Bilbster
Location type
StationName and dates
Bilbster (1874-1960)Opened on the Sutherland and Caithness Railway.
Description
This was a single platform station, located on the south side of the line, just east of a level crossing. Bilbster House was a little to the south.
There was a goods yard on the south side, approached from the east with a pair of sidings.
There was a signal box at the west end of the platform, opened 1894.
In 1950 the southern siding was lifted.
The station and box closed in 1960.
The line remains open. The station building and a railway cottage both remain as a private houses.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
02/09/2019
| Nearby stations Watten Wick Bower Thrumster Welsh^s Crossing Halt Ulbster Georgemas Junction Hoy Halkirk Mid Clyth Roster Road Halt Occumster Parkside Halt Lybster Scotscalder | Bridge of Wester Wick Shed Quarry Spittal Mains Quarry Georgemas Trolley Shed Tourist/other Loch Watten Loch of Wester Wick Heritage Museum Loch Hempriggs Pulteney Distillery Wick Bay Castle of Old Wick Grey Cairns of Camster Cairns of Yarrows Broch Cairn o^Get |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 28/07/1874 | Sutherland and Caithness Railway Line opened from Helmsdale (Duke of Sutherland's Railway) to Wick with stations at Salzcraggie (Private), Kildonan, Kinbrace, Forsinard, Altnabreac, Scotscalder, Halkirk, Georgemas Junction, Hoy, Thurso, Bower, Watten, Bilbster and Wick. |
| 13/06/1960 | Sutherland and Caithness Railway Halkirk, Bower, Watten and Bilbster closed. |
Books
 Highland Survivor |
