Corrour
Location type
StationNames and dates
Lebruaridh (1894-1894)Corrour (1934-)
Station code: CRR National Rail ScotRail
Where: Highland, Scotland
Opened on the West Highland Railway.
Open on the West Highland Line.
Description
This small station on the West Highland Railway is only accessible by train, or via a very long private road. In summer the station is a B+B and restaurant Corrour Station House Restaurant . This replaced the former stationmaster^s cottage in 1998, which had in any case been altered.
The original name of the halt was Lebruaridh. It was provided for Sir John Stirling Maxwell who owned the estate and whose Corrour Shooting Lodge was nearby (see trivia section). The landowner, having given reasonable notice, was able to halt trains here. It opened to the public on the 11 of September 1934.
The station has an island platform and retains its ^C^ listed signal box. This is the only remaining example of its type on the West Highland - it is a combined signal box and station building. The platform is to the north west of the building. Other examples stood at Glen Douglas Halt and Gorton [WHR]. (A similar building survives at Drumvaich Crossing on the former Callander and Oban Railway.) The box opened in 1894 and closed in 1985.
The original timber passenger waiting room on the platform does not survive. There is a small wooden hut however. The loop is released by ground frames and is not generally used to allow trains to pass and there is a siding.
The station famously features in the film ^Trainspotting^ (IMDB - Transpotting ).
The original timber footbridge was replaced by a metal one, now relocated to Rannoch (to replace its bridge lost in the 1980s).
The signal box and station building have been restored and now provide accommodation. Corrour Signal Box Accommodation
Tags
Station scenicExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
Facilities
Gaelic name: An Coire Odhar
| Nearby stations Rannoch Fersit Halt Tulloch Roy Bridge Gorton [WHR] Spean Bridge Gairlochy Invergloy Platform Banavie Pier Fort William Banavie Fort William [1st] Bridge of Orchy Corpach Ballachulish (Glencoe) | Corrour Summit Allt Coire Mheadhoin Viaduct Tourist/other Corrour Restaurant Beinn na Lap Loch Ossian Craig-uaine-ach Lodge Corrour Old Lodge Loch Treig Carn Dearg Corrour Shooting Lodge Meall Garbh Stob Coire Sgriodain South Peak Chno Dearg Stob Coire Sgriodain Stob Coire Easain |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
CailleachThe private steam yacht ^SS Cailleach^ (1904-193X) formerly operated on Loch Ossian, to the north east of the station, connecting the station to the 1894 Corrour Shooting Lodge. The associated waiting room at the south end of the loch is now Loch Ossian Youth Hostel . |
Dates
| 07/08/1894 | West Highland Railway Public opening from Fort William to Craigendoran. Stations opened at Craigendoran Upper, Helensburgh Upper, Row, 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]. |
| 15/09/1934 | West Highland Railway Corrour opened to the public having been a private halt. |
| 23/07/2001 | West Highland Railway New accommodation and restaurant building at Corrour station closes. |
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