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
Place	Duirinish
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates	57.3199°N 5.6915°W / 57.3199; -5.6915
Grid reference	NG777314
Operations
Station code	DRN
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	1
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 company	Dingwall and Skye Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
2 November 1897	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 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

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.

External links

• RAILSCOT on Dingwall and Skye Railway
• RAILSCOT on Kyle of Lochalsh Extension (Highland Railway)