. The new station was on a higher level, as the line had to climb steeply to reach the summit about 0.6 miles (1 km) to the west. The old terminus then became the goods yard. The through station was originally laid out with two platforms, one on each side of a passing loop.

In 1894, the West Highland Railway opened a second station in Tyndrum, north of the village. In 1953, the suffixes "Upper" and "Lower" were added to the station names. Services to Callander & Dunblane over the old C&O route via Strathyre ceased on 27 September 1965 - they had been scheduled for withdrawal as a result of the Beeching Axe from 1 November that year, but ended five weeks prior to that date following a landslide in Glen Ogle that blocked the trackbed.^[5] All services henceforth used the 1897 connection to the WHR at Crianlarich Upper to reach Glasgow.

Facilities

The station is equipped with a shelter, a bench, bike racks, a help point and a car park, to which there is step-free access from the platform.^[6] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.

Passenger volume

In the 2006-07 period, the station was apparently the least used station in Scotland, which may have been down to calculations from tickets which show "Tyndrum stations", which are valid to either here or Upper Tyndrum.^{[citation needed]}

Passenger Volume at Tyndrum Lower^[7]

	2002-03	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22
Entries and exits	6,937	8,057	7,481	17	4,577	4,552	4,146	3,856	3,698	3,928	4,082	5,334	5,488	5,510	5,364	5,996	5,128	858	3,386
Interchanges	N/A																1,399	302	829

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

Six trains in each direction call Mondays to Saturdays, with three departures each way on Sundays all year. There is an additional train each way in summer only, which runs from/to Edinburgh Waverley (rather than Glasgow Queen Street).^[8][9]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Crianlarich		ScotRail West Highland Line		Dalmally
	Historical railways
Crianlarich Line and station open		Callander and Oban Railway Crianlarich Link Line Operated by Caledonian Railway		Dalmally Line and station open
Crianlarich Lower Line and station closed		Callander and Oban Railway Operated by Caledonian Railway

References

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt (1995), page 236
3. Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. pp. 87, 88. ISBN 978-1909431-26-3.
4. Thomas, John (1965). The West Highland Railway (3rd ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 30. ISBN 0-946537-14-3.
5. "Callander and Oban Railway" Speller,J Spellerweb.net; Retrieved 26 August 2016
6. "National Rail Enquiries -". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
7. "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
8. eNRT May 2022 Edition, Table 218
9. eNRT December 2021 Edition, Table 218

Bibliography

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• Fryer, Charles (1989). The Callander and Oban Railway. Oxford: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-8536-1377-X. OCLC 21870958.
• 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.

External links

• Video footage of Tyndrum Lower Station