Lybster railway station

Lybster was a railway station located on the Wick and Lybster Railway in the Highland area of Scotland. The station building now serves as the clubhouse for the Lybster golf course

Lybster
Lybster railway station in 2008
Location	Lybster, Highland Scotland
Coordinates	58.3045°N 3.2841°W
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Wick and Lybster Railway
Pre-grouping	Wick and Lybster Railway operated by Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
1 July 1903	Open
3 April 1944	Closed

History

The station was opened as part of the Wick and Lybster Railway on 1 July 1903.[1]

The station had a loop, a goods yard with several sidings and a 1½ ton crane to the south of the passenger facilities and a turntable accessed from the goods yard.[2][3]

The station was host to a LMS caravan from 1937 to 1938.[4]

As with the other stations on the line, the station was closed from 3 April 1944.[1]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Terminus		Wick and Lybster Railway Operated by Highland Railway		Parkside Halt Station and Line closed

References

Notes

1. Butt (1995), p. 151
2. "Lybster station on OS 25inch map Caithness XXXIV.9 (Latheron)". National Library of Scotland. 1906. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
3. The Railway Clearing House (1970), p.351
4. McRae (1997), page 22

Sources

• 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.
• The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.

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.
• RAILSCOT on Wick and Lybster Railway