Fortrose Branch (Highland Railway)

Introduction

This railway is closed. Passenger services are still provided by ScotRail between Inverness, Thurso and Wick.






Dates

01/02/1894Fortrose Branch (Highland Railway)
Line opened.
01/10/1951Fortrose Branch (Highland Railway)
Fortrose to Muir of Ord closed to passengers.
13/06/1960Fortrose Branch (Highland Railway)
Fortrose to Muir of Ord closed to freight.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This is a two platform station. The main station building was similar to that at Dalwhinnie but with a canopy with end screens. It was on the down (northbound) platform. It was, like that at Dalwhinnie, a replacement for a building which burned down (in 1922). It has been demolished.
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Inverness and Ross-shire Railway
Muir of Ord down platform building in 1977, since demolished. ...
Bill Roberton //1977
An aerial view of Muir of Ord, where a new communications mast is planned. ...
Network Rail /02/2022
First ScotRail 158722 pulls away from Muir of Ord platform 2 and is about to pass below the bridge carrying Great North Road on a wet and windy 3 ...
John Furnevel 3/10/2009
37221 passing south through Muir of Ord with an empty PW train in 1995. Earlier that day ballast had been tipped to strengthen the embankment near ...
Ewan Crawford //1995
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Redcastle station was a one platform station with a large timber station building. The platform was on the north side of the line.
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The former station building at Redcastle on the Fortrose branch. Photographed in October 1990 prior to commencement of the restoration project See ...
Colin Miller /10/1990
Sign in the museum at Boat of Garten in October 1999. See image 40605 ...
Colin Miller 06/10/1999
One of the old waterslide transfers see image 20678 intended for flat - plate gas lamps attached to a window at the remains of the Highland ...
Colin Miller //1990
Looking east at Redcastle station. ...
Ewan Crawford //
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This was a single platform station. The platform was on the north side of the single track with a goods yard at the west end, approached from the west. The station building was typical of the line. This station did not have a signal box.
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Looking west at Allangrange. ...
Ewan Crawford //
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This was a single platform station. The platform was on the south side of the line. There were water columns, the water tank was opposite the platform on the north side of the line.
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Looking east at the former Munlochy station. ...
Ewan Crawford //
Still standing fifty years after the closure of the Fortrose Branch, a farm access bridge crumbling away in the corner of a field west of Munlochy ...
John Gray 15/09/2010
GNSR 49 at Munlochy with the 1960 RCTS/SLS Joint Scottish Tour. ...
WA Camwell (Copyright Stephenson Locomotive Society) 14/06/1960
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This crossing, also known as Corrachie Crossing, had a private halt for Rosehaugh House which is to the north of the former railway. The platform was west of the level crossing and north of the line. A railway cottage remains here today.
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This was a single platform station to the west of the town. The platform was on the south side of the line. There was a goods yard to the west of the station, on the south side of the line, approached from the west. There was no signal box.
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Looking north at the former site of Avoch station. ...
Ewan Crawford //
Today it is hard to find any indication that Avoch had a railway connection. The station site is now built over but just east of it, hidden in the ...
John Gray 15/09/2010
Just west of Avoch was Rosehaugh Crossing. On the 14th of June 1960 the RCTS/SLS Joint Scottish Tour approaches the crossing ...
WA Camwell (Copyright Stephenson Locomotive Society) 14/06/1960
The 1960 RCTS/SLS Joint Scottish Tour approaching Avoch from Fortrose bound for Muir of Ord. ...
WA Camwell (Copyright Stephenson Locomotive Society) 14/06/1960
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This was the terminus of the line from Muir of Ord. There was a single platform to the south of a loop.
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The former station house at Fortrose, photographed in September 2010. The house now overlooks a car park where the station platform once stood. ...
John Gray /09/2010
Looking east at the former Fortrose terminus. ...
Ewan Crawford //
Ready for departure. C.R. 4.4.0 54470 at Fortrose station. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 01/07/1950
On arrival. C.R. 4.4.0 54470 at Fortrose station. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 01/07/1950
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