Kinlochailort Camp
Location type
PlaceName and dates
Kinlochailort Camp (1897-1901)Description
The Kinlochailort camp was the largest of the temporary construction camps built to accommodate navvies. . Of the 3,500 men employed on the line's construction, some 1,500 navvies lived here (some suggest as many as 2,000), with around 35 wooden huts (intended to sleep around 40 men each). There was a bakery at this camp, supplying the men with fresh bread every day, and a Cooper and Co store.
The camp was a short distance from the Camas Driseach Depot landing site where flat bottomed puffers could be beached as the tide went out and unloaded.
Lochailort station is nearby, to the east.
Nothing remains of the camp today.
Tags
Construction campAliases
Camas Driseach Camp10/02/2021
| Nearby stations Lochailort Beasdale Lech-a-vuie Platform Arisaig Morar Glenfinnan Mallaig Locheilside Loch Eil Outward Bound Corpach Fort William [1st] Kentallen Fort William Banavie Duror | Lochailort Tunnel Camas Driseach Depot Polnish No 106 Tunnel Polnish No 107 Tunnel Arienskill Bridge Polnish House Arnabol Viaduct Loch nan Uamh Viaduct Loch nan Uamh No 116 Tunnel Loch nan Uamh No 117 Tunnel Tourist/other Lochailort Inn Inverailort House Loch Ailort Polnish Chapel Loch Eilt |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
