Base Camp
Location type
PlaceName and dates
Base Camp (1925-1939)Opened on the Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway.
Description
This was Balfour, Beatty & Co Ltd's construction camp for the Lochaber Aluminium Works, its pier, hydro scheme, penstocks, long distance water pipes and dams of Loch Treig and Loch Laggan. The construction railway, the considerable Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway ran to the work sites and there were sidings serving the depot which came from the West Highland Railway.
Tags
Construction camp| Nearby stations Banavie Banavie Pier Fort William Fort William [1st] Corpach Loch Eil Outward Bound Gairlochy Spean Bridge Locheilside Roy Bridge Invergloy Platform Ballachulish (Glencoe) Ballachulish Ferry Kentallen Glenfinnan | Lochaber Aluminium Works Lochaber Aluminium Smelter Ground Frame Tom-na-Faire Depot Lochy Viaduct [Fort William] Lochaber Smelter Shed Bridge 53 Pipes D, E Bridge 52 Pipes A, B, C Lochaber Carbon Factory Inverlochy Footbridge Fort William Junction Yard Fort William Junction Tourist/other Old Inverlochy Castle Inverlochy Farm Level Crossing Ben Nevis Distillery Tom na Faire Viewpoint |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
