Fort William Goods

Location type

Sidings

Name and dates

Fort William Goods (1894-1970)

Opened on the West Highland Railway.

Description

This goods yard was east of Fort William [1st], terminus of the West Highland Railway. Today it is, approximately, the site of Fort William station.

It was laid out on the site of Fort William [Fort], the fort the town is named after. Several of the barracks buildings survived and were in railway use.

The cattle pens and loading banks were on the south side of the line. Approach was by reversing from Fort William [1st] (to the west).

The goods shed and yard was to the north of the line. These were approached from the east. Fort William Shed was to the north of these sidings, close to the Sally Port of the former fort. (The Sally Port gave access to the River Ness to the north, since re-routed). The headshunt of the goods yard continued east as a long siding serving Nevis Distillery.

The new station is slightly to the east and south, built on a new alignment just to the south of the original. The goods yard site is now roads and a roundabout, agrassy area, the former fort and a car park of a supermarket.

Tags

Sidings goods
09/07/2020

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