Plockton railway station

Plockton railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Plockton in the Highlands, north-west Scotland. The station is now unstaffed.

Plockton Scottish Gaelic: Am Ploc[1]
Plockton station
Location	Plockton, Highland Scotland
Coordinates	57.3336°N 5.6659°W
Grid reference	NG794329
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	PLK
History
Original company	Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMSR
Key dates
2 November 1897[2]	Opened
Passengers
2015/16	11,574
2016/17	9,998
2017/18	10,592
2018/19	11,482
2019/20	11,616
Listed Building – Category B
Designated	16 December 1986
Reference no.	LB6932[3]
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station is 58 miles 22 chains (93.8 km) from Dingwall, and has a single platform which is long enough for a six-coach train.[4]

History

The station was built by the Kyle of Lochalsh Extension (Highland Railway) between Stromeferry and Kyle of Lochalsh, opening on 2 November 1897.[5]

The station building was built by the Highland Railway, and designed by engineer Murdoch Paterson. It was B-listed by Historic Scotland in 1986.[3] A camping coach was positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1956 to 1964, for the last two years a Pullman camping coach was used.[6]

The building was completely renovated during 2009/2010 and is now a privately owned self-catering holiday cottage.[7]

Services

Four trains each way call on weekdays/Saturdays and one each all year on Sundays, plus a second from May to late September only.[8]

References

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt 1995, p. 186.
3. Historic Environment Scotland. "Plockton Railway Station  (Category B Listed Building) (LB6932)". Retrieved 27 March 2019.
4. Brailsford 2017, map 22D.
5. "Railways in the Western Highlands. Opening of New Kyle Extension". Glasgow Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 3 November 1897. Retrieved 15 August 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
6. McRae 1998, pp. 13 & 23.
7. "Welcome to 'Off the Rails' at Plockton Station". Plockton Station. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
8. 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.
• 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.