Locheilside
Location type
StationName and dates
Locheilside (1901-)Station code: LCS National Rail ScotRail
Where: Highland, Scotland
Opened on the Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway).
Open on the West Highland Line.
Description
This is a single platform station. It originally had a typical Mallaig Extension building such as that at Glenfinnan or Arisaig, but this has been lost (it was derelict and vandalised by the late 1960s). There is a shelter. The platform is on the north side of the line with Loch Eil just across the track.
A passing loop was proposed here several times, but not installed.
Further west at Kinlocheil, close to milepost 12.5, was one of the main depots for the construction of the line.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
Facilities
Gaelic name: Taobh Loch Iall
This is a single platform station. It originally had a typical Mallaig Extension building such as that at Glenfinnan or Arisaig, but this has been lost (it was derelict and vandalised by the late 1960s). There is a shelter. The platform is on the north side of the line with Loch Eil just across the track.
A passing loop was proposed here several times, but not installed.
Further west at Kinlocheil, close to milepost 12.5, was one of the main depots for the construction of the line.
A passing loop was proposed here several times, but not installed.
Further west at Kinlocheil, close to milepost 12.5, was one of the main depots for the construction of the line.
Chronology Dates
| 01/04/1901 | Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway) Line opened from Banavie (Banavie Junction [2nd]), over the Caledonian Canal and on through Banavie, Corpach, Locheilside, Glenfinnan, Lochailort, Beasdale, Arisaig and Morar to Mallaig, extending the West Highland Railway to the western seaboard. There was no official opening ceremony. |
| / /1963 | Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway) The The Reshaping of British Railways (Beeching) report proposes the closure of Banavie, Locheilside and Mallaig but retaining a limited stop Fort William [1st] to Mallaig service. |
