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Fort William Oil Sidings

Location type

Sidings

Name and dates

Fort William Oil Sidings

Opened on the West Highland Railway.

Description

A pair of sidings in Fort William are served from the loop on the Mallaig line at Fort William Junction. These oil sidings have seen irregular use with the flow from Grangemouth New Oil Terminal starting and ceasing several times. At present, 2018, the sidings are not used, oil travels by road.

Tags

Oil depot

Nearby stations Fort William Fort William [1st] Banavie Corpach Banavie Pier Loch Eil Outward Bound Gairlochy Locheilside Spean Bridge Ballachulish Ferry Ballachulish (Glencoe) Roy Bridge Invergloy Platform Kentallen Glenfinnan	Fort William Lower Works Railway Bridge Nevis Viaduct Fort William Junction Fort William Junction Yard Inverlochy Footbridge Fort William Shed Lochaber Carbon Factory Fort William Goods Lochaber Aluminium Smelter Ground Frame Tom-na-Faire Depot Tourist/other Glenlochy Distillery Nevis Distillery Tom na Faire Viewpoint Fort William [Fort] Old Inverlochy Castle
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

24/09/2001	West Highland Railway Heating and gas oil traffic from Grangemouth New Oil Terminal to Fort William Oil Sidings restarts (having ceased in the 1980s).
26/09/2001	West Highland Railway Fort William Oil Sidings re-opened.

Books

All Stations to Mallaig!: West Highland Line Since Nationalisation

Argyll and the Highlands Last Days of Steam

Argyll and the Highlands' Lost Railways

Ben Nevis and Fort William, The Mamores and The Grey Corries, Kinlochleven and Spean Bridge (OS Explorer Map)

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: West Highland Railway v. 1

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: West Highland Railway v. 1

Iron Road to the Isles: A Travellers and Tourist Guide to the West Highland Lines

Iron Roads to the Isles: A Travellers and Tourists Souvenir Guide to the West Highland Lines

Mountain Moor and Loch on the Route of the West Highland Railway

On West Highland Lines

Railway World Special: West Highland Lines

Rannan Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean =: The West Highland Line

Road To The Isles Dvd: Part One The West Highland Line Between Crianlarich to Fort William, From the Drivers Cab Of A Class 37, With The Caledonian Sleeper

The Mallaig Railway: The West Highland Extension 1897-1901 (RCAHMS Broadsheet)

The New Railway: The Earliest Years of the West Highland Line

The Story of the West Highland

The Story of the West Highland: The 1940s LNER Guide to the Line

The West Highland Railway

The West Highland Railway (Railways of the Scottish Highlands)

The West Highland Railway 120 Years

Trossachs and West Highlands: Exploring the Lost Railways (Local History Series)

Victorian Travel on the West Highland Line: By Mountain, Moor and Loch in 1894

Walks from the West Highland Railway (Cicerone Guide)

West Highland Line: Great Railway Journeys Through Time

West Highland Railway

West Highland Railway (History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands v. 1): West Highland Railway v. 1

West Highland Railway: Plans, Poltics and People