Dornoch
Location type
StationName and dates
Dornoch (1902-1966)Opened on the Dornoch Light Railway.
Description
This was a terminus in the north of Dornoch. It was a single platform station with a locomotive shed on the east side of the line at the north end and a goods yard to the west of the passenger station. The platform was on the east side of the site alongside a rounding loop. Photographs of the station when open often show Dornoch Cathedral in the background, it was to the south of the station.
The station building still stands, on a long portion of the platform. Much of the site is now an industrial estate.
Had the Dornoch Firth Crossing been opened the railway may have returned to Dornoch, although probably not with a station at this site.
Dornoch Press, publishers of Railway Digest Scotland, were based in the station building.
Local
The Dornoch Hotel was opened by the Highland Railway in 1904, two years after the station. It was opened close to the Royal Dornoch Golf Course with a view looking out over the course and coast.
It became a British Transport Hotel and was sold in 1965.
Dornoch Hotel
Dornoch Cathedral
Tags
Station terminusExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Embo Skelbo Meikle Ferry Cambusavie Platform Tain The Mound Edderton Golspie Fearn Dunrobin Castle Nigg Rogart Kildary Mid Fearn Brora | Dornoch Shed Dornoch Cathedral Dornoch Firth Crossing Glenmorangie Siding Tain Shed Golspie Shed Golspie Burn Viaduct Tourist/other Dornoch Hotel Skilbo Castle Loch Fleet Glenmorangie Distillery Balblair Distillery Duke of Sutherland Monument Dunrobin Castle [Castle] Dornoch Firth |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 02/06/1902 | Dornoch Light Railway Dornoch Light Railway opened from The Mound (Sutherland Railway) to Dornoch. Andrew Carnegie spoke at the opening (he owned Skibo Castle at Skilbo near Dornoch). |
| 13/06/1960 | Dornoch Light Railway Dornoch to The Mound (excluded) closed to all traffic. The Mound closes to passengers. |
