Upper Tyndrum
Station 127Rudy visited Upper Tyndrum on
Saturday, 16th July 2022
arriving at 10:30 on a train from Glasgow Queen Street
Upper Tyndrum Station
Upper Tyndrum is on the West Highland Line and opened in 1894. It’s on the section from Crianlarich to Fort William and as the name suggests is high above the village of Tyndrum on a hill to the east & north.
Tyndrum has a population of less than 200 residents but has two train stations! For almost 60 years both were called simply “Tyndrum” until they received Upper and Lower suffixes in 1953 – it wasn’t until the late 1980s or early 1990s that the name Upper Tyndrum became official to easier distinguish the two stations on radio communications.
The station is just at the northwest edge of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park and the platform building is currently used as the headquarters of a gold mining company!
Upper Tyndrum is less than ten minutes beyond Crianlarich where the West Highland line diverges into the Oban and Fort William/Mallaig routes. Tyndrum is better served by Tyndrum Lower station with slightly more trains and easier walk to/from the village itself.
The station is unstaffed and there are no passenger toilets. An underpass and stairs lead onto the island platform but nearby Tyndrum Lower has step-free access.
