Taynuilt railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Taynuilt
other_name = Taigh an Uillt
code = TAY


caption =
manager = First ScotRail
locale = Taynuilt
borough = Argyll and Bute
lowusage0203 = 7,357
lowusage0405 = 11,334
lowusage0506 = 9,873
platforms = 2
original = Callander and Oban Railway
pregroup = Callander and Oban Railway operated by Caledonian Railway
years = 1 July 1880
events = Opened

Taynuilt railway station is a railway station serving the village of Taynuilt in western Scotland. This station is on the Oban branch of the West Highland Line, originally part of the Callander and Oban Railway.

History

Taynuilt station opened on 1 July 1880, when the Callander and Oban Railway was extended from Dalmally to Oban.

The station was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There are two sidings on the south side of the station.

On 11 January 1987, the crossing loop was altered to right-hand running. The original Down platform has thus become the Up platform, and vice versa. The change was made in order to simplify shunting at this station, by removing the need to hand-pump the train-operated loop points to access the sidings.

= Signalling =

From the time of its opening in 1880, the single line between Dalmally and Oban was worked by the electric token system, this being the first ever application of that system in everyday service.

Taynuilt signal box, which replaced the original box on 24 March 1921, was located at the west end of the station, on the south side of the line. It had 16 levers.

Taynuilt lost all its semaphore signals on 16 February 1986, in preparation for Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) signalling. RETB was commissioned between Crianlarich and Taynuilt on 27 March 1988. Taynuilt signal box did not close until 24 April of that year, when the RETB spread west to Oban. The redundant signal box was later relocated to the opposite end of the station, where it is currently in a semi-derelict state.

The Train Protection & Warning System was installed in 2003.

References

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rail line
next = Connel Ferry
previous = Falls of Cruachan
route = First ScotRail
West Highland Line
col = FF80C0rail line
next = Ach-na-Cloich
"Line Open; Station closed"
previous = Falls of Cruachan
"Line and Station open"
route = Callander and Oban Railway

Operated by Caledonian Railway
col = Caledonian colour
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