Tulloch

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Inverlair (1894-1895)
Tulloch for Loch Laggan and Kingussie (1895-1948)
Tulloch (1948-)

Station code: TUL National Rail ScotRail
Where: Highland, Scotland
Opened on the West Highland Railway.
Open on the West Highland Line.

Description

This is a two platform station typical of the northern portion of the West Highland Railway. The main building, on the up (southbound) platform is Swiss Chalet in style. The north side of the building has been modified with the addition of three small wings - two being extensions of gables and the third being wholly new.

The westbound (down) platform building and footbridge (west end) are both lost. There is the brick base of a watertank at the east end of the up platform and the signal box (east of station building and closed 1986). The stationmaster's house still stands to the north with a commanding position looking over the station. Like the station, this house had a protective screen of trees planted around it, the location of the station being exposed.

The former goods loading bank siding has been lifted, but the yard's reversing spur used to access it is still in place and is used as a permanent way base, a tamper often being parked here.

The station building is now a hostel. Station Lodge Tulloch

Over the years various suggestions have been made for a new line east to Newtonmore, from suggestions in the railway era to more recent plans considered by councils.

The original name was Inverlair, named for the nearby Inverlair Lodge, to the south west, which is 2 miles by road and on the south bank of the River Spean crossed by the Inverlair Bridge.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67

Facilities

Gaelic name: Tulaich



Nearby stations
Fersit Halt
Roy Bridge
Spean Bridge
Corrour
Invergloy Platform
Gairlochy
Invergarry
Rannoch
Aberchalder
Banavie Pier
Banavie
Fort William
Corpach
Fort William [1st]
Dalwhinnie
Tulloch Viaduct
Adit B
Adit A
Sand Pit
Intake A
Intake B
Fersit Cement Shed
Fersit Store
Fersit Fitting Shop
Fersit Siding
Intake C
Bridge 2
Fersit Speeder Shed
Tourist/other
Inverlair Lodge
Laggan Dam
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Tulloch for Kingussie


The West Highland Railway rather misleadingly named the station 'Tulloch for Kingussie', despite Kingussie being some 32 miles to the east and already served by Kingussie station, located in the village, owned by the Highland Railway.


Chronology Dates

31/07/1894West Highland Railway
Helensburgh Upper, Shandon, Garelochhead, Glen Douglas, Arrochar and Tarbet, Ardlui, Crianlarich, Tyndrum [WHR], Bridge of Orchy, Gorton, Rannoch, Corrour, Inverlair, Roy Bridge, Spean Bridge signal boxes opened.
07/08/1894West Highland Railway
Public opening from Fort William to Craigendoran. Stations opened at Craigendoran Upper, Helensburgh Upper, Row, Shandon, Garelochhead, Arrochar and Tarbet, Ardlui, Crianlarich, Tyndrum [WHR], Bridge of Orchy, Gortan (private), Rannoch, Corrour (private), Inverlair, Roy Bridge, Spean Bridge and Fort William [1st].
01/01/1895West Highland Railway
Inverlair renamed Tulloch.
23/02/1986West Highland Railway
Tulloch signal box closed.
  /  /1987West Highland Railway
Tulloch station building falls out of use with the introduction of RETB.
29/05/1988West Highland Railway
Tyndrum Upper, Bridge of Orchy, Rannoch, Corrour, Tulloch, Spean Bridge block posts eliminated by RETB.
06/06/1998West Highland Railway
Tulloch station building opened, after renovation at a cost of £200,000, as a bunkhouse.
08/01/2005West Highland Railway
Closed between Roy Bridge and Tulloch due to floodwaters rising in Monessie Gorge.

News items

15/11/2023Walk in the footsteps of explorers with West Highland Line audio drama [Community Rail Network]
19/06/2023Flood damaged West Highland Line reopens after repairs [BBC News]
16/06/2023Flood-hit West Highland railway line to remain closed as repairs could take days, Network Rail says [STV]
14/06/2023A86 reopens as ScotRail disruption continues on West Highland Line between Fort William and Crianlarich [STV]
14/06/2023Scotrail services from Glasgow affected due to 'trapped' trains [Glasgow Times]
14/06/2023Work underway to repair flood-damaged West Highland Line [Network Rail]
30/01/2023Call for extra seats in under-used ScotRail cycle carriages to ease overcrowding [Scotsman]
04/04/2022£7m improvement project completed on the West Highland Line [Network Rail]
17/02/2021ScotRail rides to the rescue of remote Highland community [ScotRail]
15/02/2013Owners write off derailed locomotive due to costs [Scotsman]

Books

All Stations to Mallaig!: West Highland Line Since Nationalisation
Argyll and the Highlands Last Days of Steam

Argyll and the Highlands' Lost Railways

Ben Nevis and Fort William, The Mamores and The Grey Corries, Kinlochleven and Spean Bridge (OS Explorer Map)

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

Mountain Moor and Loch on the Route of the West Highland Railway

On West Highland Lines

Railway World Special: West Highland Lines

Rannan Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean =: The West Highland Line

Road To The Isles Dvd: Part One The West Highland Line Between Crianlarich to Fort William, From the Drivers Cab Of A Class 37, With The Caledonian Sleeper
The Mallaig Railway: The West Highland Extension 1897-1901 (RCAHMS Broadsheet)
The New Railway: The Earliest Years of the West Highland Line

The Story of the West Highland

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

The West Highland Railway

The West Highland Railway (Railways of the Scottish Highlands)

The West Highland Railway 120 Years

Trossachs and West Highlands: Exploring the Lost Railways (Local History Series)

Victorian Travel on the West Highland Line: By Mountain, Moor and Loch in 1894

Walks from the West Highland Railway (Cicerone Guide)

West Highland Line: 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
West Highland Railway: Plans, Poltics and People