Strathcarron railway station

Strathcarron railway station is a remote railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the small village of Strathcarron and the larger village of Lochcarron in the Highlands, northern Scotland.

Strathcarron
Scottish Gaelic: Srath Carrann[1]
Location
PlaceStrathcarron
Local authorityHighland
Coordinates57.4228°N 5.4286°W / 57.4228; -5.4286
Grid referenceNG942421
Operations
Station codeSTC
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 8,262
2015/16 8,162
2016/17 7,678
2017/18 7,742
2018/19 6,970
History
Original companyDingwall and Skye Railway
Pre-groupingHighland Railway
Post-groupingLMSR
19 August 1870[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 Strathcarron from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History
Strathcarron station, August 1980

The station was built by Murdoch Paterson between 1869 and 1870.[3] The station was opened to passengers on 19 August 1870 by the Dingwall and Skye Railway. The lattice-girder footbridge was built by the Rose Street Foundry in 1900.

Current use

The station is 45 miles 74 chains (73.9 km) from Dingwall, and has a passing loop 19 chains (380 m) long, flanked by two platforms which can each accommodate a three-coach train.[4]

One of the Kyle line's three passing loops is located at the station (and trains are sometimes scheduled to cross here), though the Radio Electronic Token Block signalling system used is remotely supervised from Inverness. The Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) was installed by British Rail.

Four trains per day each way call at the station Mon-Sat, with two each way on summer Sundays and a single service each way on Sundays in the winter months.[5]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Achnashellach   Abellio ScotRail
Kyle of Lochalsh Line		   Attadale
gollark: It dispenses scrapboxes, which is meant to produce random items, but I only get... wooden hoes.
gollark: The Wooden Hoe Generator!
gollark: In extreme hills.
gollark: Stone brick/cobble monster eggs.
gollark: I mean completely. They spawn naturally and hide in monster eggs, you know.

References
  1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. Butt 1995, p. 222.
  3. The Buildings of Scotland: Highlands: John Gifford. Yale University Press 2003. ISBN 0300096259 p.523
  4. Brailsford 2017, map 22E.
  5. 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.


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