Location type

Station

Names and dates

Attadale (1875-1878)
Attadale Platform (1878-1938)
Attadale Halt (1938-1980)
Attadale (1980-)

Station code: ATT National Rail ScotRail
Where: Highland, Scotland
Opened on the Dingwall and Skye Railway.
Open on the Kyle Line.

Description

This is a very small station with a single platform. The original small timber building has been replaced with a concrete equivalent. The platform is on the south side of the line. From the platform there is rather a fine view of Loch Carron and the beach. There is no car park but there is space for a car or two to park in a layby by the station.

The station opened around 1875 as a private halt for Attadale House, once the home of the Mathesons of Jardine Matheson fame. It became a public station in 1878.

Historically there was a siding at the east end of the platform, served from the east and with a short headshunt. There was a signal box here, at the east end of the waiting room, from 1893, removed at some point. The siding was closed to goods in 1966 but not removed until 1979. The platform is on the south side of the line.

Attadale was proposed as a possible terminus of the line with a pier and large station with waiting and refreshment rooms. Fortunately this unsuitable location for a pier was not used (it would have needed considerable dredging or a very long pier) and the line was extended west to Stromeferry.

Until the building of the Stromeferry Bypass this was the end of the dirt road from Carron, with only the railway continuing on to the south west. The Avalanche Shelter to the south west dates from the extension of the road and its alterations to the established route of the railway.

(Dates of change of name from Attadale to Attadale Platform, to Attadale Halt, to Attadale uncertain.)

Local

Attadale Estate

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
09/05/2023

Facilities

Gaelic name: Atadal

Nearby stations Strathcarron Stromeferry Achnashellach Duncraig Plockton Duirinish Glencarron Kyle of Lochalsh Achnasheen Achanalt Lochluichart [2nd] Lochluichart Lochluichart [1st] Mallaig Garve	Attadale Bridge Avalanche Shelter Strome Ferry Shed Fernaig Bridge Tourist/other Attadale House Loch Carron North Strome Pier Strome Castle South Strome Pier Stromeferry Viewpoint Stromeferry Station Hotel Courthill House Balnacra Level Crossing Loch Dughaill Maol Chean-dearg
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.