Locheilside railway station

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.

Locheilside
Scottish Gaelic: Taobh Loch Iall[1]
Location
Place	Loch Eil
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates	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*
2014/15	530
2015/16	492
2016/17	372
2017/18	300
2018/19	396
History
Original company	Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
1 April 1901	Station 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 Locheilside from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

Locheilside station opened on 1 April 1901.[2]

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939.[3]

Services

Four services call here each way on weekdays & Saturdays and two 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.[4]

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. McRae (1997), page 11
4. 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.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.
• McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.

Further reading

• 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 Mallaig Extension Railway