Culrain railway station

Culrain railway station serves the village of Culrain on the Kyle of Sutherland in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is located on the Far North Line. It is 61 miles 0 chains (98.2 km) from Inverness, and has a single platform which is long enough for a five-coach train. The railway line through Culrain is single track, with the nearest passing loop to the north being at Lairg and to the south at Ardgay.[3]

Culrain
Scottish Gaelic: Cùil Rathain[1]
Culrain station with students who stayed at Carbisdale Castle waiting for the train in 1996
Location
PlaceCulrain
Local authorityHighland
Coordinates57.9196°N 4.4045°W / 57.9196; -4.4045
Grid referenceNH576947
Operations
Station codeCUA
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 530
2015/16 432
2016/17 372
2017/18 300
2018/19 280
History
Original companySutherland Railway
Pre-groupingHighland Railway
Post-groupingLMSR
1871[2]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 Culrain from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
Station nameboard now preserved at the Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway

The station is close to Carbisdale Castle, which operated from 1945 to 2011 as a youth hostel owned by the Scottish Youth Hostels Association. The hostel has been closed since 2011 as a result of structural damage. Following its sale to a consortium in 2016,[4] planning permission was granted in 2017/2018 to turn the castle back into a private residence but now with swimming pool.[5]

Services

Timetable changes in December 2008 increased the number of trains through Culrain. On Mondays to Saturdays, there are four trains a day southbound to Inverness and northbound to Wick. On Sundays, there is one train in each direction.

In December 2013 it became a request stop.[6]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Ardgay   Abellio ScotRail
Far North Line		   Invershin
  Historical railways  
Bonar Bridge
Line and Station open		   Highland Railway
Sutherland Railway
   Invershin
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References

Notes
  1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. Butt 1995, p. 74.
  3. Brailsford 2017, map 20D.
  4. "Buyer found for Carbisdale Castle". BBC News. 23 September 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  5. Butlin, Heather. "Planning permission". www.highland.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  6. "Expanded train services from December 2013". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013.

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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • 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.


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