Lochluichart railway station

Lochluichart railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Lochluichart in the north of Scotland. Lochluichart is located at the north edge of Loch Luichart.

Lochluichart Scottish Gaelic: Loch Laoicheart[1]
Location	Lochluichart, Highland Scotland
Coordinates	57.6218°N 4.8091°W
Grid reference	NH323625
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	LCC
History
Original company	Dingwall and Skye Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
1 August 1871	Opened as Lochluichart High[2]
3 May 1954	Resited and renamed as 'Lochluichart[2]
Passengers
2015/16	608
2016/17	532
2017/18	632
2018/19	180
2019/20	198
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station is 17 miles 20 chains (27.8 km) from Dingwall, and has a single platform which is long enough for a three-coach train.[3]

History

The station was opened as Lochluichart High[2] by the Dingwall and Skye Railway on 1 August 1871 as a private station for Lady Ashburnton on the Lochluichart Estate. Became a public station by 1887.[4]

In 1949 Lochluichart was planned to be relocated to allow the flooding of the area by the Glascarnoch-Luichart-Torr Achilty hydroelectric scheme.[5] On 3 May 1954 a new station was opened as Lochluichart[2] as a result of a hydro electric scheme raising the level of Loch Luichart, constructed of red sandstone. The deviation required about 2-mile (3.2 km) on stone-pitched embankments and in rock cuttings, a 100-foot (30 m) bridge over the River Conon and a 36-foot (11 m) bridge.[6]

Services

Four trains each way call (on request) on weekdays/Saturdays and one each way all year on Sundays, plus a second from May to late September only.[7]

References

Notes

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt (1995), page 147
3. Brailsford 2017, map 22F.
4. Private and Untimetabled Railway Stations by G.Croughton page 96
5. "A Station To Be Moved". Dundee Courier. Scotland. 6 May 1949. Retrieved 15 November 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
6. Cooke, B.W.C., ed. (June 1954). "Re-Siting of Lochluichart Station". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 100 no. 638. Westminster: Tothill Press. p. 432.
7. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 239

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.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• 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.

External links

• "Lochluichart station on navigable O.S. map".
• "Dingwall and Skye Railway". RailScot. Retrieved 2 February 2011.