Achallader Viaduct: A Sprinter heading south above Loch Tulla. A minute before it was snowing, a minute later it was sunny then the snow flurries started again ...
Ewan Crawford 25/04/2017
Bridge of Orchy
Location type
StationName and dates
Bridge of Orchy (1894-)Station code: BRO National Rail ScotRail
Where: Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Opened on the West Highland Railway.
Open on the West Highland Line.
Description
This is an island platform station in the West Highland Swiss Chalet style. At the south end of the platform is the disused signal box, closed 1985, which is 'B' listed. The station master's house and railwaymen's cottage also survive. Entry to the station is by a subway.
The goods yard also remains on the east side. It is accessed from the south and is at at a slightly higher level. The sidings remain in use as a permanent way depot.
Going north Bridge of Orchy is the last station before the line heads into Rannoch Moor, taking a route which is not shadowed by a parallel road as it heads north east across the moorland to Rannoch station.
The stationmaster's house and a railway cottage remain standing, in use as private houses.
West Highland Way Sleeper bunkhouse is based in the station building.
A former railway cottage provides self catering accommodation. Taransay Cottage
Local
Just to the west of the station is Bridge of Orchy Hotel .
The West Highland Way passes close by the station. This can be followed north to Kinlochleven and Fort William. The route makes use of a former coach road. To the south the route reaches Tyndrum close to Tyndrum Lower.
Tags
Station West Highland WayExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
Facilities
Gaelic name: Drochaid UrchaidhListing: B
| Nearby stations Tyndrum [1st] Tyndrum Lower Upper Tyndrum Gorton [WHR] Crianlarich Lower Crianlarich Loch Dochart [Private] Dalmally Glen Falloch Platform Luib Loch Awe Rannoch Ardlui Killin Junction Falls of Cruachan | Lineside Cottage Horseshoe Viaduct Achallader Viaduct Lineside Cottage Achallader Lineside Cottage Gleann Viaduct Tourist/other Rob Roy^s Putting Stone Beinn Dorain Inveroran Inn Beinn an Dothaidh Loch Tulla Duncan Ban MacIntyre Monument [Inveroran] Beinn Achaladair South Peak Easan Dubha [Glen Orchy] Achallader Castle |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Bridge over the River OrchyThe bridge over the River Orchy is west of Bridge of Orchy station, over the A82, on the course of the Military Way built around 1751 by soldiers under the command of Major Caulfeild. This military road connected Tyndrum to Fort William. The bridge has a single arch over the river. It no longer carries a main road, the route having been moved to the east in the 1930s. This has left the road from Bridge of Orchy to Inveroran as a dead end, the route on to the north via the Black Mount and Ba Bridge to be used by the West Highland Way. |
