Forgotten Railways -Dunblane, Doune and Callander Traditional Cache
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Forgotten Railways -Dunblane, Doune and Callander
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The cache is on one of the surviving metal bridges at Stockbridge over the Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railway. It is on a quite single track country road with nice views of the mountains. The railway track cutting can still be clearly seen.
This was the only railway in Britain to include all of the stations that it served in its title.
Construction was commenced in 1856, with Callander being reached in 1858.
The line had a junction immediately north of Dunblane station where the line met the Scottish Central Railway.
The line was all single track originally. The section between Dunblane and Doune was doubled in 1902 by the Caledonian Railway in anticipation of an increase in business. It remained double track until the 1950s. There had been plans to double the track as far as Callander, but by 1905 these plans had been dropped and the section between Doune and Callander remained single track until closure.
In 1865 the line was absorbed into Scottish Central Railway and then into the Caledonian Railway . The line was finally closed as part of the Beeching Cuts on 1 November 1965
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