Achanalt railway station

Achanalt National Rail
Scottish Gaelic: Achadh nan Allt[1]
Location
Place Achanalt
Local authority Highland
Coordinates 57°36′35″N 4°54′49″W / 57.6096°N 4.9135°W / 57.6096; -4.9135Coordinates: 57°36′35″N 4°54′49″W / 57.6096°N 4.9135°W / 57.6096; -4.9135
Grid reference NH260614
Operations
Station code AAT
Managed by Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms 1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Increase 164
2013/14 Increase 228
2014/15 Increase 482
2015/16 Decrease 312
2016/17 Increase 424
History
Original company Dingwall and Skye Railway
Pre-grouping Highland Railway
Post-grouping LMSR
19 August 1870[2] Station opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Achanalt from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Achanalt railway station is a remote railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Achanalt in the north of Scotland.

The station is 21 miles 34 chains (34.5 km) from Dingwall, and has a single platform which is long enough for a three-coach train.[3] It is the least used station on the line.

History

The station was opened by the Dingwall and Skye Railway, but operated from the outset by the Highland Railway. Taken into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, the line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced by British Rail, the station became part of ScotRail until the Privatisation of British Rail.

Service

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.[4]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Lochluichart   Abellio ScotRail
Kyle of Lochalsh Line		   Achnasheen
  Historical railways  
Lochluichart (Old)
Line open; Station closed		   Highland Railway
Dingwall and Skye Railway
   Achnasheen
Line and Station open

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ↑ Butt (1995)
  3. ↑ Brailsford 2017, map 22F.
  4. ↑ 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 (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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