Plockton railway station

Plockton railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Plockton in the Highlands, north-west Scotland. The station is now unstaffed.

Plockton
Scottish Gaelic: Am Ploc[1]
Plockton station
Location
Place	Plockton
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates	57.3336°N 5.6659°W / 57.3336; -5.6659
Grid reference	NG794329
Operations
Station code	PLK
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	12,826
2015/16	11,574
2016/17	9,998
2017/18	10,592
2018/19	11,482
History
Original company	Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMSR
2 November 1897[2]	Opened
Listed status
Listing grade	Category B
Entry number	LB6932[3]
Added to list	16 December 1986
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Plockton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station is 58 miles 22 chains (93.8 km) from Dingwall, and has a single platform which is long enough for a six-coach train.[4]

History

The station was built by the Kyle of Lochalsh Extension (Highland Railway) between Stromeferry and Kyle of Lochalsh, opening on 2 November 1897.[5]

The station building was built by the Highland Railway, and designed by engineer Murdoch Paterson. It was B-listed by Historic Scotland in 1986.[3] A camping coach was positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1956 to 1964, for the last two years a Pullman camping coach was used.[6]

The building was completely renovated during 2009/2010 and is now a privately owned self-catering holiday cottage.[7]

Services

Four trains each way call on weekdays/Saturdays and one each all year on Sundays, plus a second from May to late September only.[8]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Duncraig		Abellio ScotRail Kyle of Lochalsh Line		Duirinish

References

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt 1995, p. 186.
3. Historic Environment Scotland. "Plockton Railway Station  (Category B) (LB6932)". Retrieved 27 March 2019.
4. Brailsford 2017, map 22D.
5. "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.
6. McRae 1998, pp. 13 & 23.
7. "Welcome to 'Off the Rails' at Plockton Station". Plockton Station. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
8. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 239

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 (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.