Roy Bridge railway station

Roy Bridge railway station is a railway station serving the village of Roybridge in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line.

Roy Bridge
Scottish Gaelic: Drochaid Ruaidh[1]
Location
PlaceRoybridge
Local authorityHighland
Coordinates56.8884°N 4.8376°W / 56.8884; -4.8376
Grid referenceNN272810
Operations
Station codeRYB
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 4,520
2015/16 4,172
2016/17 3,556
2017/18 3,712
2018/19 3,742
History
7 August 1894Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Roy Bridge from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

This station opened by the West Highland Railway on 7 August 1894.[2]

The station was originally a two platform station, with sidings to the north.[3]

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1935 to 1939.[4] A camping coach was also positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1952 to 1960.[5]

The station is now a single platform.[6] The up loop was removed in 1966. The main station buildings and signal box were both located on the up side and were demolished after closure and de-manning.

Services

Mondays to Saturdays, the station is served by three Scotrail trains per day in each direction, northbound to Mallaig and southbound to Glasgow Queen Street, along with the Highland Caledonian Sleeper between London Euston and Fort William via Edinburgh Waverley (the latter doesn't run southbound on Saturdays or northbound on Sundays). Sundays see just one train per day call each all year round, with a second in the summer months only (May - October) and the southbound sleeper.[7]

The sleeper also carries seated coaches and can thus be used by regular passengers from/to Glasgow (Queen St Low Level) and Edinburgh. The sleeper calls at Roy Bridge by request only.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Tulloch   Abellio ScotRail
West Highland Line		   Spean Bridge
Tulloch   Caledonian Sleeper
Highland Caledonian Sleeper		   Spean Bridge

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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Quick, Michael (2019) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF) (5th ed.). Railway and Canal Historical Society.
  3. "Roy Bridge station on OS 25inch map Inverness-shire - Mainland Sheet CXLI (includes: Kilmonivaig)". National Library of Scotland. 1903. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  4. McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 11. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
  5. 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. p. 28. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
  6. Yonge, John (2001). Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams: Scotland and the Isle of Man (4th ed.). Quail Map Company. p. 21E. ISBN 1-898319-51-0.
  7. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 227 (Network Rail)

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