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This was a three platform station. There was a through platform for the line to Fort Augustus Pier and two bay platforms. The platforms were in concrete, as were many structures of this line. The station building was reminiscent of the West Highland style, but at ninety degrees to the line.

Curiously no crossover was provided in the station bays as built, but this was installed later. The through platform, and adjoining bay, were longer than the second bay on the east side. Generally the west bay was used as this allowed the locomotive to be released easily. The east bay often had a van parked against the buffer.

On the east side of the station was the goods yard, with goods shed and a two road locomotive shed.

The signal box opened with the line in 1903 and closed in 1933 with the closure to passengers. By 1938 the platform lines were lifted. The line remained open for goods until 1946. The station building burned down in 1950.

Little remains of the station except a short portion of the long disused through platform close to the canal.

The line continued north by swing bridge over the Caledonian Canal and over a fine castellated viaduct (Oich Viaduct) over the River Oich to the Fort Augustus Pier station on Loch Ness. This portion of the line was only open to passengers for three years. It fell out of use in 1915, officially closing in 1924 and lifted after or around 1935.

To the south the line continued to Fort Augustus RNAD Depot. Parts of the trackbed are very well preserved with every sleeper indentation still visible.

The railway came to own the nearby Lovat Arms and Station Hotel.

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The actual Fort, Fort Augustus [Fort] was on the banks of the south end of Loch Ness between the Caledonian Canal and River Tarff. The site was later absorbed into the site of Fort Augustus Abbey.

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