Lochailort railway station

Lochailort Scottish Gaelic: Loch Ailleart[1]
Looking towards Mallaig
Location	Lochailort, Highland Scotland
Coordinates	56°52′53″N 5°39′48″W / 56.8814°N 5.6634°W / 56.8814; -5.6634Coordinates: 56°52′53″N 5°39′48″W / 56.8814°N 5.6634°W / 56.8814; -5.6634
Grid reference	NM768826
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	LCL
History
Original company	Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
1 April 1901	Station opened
Passengers
2016/17	1,696
2017/18	1,844
2018/19	1,546
2019/20	1,586
2020/21	254
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Lochailort railway station is a railway station serving the village of Lochailort in the Highland Council area in Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line.

History[]

Lochailort station was opened on 1 April 1901 when the Mallaig Extension Railway opened.^[2][3]

The station was constructed with two platforms and was an electric token block post, working to Glenfinnan on one side and Arisaig on the other, until the Up loop was lifted in 1966. The loops were lengthened during the Second World War and a new brick signal box erected, the foundations of which now can still be seen at the Arisaig end of the single platform now in use. The original station buildings were of a similar design to those at Glenfinnan and Arisaig but fell into disrepair after de-staffing and were demolished during the 1970s.

A camping coach was positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1960 to 1965, the first year a standard camping coach was used, then it was replaced with a Pullman camping coach.^[4]

Services[]

Four services call here each way on weekdays and Saturdays and either one or three each way (depending on the time of year) on Sundays. These are mostly through trains between Mallaig and Glasgow Queen Street, through one each way only runs between Mallaig and Fort William.^[5]

See also[]

• Lech-a-Vuie Platform railway station

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Glenfinnan		Abellio ScotRail West Highland Line		Beasdale
	Historical railways
Glenfinnan Line and Station open		North British Railway Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway		Beasdale Line and Station open

References[]

Notes[]

Sources[]

• 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.
• McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
• Thomas, John; Turnock, David (1989). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 15 The North of Scotland (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-946537-03-8.

Further reading[]

• 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.

External links[]

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