Location type

Station

Names and dates

Ballachulish (1903-1905)
Ballachulish and Glencoe (1905-1908)
Ballachulish (Glencoe) (1908-1966)

Opened on the Ballachulish Branch (Callander and Oban Railway).

Description

This was a two platform terminus opened at East Laroch next to the Ballachulish Slate Quarries and their tramways. Unusually a house which predated the station ended up on the platform and now, with the station gone, still stands. The Ballachulish Medical Practise is based in the former station building.

The goods yard was to the north of the passenger station and a locomotive shed was just to the north of the yard. Bauxite traffic for the Kinlochleven Smelter was handled. A tightly curved siding ran from the goods yard to a pier at Rudha na Glas-lice (the pier still exists in other uses). There was interchange with the narrow gauge quarry lines.

A ferry service continued east to Kinlochleven, replaced by a road built by German Prisoners of War in the Great War.

The large signal box was at the west end of the northern station platform. The passenger line ran in front of the box, to the south, and goods yard line to its north. The box was of the large size typical of the line.

The line closed to goods in 1965, the yard headshunt being removed just in advance of closure, and the line closed completely in 1966.

The name 'Ballachulish' applies to the area, generally west of the station, on both the north and south banks of Loch Etive. Ballachulish House is to the west, south of Ballachulish Ferry station. It was the station which led to West and East Laroch becoming known as the village of Ballachulish. Glen Coe is to the east.

Tags

Terminus Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map

Nearby stations Ballachulish Ferry Kentallen Duror Fort William [1st] Fort William Creagan Corpach Banavie Banavie Pier Appin Barcaldine Halt Loch Eil Outward Bound Locheilside Spean Bridge Benderloch	Ballachulish Shed Ballachulish Slate Quarries West Laroch Siding Ballachulish Bridge Ardsheal Quarry Tourist/other Laroch Harbour Ballachulish St John^s Church Glencoe Folk Museum Sgorr Bhan North Ballachulish Slip South Ballachulish Slip Ballachulish House Sgorr Dearg Ballachulish Pier Beinn a^Bheithir - Sgorr Dhonuill
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.