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This was a single platform station with a small building and small goods yard. This station replaced a private halt Lochluichart [1st] which was closer to Lochluichart Lodge and to the east. The station closed when Loch Luichart was damned for a hydroscheme and replaced by a new station just to the north, Lochluichart on the Lochluichart Deviation (British Railways).

The station had a platform on the north side of the line and a goods loading bank to the east. There was a station building and railway cottage just to the north. There was a signal box, from 1893.

The station was a little west of the loch, before the hydroscheme, with a level crossing for the road which ran south to Mossford Farm.

The water level was to rise with the hydroscheme (Luichart Power Station and others) so a portion of the line was re-aligned to the north. This included the station and, to the west, a bridge over the River Conon. The Mossford Farm was lost to the rising water.

The original alignment closed in 1954.

The goods loading bank can still be found and the choked and overgrown site of the passenger platform. The station building and cottage are gone. The trackbed can be followed in both directions, it is usually above the water level.

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