Allangrange railway station

Allangrange
Location of the station (1997)
Location
Place Black Isle
Area Ross and Cromarty
Coordinates 57°31′59″N 4°19′49″W / 57.533°N 4.3302°W / 57.533; -4.3302Coordinates: 57°31′59″N 4°19′49″W / 57.533°N 4.3302°W / 57.533; -4.3302
Operations
Original company Highland Railway
Pre-grouping Highland Railway
Post-grouping LMSR
Platforms 1
History
1 February 1894 Station opened[1]
1 October 1951 Station closed to passengers[1]
13 June 1960[2] Line closed
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Closed railway stations in Britain
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Allangrange railway station was a station on the single track branch of the Highland Railway, in north east Scotland. The line connected villages in The Black Isle peninsula to the railway network via a junction at Muir of Ord.

History

Opened by the Highland Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by British Railways.

Authorisation was obtained on 4 July 1890 to build a 15.75 mile (25 km) branch line from Muir of Ord to Rosemarkie; however the line never proceeded beyond Fortrose.[3]

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Redcastle   Highland Railway
Fortrose Branch
   Munlochy

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Butt (1995)
  2. ↑ Passengers No More by G.Daniels and L.Dench- first edition- page 53
  3. ↑ Vallance, pages 44 - 45.

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.
  • 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.
  • Station on navigable O.S. map
  • Vallance, H.A. (1985). The Highland Railway. 4th Extended edition: extra material by C.R. Clinker and Anthony J. Lambert. Newton Abbot: David St John Thomas. ISBN 0-946537-24-0.
  • RAILSCOT article on the Fortrose Branch


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