Corrour

Location type

Station

Names 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 building was 'Morgan's Den' for many years, providing accommodation after the box closed, named for Jimmy Morgan.

The station famously features in the film 'Trainspotting' (IMDB - Trainspotting ).

The original timber footbridge was replaced by a lattice 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

To the immediate north of the station is Pollock Level Crossing (an occupational crossing) beyond which is Corrour Summit.

The original halt name Lebruaridh, more properly Lùibruairidh, was for a now ruined cottage about a mile and a half north.

Tags

Station scenic

Aliases

Luibruiaridh Lùibruairidh Corrour Siding

External links

Canmore site record
NLS 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
Loch Ossian Youth Hostel
Lubnaclach Gravel Pit
Lubnaclach Lineside Cottage
Lineside Cottage
Midloch Lineside Cottage
Allt Coire Mheadhoin Viaduct
Tourist/other
Corrour Restaurant
Pollock Level Crossing
Lubnaclach
Beinn na Lap
Loch Ossian
Craig-uaine-ach Lodge
Corrour Old Lodge
Loch Treig
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Cailleach


The 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 .


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].
15/09/1934West Highland Railway
Corrour opened to the public having been a private halt.
  /11/1985West Highland Railway
Corrour signal box closed.
08/05/1988West Highland Railway
Corrour block post can be switched out.
29/05/1988West Highland Railway
Tyndrum Upper, Bridge of Orchy, Rannoch, Corrour, Tulloch, Spean Bridge block posts eliminated by RETB.
28/10/1999West Highland Railway
Derailment at Corrour.
23/07/2001West Highland Railway
New accommodation and restaurant building at Corrour station closes.
28/06/2012West Highland Railway
GBRf 66734 'The Eco Express' on a loaded northbound train for the Lochaber Smelter derails alongside Loch Treig following a landslip on 28 June. Tank wagons were removed relatively easily to Corrour but the locomotive was cut up on site.
  /  /2016West Highland Railway
Corrour signal box renovated.

News items

15/11/2023Walk in the footsteps of explorers with West Highland Line audio drama [Community Rail Network]
10/09/2023Trainspotting: Take the train to iconic film location and walk to Rannoch Station [The Courier]
20/02/2023Remote Corrour Station House in area made famous by Trainspotting looking for staff [STV]
11/05/2022Our challenge seemed simple: Run around a loch and catch the train home but then the wheels came off [Sunday Post]
02/05/2022Bradley Watts: Energy transition train is standing at Corrour get off and admire the view but dont dally [Press and Journal]
04/04/2022£7m improvement project completed on the West Highland Line [Network Rail]
22/02/2022Famous Scottish Trainspotting station looking for restaurant staff this summer [GlasgowLive]
16/10/2021Playground of the rich £ 20,000 for three to four days to rent a lodge by a loch [Express.co.uk]
19/08/2021Remote station is 10 miles from nearest road but has direct trains to London [MyLondon]
05/04/2021Here's how you can apply for the incredible job opportunity to be a chef at Scotland's most remote railway station [The 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