Lairg railway station

Lairg National Rail
Scottish Gaelic: Luirg[1]
The view northward in 2009
Location
Place Lairg
Local authority Highland
Coordinates 58°00′07″N 4°23′59″W / 58.0019°N 4.3998°W / 58.0019; -4.3998Coordinates: 58°00′07″N 4°23′59″W / 58.0019°N 4.3998°W / 58.0019; -4.3998
Grid reference NC582039
Operations
Station code LRG
Managed by Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 6,176
2013/14 Increase 7,440
2014/15 Increase 7,514
2015/16 Decrease 6,592
2016/17 Decrease 5,576
History
Original company Sutherland Railway
Pre-grouping Highland Railway
Post-grouping LMSR
28 July 1874 Open
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lairg from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal
Lairg station in September 1973, with a postbus waiting.

Lairg railway station is a railway station just south of the village of Lairg in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line. It is 66 miles 78 chains (107.8 km) from Inverness, and has a passing loop 26 chains (520 m) long, flanked by two platforms. Platform 1 on the up (southbound) line can accommodate trains having six coaches, but platform 2 on the down (northbound) line can only hold five.[2]

Until April 2009 the station provided an interchange point for postbus services to the remote communities of Durness, Kinlochbervie and Tongue, Highland. Following considerable local opposition to the cancellation of the services they have now been replaced by temporary services operated, under contract from the Highland Council, by Stagecoach plc. The future of the services has yet to be determined.

Highland Rail Partnership is based in the former booking office.

Services

Four Inverness to Wick via Thurso trains call here each way on weekdays and Saturdays (along with a fifth Inverness departure southbound in the early morning) and a single departure each way on Sundays.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
  2. ↑ Brailsford 2017, map 20A.
  3. ↑ Table 239 National Rail timetable, May 2016
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Invershin   Abellio ScotRail
Far North Line		   Rogart


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