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.

Locheilside Scottish Gaelic: Taobh Loch Iall[1]
Location	Loch Eil, Highland Scotland
Coordinates	56.8560°N 5.2903°W
Grid reference	NM994786
Managed by	Abellio 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
2015/16	492
2016/17	372
2017/18	300
2018/19	396
2019/20	508
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]

References

Notes

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt (1995)
3. McRae (1997), page 11
4. 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. 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.

External links

• RAILSCOT on Mallaig Extension Railway