Duirinish railway station

Duirinish railway station is a remote railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line near the settlement of Duirinish in the Highlands, northern Scotland. Duirinish is 2 miles (3 km) inland of Scotland's west coast, near Loch Lundie.

Duirinish
Scottish Gaelic: Diùranais[1]
Location
PlaceDuirinish
Local authorityHighland
Coordinates57.3199°N 5.6915°W / 57.3199; -5.6915
Grid referenceNG777314
Operations
Station codeDRN
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 1,048
2015/16 1,064
2016/17 930
2017/18 918
2018/19 856
History
Original companyDingwall and Skye Railway
Pre-groupingHighland Railway
Post-groupingLMS
2 November 1897Opened[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 Duirinish from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station is 59 miles 58 chains (96.1 km) from Dingwall, and has a single platform which is long enough for a four-coach train.[3]

History

The station was built by the Kyle of Lochalsh Extension (Highland Railway) between Stromeferry and Kyle of Lochalsh, opening on 2 November 1897.[4]

Services

Four trains each way call (on request) on weekdays/Saturdays and one each all year on Sundays, plus a second from May to late September only.[5]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Plockton   Abellio ScotRail
Kyle of Lochalsh Line		   Kyle of Lochalsh
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References

Notes
  1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. Butt (1995), p. 84
  3. Brailsford 2017, map 22D.
  4. "Railways in the Western Highlands. Opening of New Kyle Extension". Glasgow Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 3 November 1897. Retrieved 15 August 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 239

Sources
  • Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.
  • 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.
  • 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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