Category for the Stations articles (now posts) linked to from the West Highland Map (top menu: The Line)
Gorton is not a station on the line and never was available for public use. It is situated half way between Bridge of Orchy and Rannoch stations. It is a remote location with a passing loop which originally housed a signal box and accommodation for the signal man and his…
Garelochhead (Cean a’ Ghearrloch) is located at the head of the Gare Loch which is connected to the Firth of Clyde between the Roseneath peninsula and the town of Helensburgh. The Gare Loch has had a long history of involvement with the navy and is currently the the UK’s nuclear…
Helensburgh Upper is now the first station on the West Highland Line after it diverges from the electrified Glasgow suburban rail network. Originally the line ‘officially’ started at Craigendoran Upper station which had an island platform until closure in 1964. The Station has a very unprepossessing entrance and can be…
Click here Arrochar and Tarbet station is between the villages of Tarbet (an Tairbeart) and Arrochar. Tarbet, half a mile from the station, is on the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, Scotland’s largest freshwater loch by surface area. On the other side of the loch lies Ben Lomond, Scotland’s most…
Tyndrum (Taigh an Droma) Tyndrum is a small village which has developed as a popular tourist stop because of its strategic position where the road to Oban branches off the A82 Glasgow to Inverness trunk road. It is also unusual, for such a small community, to be provided with two…
Click here Upper Tyndrum station, on the Glasgow-Fort William line, is situated high above the village. (It was renamed from “Tyndrum Upper” to avoid confusion with “Tyndrum Lower” station on the Glasgow-Oban line). It is unstaffed and less frequently used because of its location with access via a steep and narrow…
Mallaig is the terminus of the West Highland line extension, opened in 1901, and is situated on a rocky hillside beside the Sound of Sleat with views (and CalMac ferries) across the sea to Skye and the Small Islands (Eigg, Rum, Muck and Canna). There is also a ferry from…
Morar is famous for its white sandy beaches – ‘The Silver Sands of Morar’. Morar Station’s rail approach is made by crossing the A830 Fort William to Mallaig road. It is home to West Word newspaper. The level crossing signs can be viewed in the above picture.…
Arisaig is Britain’s most westerly station. A summer ferry service sails daily from the marina to the Small Islands of Eigg, Rum and Muck (MV Sheerwater). There is a hotel with restaurant/bar, a shop, a post office and a café in the village. Arisaig Bay, Loch na Ceall, is…
Beasdale is a request stop that was originally a private halt built to serve the nearby Arisaig House. Its former station building is no longer in railway use but is maintained as a holiday home. Beasdale marks a reprieve for locomotives (particularly for driver and fireman in the days of…
