Corpach
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StationName and dates
Corpach (1901-)Station code: CPA National Rail ScotRail
Where: Highland, Scotland
Opened on the Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway).
Open on the West Highland Line.
Description
This is a single platform station. It is close to the basin of the Caledonian Canal and its Corpach Basin and the sea lock. Corpach retains its small timber station building, not typical of the line (the original building, typical of the Mallaig extension, burned down). The platform is on the north side of the line and there is a barrier protected level crossing to its west.
A long ballast siding ran from east of the station to terminate north east of the station. Ballast was delivered by road to the Corpach siding, the Fort William pilot tripping to the siding.
Directly west of the station is a level crossing. Signals for this were controlled by a small gate box at the west end of the station and south side of the line, closed when the crossing became an automatic open crossing in 1982. Continuing west the line is so close to Loch Eil that the embankment is protected by a sea wall. Going further west by the loch there are many more of these sea walls.
Tomonie Signal Box was to the east and beyond that is the Banavie Swing Bridge and Banavie station.
To the west was Annat Signal Box and the line runs west on the north bank of Loch Eil to Loch Eil Outward Bound.
1.3 miles from Banavie Junction [2nd].
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StationFacilities
Gaelic name: A^ Chorpaich
| Nearby stations Banavie Banavie Pier Fort William Fort William [1st] Loch Eil Outward Bound Locheilside Gairlochy Spean Bridge Invergloy Platform Ballachulish Ferry Roy Bridge Ballachulish (Glencoe) Kentallen Glenfinnan Lech-a-vuie Platform | Corpach Basin Annat Sidings Annat Signal Box Annat Pulp Mill Ground Frame Banavie Swing Bridge Kilmallie Mill Neptune^s Staircase Banavie Junction [2nd] Camus-na-ha Sidings Tourist/other Corpach Beacon Corpach Pier Tomonie Signal Box Camusnagaul Fort William Aluminium Pier Fort William [Fort] |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Corpach as a terminusCorpach was used as a terminus for one train a day from Fort Augustus, the 2.40pm (*). It was slightly tortuous, the train reversed at Spean Bridge and Fort William [1st] on its journey. * 24 hour clock use was not adopted until 1965. |
