Clachnaharry
Location type
StationName and dates
Clachnaharry (1868-1913)Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Inverness and Ross-shire Railway.
Description
This station was west of Clachnaharry Swing Bridge. It was a single platform with the platform on the south side of the single track line. Clachnaharry was not just the station for the small village and nearby sea lock of the Caledonian Canal but was also the ticket platform for Inverness for trains arriving from the north.
The station closed in 1913.
The line west was originally single track. Doubling to Clunes was completed in 1913-14. The Act for the doubling was passed in 1901 and the line was doubled to the west in stages. Originally this started directly west of the station, and east of the road bridge, running west as gauntleted track until beyond the bridge where it doubled. This was altered in 1924 with the gauntleting removed and the double track started in a conventional manner just west of the road bridge. It was reduced to a single track in 1966.
The platform remained until 1946.
The railway remains open.
Tags
Station gauntleted02/12/2023
| Nearby stations Inverness Harbour [Station] Inverness Innes Street Ticket Platform Inverness Bunchrew Ness Islands Railway Lentran Allangrange Munlochy Allanfearn Redcastle Clunes Avoch Castle Stuart Platform Daviot Culloden Moor | Clachnaharry Swing Bridge Canal Junction [Inverness] MOW Carse Sidings US Base 18 Loco Shed Muirtown Basin Bruichnain Loop US Base 18 Sidings Thornbush Shipyard Tourist/other Clachnaharry Beacon Witch^s Coffin Merkinch Local Nature Reserve US Naval Base 18 Glen-Albyn Distillery Glenmhor Distillery South Kessock Pier |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1822 | Caledonian Canal Canal opened from Corpach (Loch Linnhe on the West Coast) to Clachnaharry (Beauly Firth, East Coast). |
| 01/04/1868 | Inverness and Ross-shire Railway Clachnaharry station opened. |
| / /1901 | Inverness and Ross-shire Railway Line between Clachnaharry and Lentran doubled. |
| / /1913 | Inverness and Ross-shire Railway Clachnaharry station closed. |
| / /1915 | Inverness and Ross-shire Railway Authorisation (retrospective?) to double the line between Clachnaharry and Clunes. |
| / /1924 | Inverness and Ross-shire Railway Gauntleted junction at Clachnaharry station replaced by a turnout slightly further north. |
| / /2002 | Inverness and Ross-shire Railway Railtrack repairs to road bridge at Clachnaharry result in a single lane A862 and traffic lights. |
News items
| 02/12/2023 | Campaigners for Highland railway passing loop 'less optimistic' [Inverness Courier] |
| 14/12/2011 | Train hits tree near Clachnaharry [Inverness Courier] |
