Old Photographs Of Ardlui Argyll And Bute Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Ardlui, Scottish Gaelic, Àird Laoigh, a hamlet in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands. It is located at the head of Loch Lomond. It is on the A82 road between Crianlarich and Glasgow and Ardlui railway station is on the West Highland Line between Glasgow Queen Street and Oban or Fort William.The hotel at Ardlui was originally built by the local Colquhoun family estate in the early 1800s as a hunting lodge, becoming a hotel in 1886. From 1844 until the mid 1860s steamers called at Ardlui Pier and some continued up the River Falloch to reach Inverarnan at the New Garabal Landing and what is today known as the Drovers Inn via the Inverarnan Canal. Ardlui railway station opened to passengers on 7 August 1894 by the West Highland Railway, then run by the North British Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Due to subsidence the main station building, of the standard 'West Highland' design, had to be demolished around 1970 with an open waiting area built on to the signal box. Monday to Saturday, there are three services to Oban and Mallaig and one service to Fort William on Highland Caledonian Sleeper North bound. South bound, there are three services to Glasgow Queen Street and one service to London, England, Euston Station by Highland Caledonian Sleeper which does not run on Saturday. On Sundays, there is just one train northbound to Oban and Mallaig and two trains South Bound to Glasgow Queen Street and London Euston, England. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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