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This is a single platform station. The platform is on the north side of the single track. A disused station building from the 1954 opening still stands. There was a siding at the west end which was taken out in 1964. At the east end of the station is an occupational crossing.

This is the third station of this name at the west end of Lochluichart.

This station was opened when the original course of the railway was flooded by the raising of Loch Luichart when it became a reservoir. The Lochluichart Deviation (British Railways) alignment is slightly to the north of the original line. Lochluichart [2nd] was on this alignment (the Dingwall and Skye Railway), a little to the south of its replacement. To the west the line crossed the River Conon and even this bridge, very close to the west end of the new alignment, had to be replaced. The level of the loch was raised by 25ft for the Conon Valley hydroscheme.

Lochluichart [1st] was a private station to the east, just south of Lochluichart Lodge.

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