Old Photographs Of Whistlefield Argyll And Bute Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Whistlefield, a hamlet on the east shore of Loch Eck on the Cowal Peninsula, Argyll and Bute. It is home to the Whistlefield Inn, which was established in 1663, though it has now closed.The hamlet is within the Argyll Forest Park which, is itself part of the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. Whistlefield, later Whistlefield Halt, was a minor railway station on the West Highland Line 10 miles from Craigendoran Junction railway station near the hamlet of Portincaple on Loch Long, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Opened in 1896 by the West Highland Railway, it was built on a single track section without a passing loop in between Garelochhead and Glen Douglas and closed by the British Railways Board in 1964.

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