Lochluichart railway station


Lochluichart railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Lochluichart in the north of Scotland. Lochluichart is located at the north edge of Loch Luichart.
The station is from, and has a single platform which is long enough for a three-coach train.

History

The station was opened as Lochluichart High by the Dingwall and Skye Railway on 1 August 1871 as a private station for Lady Ashburnton on the Lochluichart Estate. Became a public station by 1887.
In 1949 Lochluichart was planned to be relocated to allow the flooding of the area by the Glascarnoch-Luichart-Torr Achilty hydroelectric scheme. On 3 May 1954 a new station was opened as Lochluichart as a result of a hydro electric scheme raising the level of Loch Luichart, constructed of red sandstone. The deviation required about on stone-pitched embankments and in rock cuttings, a bridge over the River Conon and a bridge.

Services

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