Redcastle
Location type
StationName and dates
Redcastle (1894-1951)Opened on the Fortrose Branch (Highland Railway).
Description
Redcastle station was a one platform station with a large timber station building. The platform was on the north side of the line.
There was a goods yard at the east end, approached from the west serving a loading bank. A goods shed was reached by reversal.
The station closed to passengers in 1951 and the line closed in 1960.
The former station is over a mile north of Redcastle itself.
The station is in an excellent state of preservation. It houses a post office and is a centre of the charity Nansen Highland , associated with the explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
Railway cottages also survive.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
12/09/2019
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