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t one time in the civil parish of Killin but now in Stirlingshire due to
local government reorganisation, Tyndrum is about five miles north of
Crianlarich on the Oban to Glencoe road. The landscape here is rugged and often
forbidding, which lends to the area a particular charm.
The Victorians, during the hey-day of railway, saw fit to connect the tiny village of Tyndrum to the national network and trains stopped at the little station on their way from Balquhidder and on to Killin. 
he land around Tyndrum (originally called Cliftown), once supported a
crofting community but the scattered population slowly gravitated toward the
village. The only visible evidence of this old way of life is the occasional
ruined croft perched on a hillside that may be glimpsed from the warmth and
comfort of the cars that pass by.
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