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This single platform halt was at the north end of Loch Treig. It had a single platform of 220ft on the esst side of the line. It was a workman's halt built during the construction of Laggan Dam, just to the east, and associated tunnels. The dam is part of the scheme which provides the head of water for electricity generation at the Lochaber Aluminium Works in Fort William. There was a worker's camp at Fersit, cement shed, stores and machine shops.

The station open on the 1st of August 1931 and closed on the 1st of January 1935.

Little remains of the halt, but there are piles of spoil and the aftermath of the construction to be found in the general area to the north of the road bridge over the railway on either side of the river.

During construction of the dam there was a temporary railway, the Treig-Laggan Railway, which extended the Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway from Loch Treig over the West Highland Railway to Laggan.

Sidings from the West Highland served the construction depot. The sidings were on the east side of the line, north of the road overbridge, and approached from the north. It was to the north of these that the narrow gauge line crossed over. There is a former railway cottage at the site, on the east side of the line.

There is the concrete base of a platform to the south of the road bridge at Fersit, on the west side of the line, which may have been the halt but it has also been described as being closer to the sidings.

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