Invershin
Location type
StationName and dates
Invershin (1868-)Station code: INH National Rail ScotRail
Where: Highland, Scotland
Opened on the Sutherland Railway.
Open on the Far North Line.
Description
This is a single platform station, immediately to the north of the Oykel Viaduct with a short timber portion at the south end where the line rises on an embankment on approach to the viaduct. The station building is in a state of ruin. Culrain station is to the south over the Oykel Viaduct. The station has no car park.
The station has always had only one platform. The building was in the cottage style typical of the line.
The signal box was at the north end of the platform.
The goods yard was to the north, on the west side. It consisted of a pair of sidings serving a loading bank, one of the sidings of considerable length.
The box became a ground frame only in 1902. The box was removed in 1964.
Tags
Station12/03/2020
| Nearby stations Culrain Ardgay Lairg Mid Fearn Rogart Edderton Cambusavie Platform The Mound Meikle Ferry Skelbo Dornoch Embo Tain Golspie Alness | Oykel Viaduct Invercarron Bridge Lairg Oil Depot Lairg Quarry Fearn Causeway Lairg Summit Acheilidh Crossing Shinness Quarry Dornoch Firth Crossing Tourist/other Carbisdale Castle Achany House Dornoch Firth Dalmore Signal Box Balblair Distillery Skilbo Castle |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 13/04/1868 | Sutherland Railway Bonar Bridge (Inverness and Ross-shire Railway) to Golspie opened with stations at: Invershin, Lairg, Rogart, The Mound and Golspie. |
News items
Books
 Highland Survivor |
