Mallaig Shed

Location type

Loco shed

Name and dates

Mallaig Shed (1901-1962)

Opened on the Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway).

Description

This was a single road locomotive shed on the west (sea) side of Mallaig station, about in line with the end of the platform. It was approached from the south and had a turntable on its west side by the sea. A line extended from the south to the pier, running between the station and the locomotive shed.

Class 27s diesel locomotives began working the line in 1961 and by 1962 steam was officially withdrawn. The cost of bringing coal to Mallaig from the south bringing steam to an end earlier than on much of the railway network.

After the withdrawal of steam the shed survived, without track from about 1964, in various uses (eg to store fish boxes!) until the 1980s when a new road was brought into Mallaig from the south along the shoreline when it was demolished (in 1987).

Foundations, and some track, were found during ground works for a community centre in 2000.

Tags

Shed locomotive shed


Chronology Dates

  /  /1987Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway)
Mallaig station's screening wall, which protected passengers from the elements, removed. Mallaig Shed demolished. Both removed for road development.
  /05/2000Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway)
While erecting a community hall on the site of Mallaig Shed the foundations of the building, and some track, is found. The rail served oil tanks by the station are to be replaced by a new storage facility in the harbour.

Books


A Mallaig Boyhood (Flashbacks)
All Stations to Mallaig!: West Highland Line Since Nationalisation
Captains and Commanders: Memoirs of a Scottish West Coast Fisherman

Chapels of the Rough Bounds

Highland Steam: A Scrapbook of Images from the 'Kyle, Mallaig and Highland Lines

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: West Highland Railway v. 1

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: West Highland Railway v. 1

Iron Road to the Isles: A Travellers and Tourist Guide to the West Highland Lines

Iron Roads to the Isles: A Travellers and Tourists Souvenir Guide to the West Highland Lines

Landranger (40) Mallaig & Glenfinnan, Loch Shiel (OS Landranger Map)

Mallaig Line: An Illustrated History and Guide

Old Mallaig, Morar and Arisaig

On West Highland Lines

Railway World Special: Fort William and Mallaig

Railway World Special: West Highland Lines

Rannan Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean =: The West Highland Line
Steam to Mallaig
The Mallaig Railway
The Mallaig Railway: The West Highland Extension 1897-1901 (RCAHMS Broadsheet)
The Story of the West Highland

The Story of the West Highland: The 1940s LNER Guide to the Line

The West Highland Mallaig Extension in B.R.Days

The West Highland Railway

The West Highland Railway (Railways of the Scottish Highlands)

The West Highland Railway 120 Years

Walks from the West Highland Railway (Cicerone Guide)

West Highland Extension: Great Railway Journeys Through Time

West Highland Railway
West Highland Railway (History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands v. 1): West Highland Railway v. 1