Crianlarich railway station
Crianlarich 
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| Scottish Gaelic: A' Chrìon Làraich | |
Crianlarich station buildings from the south
(21 April 2006) |
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| Location | |
| Place | Crianlarich |
| Local authority | Stirling |
| Coordinates | 56°23′25″N 4°37′07″W / 56.3903°N 4.6185°WCoordinates: 56°23′25″N 4°37′07″W / 56.3903°N 4.6185°W |
| Grid reference | NN384251 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CNR |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 16,642 |
| – Interchange |
 1,319 |
| 2012/13 |
15,276 |
| – Interchange |
1,347 |
| 2013/14 |
13,040 |
| – Interchange |
20,491 |
| 2014/15 |
16,752 |
| – Interchange |
1,619 |
| 2015/16 |
16,726 |
| – Interchange |
1,466 |
| History | |
| Original company | West Highland Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North British Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| 1894 | Opened |
| 1953 | Suffix "Upper" added to station name. |
| After 1965 | Suffix "Upper" removed from station name. |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Crianlarich from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Crianlarich railway station is a railway station serving the village of Crianlarich in Scotland. It is located on the West Highland Line. The routes to Fort William/Mallaig and Oban diverge after this station. Access to the platform is via a flight of stairs from a subway that runs underneath the tracks, from the car park which is slightly lower than the station itself.
Crianlarich station opened concurrently with the West Highland Railway in 1894, doubling the number of railway stations in the village. The lines and station were eventually built by the state under compulsory purchase arrangements sought after the persistent rejection by the landowners the Place family of Loch Dochart House and Skelton Grange, Yorkshire who even turned down the offer of having all the proceeds from the two station tea-rooms in perpetuity. The Places felt that the project would spoil their shooting grounds; the family sold their house and estate shortly after their defeat and retreated to Yorkshire.
The station was laid out with a crossing loop around an island platform and sidings on both sides. On the east side were was an engine shed and a turntable. Three years after opening, in 1897, a junction and link line down to the Callander and Oban Railway, which passed below the West Highland route, was added. Originally, the junction incorporated a scissors crossover, allowing simultaneous moves through the junction. However until 1931 the link line was only used to exchange good wagons between the two lines. From 1931 onwards, it was also used for excursion traffic from Glasgow and the surrounding areas to the Oban line.
In 1953, British Rail added the suffix "Upper" to the station's name, in order to distinguish it from the nearby station (only about 330-yard (300 m) walk along the north east access road) on the Callander and Oban Line which then became known as Crianlarich Lower.
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