New Railway

GLASGOW HERALD. FRIDAY 11TH AUGUST 1882.

PROPOSED GARELOCH DISTRICT RAILWAY.

We understand that arrangements are in progress for the formation of a railway between Helensburgh, Garelochhead, and Portincaple on Loch Long. The undertaking is being promoted under influential auspices, and if carried into execution cannot fail to have an important effect in still further developing the picturesque districts bordering the Gareloch and Loch Long.

The new line starts from a junction with the North British Railway at a point near the new pier at Craigendoran, and sweeping round the high ground on the north-east of Helensburgh, it passes immediately behind the village of Row. Thence it proceeds past Shandon to Garelochhead, and crossing the narrow neck of land between the two lochs, it terminates at Portincaple.

The entire length of the line is about eleven and a quarter miles, and it is intended to have stations at Upper Helensburgh, Row, Shandon, and Garelochhead, while there will be a landing stage at Portincaple, forming a connection with the steamers which ply on Loch Long. To the residents on the Gareloch the new railway will be of inestimable benefit, bringing them, as it will do, into direct communication with Glasgow.

It will, in addition, be found a great convenience to passengers for Arrochar, Lochgoilhead and Inverarary, having the effect of shortening the time required for the journey between each of these places and Glasgow by upwards of an hour. It will also form a valuable link in various popular excursion routes – as, for example, to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, and Lochgoilhead and Inverarary.

Messrs Stuart & Philip, writers, Glasgow, represent the promoters, and the line has been surveyed by Mr T O Niven, CE, Glasgow, who has prepared plans and has certified that there are no engineering difficulties to prevent it being constructed at a very moderate cost.