Locheilside railway station
Locheilside railway station is a railway station on the northern shore of Loch Eil in the Highland Council Area of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line. Locheilside operates on a request stop basis.
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| General information | |
| Location | Loch Eil, Highland Scotland |
| Coordinates | 56.8560°N 5.2903°W |
| Grid reference | NM994786 |
| Managed by | ScotRail |
| Platforms | 1 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | LCS |
| 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 |  372 |
| 2017/18 | 300 |
| 2018/19 |  396 |
| 2019/20 | 508 |
| 2020/21 | 84 |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
History
Locheilside station opened on 1 April 1901.[2]
The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939.[3]
Services
Four services call here each way on weekdays & Saturdays and two or three each way (depending on the time of year) on Sundays. These are mostly through trains between Mallaig & Glasgow Queen Street, though one each way only runs between Mallaig & Fort William.[4]
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Loch Eil Outward Bound | ScotRail West Highland Line |
Glenfinnan | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Corpach Line and Station open |
North British Railway Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway |
Glenfinnan Line and Station open | ||
References
Notes
- Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
- Butt (1995)
- McRae (1997), page 11
- Table 227 National Rail timetable, May 2016
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 (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
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.
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