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This is an island platform station with an original West Highland Railway chalet-style building and signal box ('B' listed, closed 1986). A parcels building and short platform (both demolished 2017) were on the west side of the station. Access to the station is by means of a subway. The ironmongery typical of West Highland station subways remains intact - fencing round the pit of the subway and gates which can be closed across where the subway emerges onto the platform.

There are goods sidings, approached from the north, on the west side of the station. There was formerly a siding on the east side, serving a platform, which was accessed from the south. The sidings are now in use as a permanent way depot.

The stationmaster's house and railwaymen's cottages remain, in use as houses. The station is approached by a steep hair-pin bend road from the village below. Formerly a lane ran directly south west to Garelochhead Pier.

The island platform was extended northwards in the late 1980s/early 1990s around the time of the Sprinter introduction.

A turntable pit exists on the west side of the line north of the station, this is because the local service from Craigendoran Pier originally terminated here before being extended north to Arrochar and Tarbet.

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This is presently the nearest station to HM Naval Base Clyde which is to the south.

The Three Lochs Way is at a higher level to the east. There isn't presently (2021) an offshoot to the station.

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