Dornoch Light Railway
Introduction
This light railway is closed. Passenger services are still provided by ScotRail between Wick, Thurso and Inverness.
Dates
| / /1898 | Dornoch Light Railway Dornoch Light Railway authorised. |
| 02/06/1902 | Dornoch Light Railway Dornoch Light Railway opened from The Mound (Sutherland Railway) to Dornoch. Andrew Carnegie spoke at the opening (he owned Skibo Castle at Skilbo near Dornoch). |
| 01/01/1923 | Dundee and Newtyle Railway Arbroath and Forfar Railway Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Caledonian Railway Glasgow and South Western Railway Callander and Oban Railway Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway Highland Railway Cathcart District Railway Killin Railway Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Committee Brechin and Edzell District Railway Dornoch Light Railway Wick and Lybster Light Railway Grouped into London, Midland and Scottish Railway. |
| 13/06/1960 | Dornoch Light Railway Dornoch to The Mound (excluded) closed to all traffic. The Mound closes to passengers. |
Locations along the line
These locations are along the line.
This was a two platform junction station - one platform on the main Far North Line (with a loop on its north side) opened in 1868 and a branch platform of 1902 (also with a loop, on its south side), located just to the south, on the closed Dornoch branch.
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See also
Sutherland Railway
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2016
David Bosher 17/06/2019
John Furnevel 31/08/2007
Ewan Crawford //1996
This was a single platform halt on the north side of a level crossing alongside Loch Fleet. The platform was on the south side of the line beside the road. To the immediate west was a road junction.
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Mark Bartlett 20/07/2016
Ewan Crawford //
John Furnevel 26/8/2007
This was a single platform station, with a siding and loading bank to the north, served from the east. The platform was on the south side of the line. The station was to the east of a level crossing.
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Ewan Crawford //1998
John Furnevel 26/08/2007
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2016
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More details
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2016
John Furnevel 26/08/2007
This was a terminus in the north of Dornoch. It was a single platform station with a locomotive shed on the east side of the line at the north end and a goods yard to the west of the passenger station. The platform was on the east side of the site alongside a rounding loop. Photographs of the station when open often show Dornoch Cathedral in the background, it was to the south of the station.
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John Furnevel 26/08/2007
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2016
John Furnevel 26/08/2007
