Strathpeffer Branch (Highland Railway)
Introduction
This is closed. Passenger services are provided by ScotRail at nearby Dingwall to Inverness, Kyle of Lochalsh, Thurso and Wick.
Dates
| / /1885 | Strathpeffer Branch (Highland Railway) Strathpeffer [2nd] station built to design of Murdoch Paterson. |
| 01/06/1885 | Dingwall and Skye Railway Strathpeffer [1st] renamed Auchterneed for opening of Strathpeffer Branch (Highland Railway). |
| 03/06/1885 | Strathpeffer Branch (Highland Railway) Branch opens with one station, the Strathpeffer [2nd] terminus. |
| 23/02/1946 | Strathpeffer Branch (Highland Railway) Strathpeffer [2nd] branch closes to passengers (Alternative date: 2 March 1946). |
| 02/03/1946 | Strathpeffer Branch (Highland Railway) Strathpeffer [2nd] branch closes to passengers (Alternative date: 23 February 1946). |
| 26/03/1951 | Strathpeffer Branch (Highland Railway) Strathpeffer [2nd] to Dingwall (Fodderty Junction) closed to freight (complete closure). |
| /06/2018 | Strathpeffer Branch (Highland Railway) Proposal to built a narrow gauge line along trackbed by the Strathpeffer Spa Railway Association for £2.5M. |
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Fodderty to Strathpeffer
This was the junction between the Dingwall and Skye Railway and the 1885 branch to Strathpeffer. The town town had been, at its request, bypassed by the Dingwall and Skye Railway when it opened in 1870. With the tourist development of Strathpeffer as a Spa town a branch, approaching from the east, opened in 1885 from this junction, a little west of Dingwall.
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See also
Dingwall and Skye Railway
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John Gray 30/09/2000
John Gray 22/04/2018
Ewan Crawford 17/07/2004
John Gray 21/06/2015
This Second World War yard was laid out in the 'V' of Fodderty Junction. Its approach led off the Strathpeffer branch and it was approached from Fodderty Junction to the east.
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This was a single platform terminus. The former station still exists, today in use as a series of shops and units. The station served the spa town of Strathpeffer which was very popular with the Victorians, even giving rise to a dedicated express train to the town (the Strathpeffer Spa Express from Aviemore). The station building is a single storey in timber with a large glazed canopy over the ...
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Highland Hotel Strathpeffer
This hotel was built by the Highland Railway in the Strathpeffer Spa to the west of their Strathpeffer [2nd] terminus. It was designed by James Russell Burnett. The building is three storeys high with an attic, the overall appearance being Bavarian in style.
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