Locheilside railway station

Locheilside National Rail
Scottish Gaelic: Taobh Loch Iall[1]
Location
Place Loch Eil
Local authority Highland
Coordinates 56°51′22″N 5°17′25″W / 56.8560°N 5.2903°W / 56.8560; -5.2903Coordinates: 56°51′22″N 5°17′25″W / 56.8560°N 5.2903°W / 56.8560; -5.2903
Grid reference NM994786
Operations
Station code LCS
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 488
2013/14 Increase 588
2014/15 Decrease 530
2015/16 Decrease 492
2016/17 Decrease 372
History
Original company Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
Pre-grouping North British Railway
Post-grouping LNER
1 April 1901 Station opened[2]
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Locheilside from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Locheilside railway station is a railway station on the northern shore of Loch Eil in the Highland Council Area of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line. Locheilside operates on a request stop basis.

Services

Four services call here each way on weekdays & Saturdays and one or three each way (depending on the time of year) on Sundays. These are mostly through trains between Mallaig & Glasgow Queen Street, through one each way only runs between Mallaig & Fort William.[3]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Loch Eil Outward Bound   Abellio ScotRail
West Highland Line		   Glenfinnan
  Historical railways  
Corpach
Line and Station open		   North British Railway
Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
   Glenfinnan
Line and Station open

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ↑ Butt (1995)
  3. ↑ Table 227 National Rail timetable, May 2016

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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