Arisaig: Arisaig looking to Fort William. The station has had some attention and is looking much better than a few years ago.
Ewan Crawford 13/12/2018
Arisaig
Location type
StationName and dates
Arisaig (1901-)Station code: ARG National Rail ScotRail
Where: Highland, Scotland
Opened on the Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway).
Open on the West Highland Line.
Description
This is a two platform station with a passing loop. The original station buildings still stand, the larger on the down (Mallaig bound) platform. The signal box (closed in 1983 and 'B' listed) still stands at the Fort William end of the station on the northbound platform. The station is to the north of the village of Arisaig.
There is a goods siding serving a loading bank. It is now a permanent way siding, accessed from the down loop by reversal. There is no footbridge, crossing between the platforms is by barrow crossing.
A short camping coach siding was at the east end of the station, opposite the box.
A number of station cottages remain. The station has been severed from the village by the Arisaig bypass.
Arisaig station has been adopted by the Arisaig Community Trust .
North of the station the line crosses Keppoch Moss. The line 'floats' on brushwood over this bog, much like further south for the crossing of Rannoch Moor.
Arisaig Slip is down in the village by the sea. Summertime passenger ferry services operate to Eigg, Muck and Rum.
Local
The Traigh Golf Course , the most westerly on mainland Britain and with the small isles as a backdrop, is about two miles to the north.
Arisaig Hotel
Arisaig House is about two and a half miles to the east, closer to Beasdale station.
Arisaig Slip is down in the village by the sea. Summertime passenger ferry services operate to Eigg, Muck and Rum.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
06/01/2022
Facilities
Gaelic name: ÀrasaigListing: B
| Nearby stations Beasdale Morar Mallaig Lochailort Lech-a-vuie Platform Glenfinnan Locheilside Loch Eil Outward Bound Kyle of Lochalsh Corpach Kentallen Duror Fort William [1st] Fort William Banavie | Larichmore Viaduct Borrodale Viaduct Borrodale Tunnel Beasdale Bridge Beasdale No 119 Tunnel Morar Viaduct Beasdale No 118 Tunnel Loch nan Uamh No 117 Tunnel Tourist/other Arisaig Slip Creag Mhor Level Crossing Arisaig House Borrodale House Traigh Golf Course Camusdarrach House The Prince^s Cairn |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Furthest WestThis is the furthest west station in mainland Britain, approximately 12 miles further west than Penzance. Longitude
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Chronology Dates
| 30/03/1901 | West Highland Railway Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway) Banavie Junction [2nd], Banavie Canal Bridge, Tomonie Signal Box, Glenfinnan, Lochailort, Arisaig, Mallaig signal boxes opened. Banavie Junction [1st] signal box and junction renamed Mallaig Junction. |
| 01/04/1901 | Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway) Line opened from Banavie (Banavie Junction [2nd]), over the Caledonian Canal and on through Banavie, Corpach, Locheilside, Glenfinnan, Lochailort, Beasdale, Arisaig and Morar to Mallaig, extending the West Highland Railway to the western seaboard. There was no official opening ceremony. |
| 13/11/1983 | Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway) Arisaig signal box closed. |
| 29/04/1984 | Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway) Arisaig becomes a block post again. |
| 06/12/1987 | West Highland Railway Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway) RETB, based at the signalling centre at Banavie, comes into operation. Takes over Glenfinnan, Arisaig. Annat Signal Box reduced to gate box. |
| 05/03/2005 | West Highland Railway
Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway) Class 50s reach Mallaig on a Pathfinders tour for the first time (50031 Hood and 50049 Defiance). Arrived Fort William on the 4th, Mallaig on the 5th (having to run to Arisaig and back to pass a Sprinter due to its length before the return journey) and to Dundee from Fort William on the 6th. |
