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Callander and Oban Railway, a railway in Perth and Argyll shires, from a junction with the Dunblane, Doune, and Callander railway, at the town of Callander, 72 miles northward and westward to the town of Oban. Authorised in 1865, on a capital of £600,000 in shares, and £200,000 on loan, it was originally placed under arrangements with the Scottish Central, which passed to the Caledonian; and by the latter company it is maintained and worked according to an Act of 1870. It was opened to Killin (17 miles) in 1870, to Tyndrum (18 miles) in 1873, to Dalmally (12 miles) in 1877, and to Oban (25 miles) in 1880, the aggregate cost of construction amounting to £670,022. It goes, by the Pass of Leny, along the western shore of Loch Lubnaig, to the vicinity of Lochearnhead; thence up Glen Ogle into the valley of the Dochart, at a point 2½ miles SW of Killin; thence up the valley of the Dochart to Crianlarich, 6 miles NNE of the head of Loch Lomond; thence up Strathfillan to Tyndrum; thence west-south-westward to Dalmally; thence by the northern shore of Loch Awe and the Pass of Brander to Taynuilt; and thence along the southern shore of Loch Etive to Oban. The chief engineering difficulties on it are a gradient of 1 in 60 in the steepest part of the ascent from King's House, Balquhidder, to the summit of Glen Ogle; another stiff gradient, over about 2 miles NW of Crianlarich to the top of the glen at Tyndrum; another in the descent toward Dalmally; and still another in the descent along the face of the cliff to the flat ground immediately behind Oban. The gross revenue for the year ending July 1881, the first year of the completed line being worked, was £38,761. See Oban.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a railway" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
| Administrative units: | Argyll ScoCnty Perthshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Callander |
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