Corpach railway station

Corpach railway station is a railway station serving the village of Corpach in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line.

Corpach

Scottish Gaelic: A' Chorpaich[1]
Corpach level crossing
LocationCorpach, Highland
Scotland
Coordinates56.8428°N 5.1221°W / 56.8428; -5.1221
Grid referenceNN096767
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeCPA
History
Original companyMallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
Pre-groupingNorth British Railway
Post-groupingLNER
Key dates
1 April 1901Station opened[2]
Passengers
2015/16 2,762
2016/17 2,518
2017/18 2,632
2018/19 2,814
2019/20 2,798
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

Corpach station opened on 1 April 1901.[2] It has one platform, on the north side of the railway.[3][4] Loch Eil lies immediately to the south of the station.

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939.[5] A camping coach was also positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1961 to 1969, the coach was a Pullman camping coach until 1964 and a standard one thereafter, all camping coaches in the region were withdrawn at the end of the 1969 season.[6]

Services

Three services call here each way on weekdays & Saturdays and two or three (depending on the time of year) on Sundays. These are mostly through trains between Mallaig and Glasgow Queen Street, though one way only runs between Mallaig and Fort William which then connects to the sleeper to London Euston[7]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Banavie   Abellio ScotRail
West Highland Line		   Loch Eil Outward Bound
  Historical railways  
Banavie
Line and Station open		   North British Railway
Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
   Locheilside
Line and Station open

References

Notes
  1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. Butt (1995)
  3. "Corpach station on OS six-inch map Inverness-shire - Mainland Sheet CL (includes: Ardgour; Kilmallie)". National Library of Scotland. 1959. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. "Corpach". National Rail Enquiries. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  5. McRae (1997), page 11
  6. McRae (1998), pages 28 & 29
  7. 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). Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 11. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
  • McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.

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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