Corrour
Location type
Station
Name and dates
Corrour (1934-)
Opened on the West Highland Railway.
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.
The station has an island platform and retains its original 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 original passenger building on the platform does not survive. 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.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site record
Books
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 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: Plans, Poltics and PeopleDates
| 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]. |
