Thank you for your responses. No, the Sink Cottages are not the one's I'm looking for. The Railway Cottages were located at the entrance to Gartwinnie Farm as shown on the map in an earlier post. There can be no doubt about this. A railway line ran right past the entrance to the farm and a set of railway gates were located there. My great grandfather, grandfather and mother all lived there in No 1 cottage and my great grandfather was the railway gatekeeper there in his later years - all this is verified by census records and valuation rolls. Remnants of the railway gate posts are still there today (I took a Google Earth drive down Cadgers Loan to the entrance of Gartwinnie farm and saw them there but there is now no trace of the cottages). I have old photos of my grandfather and mother with the gates in the background but no photo of the Railway Cottages themselves hence this post. I have an RAF aerial photo of the area taken in 1946 which shows a structure at the location of the cottages shown on the map and after contacting Gartwinnie Farm, was advised they were there until about 1960 when I believe they were condemned and demolished (interesting from the Red Rows post that they were demolished in 1956). As stated, the location of the Railway Cottages is not in question but I would like more information about their history and photos of them for my family records. Shire/Council records and Stirling Archives may have information which I need to follow up. Thanks again and regards