Six Lochs Land Cruise
1965 Season
1965 was to be the last year with the line between Dunblane and Crainlarich scheduled to close from 1 November, the Oban passenger services being re-routed onto the West Highland section between Glasgow and Crainlarich. The closure would be brought forward a few weeks due to a rock fall in Glen Ogle.
The rear page of the Advance Information booklet, scan courtesy of John Paton
The Six Lochs tour also appeared in the Glasgow "Bargain Travel Facilities" brochure.
This year they again departed from Glasgow Queen Street rather than Buchanan Street.
The table shows only the known tours. I haven't been able to get hold of the other pages of the "Advance Information" booklet, so all the additional non-Glagow tours are not listed:
| No. | Date | From | Direction | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon 3 May | Grangemouth | Anti-clockwise | Met-Camm 2-car and Derby 3-car |
| Images: see notes below | ||||
| 2 | Sun 23 May | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 3 | Sun 30 May | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 4 | Sun 6 June | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 5 | Sun 13 June | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 6 | Sun 20 June | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 7 | Sun 27 June | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 8 | Sun 4 July | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 9 | Sun 11 July | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 10 | Sun 18 July | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 11 | Sun 25 July | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 12 | Sun 1 August | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 13 | Sun 8 August | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 14 | Sun 15 August | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 15 | Sun 22 August | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 16 | Sun 29 August | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
| 17 | Sun 5 September | Glasgow Queen Street | Anti-clockwise | |
Photographs
The flickr pages of "Ernies Railway Archive" contain four images by JM Boyes of a tour from Grangemouth using a three-car 107 and two-car 101. Two, at Strathyre, Glenoglehead, noted as May 3rd (a Monday) and two at Crainlarich (one, two) dated as May 30th (a Sunday). I suspect all were from the first date as the normal pattern of tours from Grangemouth in previous years was on the Monday May Day holiday then not again till July.