Duirinish railway station

Duirinish Scottish Gaelic: Diùranais[1]
Location	Duirinish, Highland Scotland
Coordinates	57°19′12″N 5°41′29″W / 57.3199°N 5.6915°W / 57.3199; -5.6915Coordinates: 57°19′12″N 5°41′29″W / 57.3199°N 5.6915°W / 57.3199; -5.6915
Grid reference	NG777314
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	DRN
History
Original company	Dingwall and Skye Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
2 November 1897	Opened[2]
Passengers
2016/17	930
2017/18	918
2018/19	856
2019/20	878
2020/21	156
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Duirinish railway station is a remote railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line near the settlement of Duirinish in the Highlands, northern Scotland. Duirinish is 2 miles (3 km) inland of Scotland's west coast, near Loch Lundie.

The station is 59 miles 58 chains (96.1 km) from Dingwall, and has a single platform which is long enough for a four-coach train.^[3]

History[]

The station was built by the Kyle of Lochalsh Extension (Highland Railway) between Stromeferry and Kyle of Lochalsh, opening on 2 November 1897.^[4]

Services[]

Four trains each way call (on request) on weekdays/Saturdays and one each all year on Sundays, plus a second from May to late September only.^[5]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Plockton		Abellio ScotRail Kyle of Lochalsh Line		Kyle of Lochalsh

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Sources[]

• Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.
• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

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