Lochluichart

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Lochluichart (1954-)

Station code: LCC National Rail ScotRail
Where: Highland, Scotland
Opened on the Lochluichart Deviation (British Railways).
Open on the Kyle Line.

Description

This is a single platform station. The platform is on the north side of the single track. A disused station building from the 1954 opening still stands. There was a siding at the west end which was taken out in 1964. At the east end of the station is an occupational crossing.

This is the third station of this name at the west end of Lochluichart.

This station was opened when the original course of the railway was flooded by the raising of Loch Luichart when it became a reservoir. The Lochluichart Deviation (British Railways) alignment is slightly to the north of the original line. Lochluichart [2nd] was on this alignment (the Dingwall and Skye Railway), a little to the south of its replacement. To the west the line crossed the River Conon and even this bridge, very close to the west end of the new alignment, had to be replaced. The level of the loch was raised by 25ft for the Conon Valley hydroscheme.

Lochluichart [1st] was a private station to the east, just south of Lochluichart Lodge.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67

Facilities

Gaelic name: Loch Laoicheart



Chronology Dates

03/05/1954Dingwall and Skye Railway
Lochluichart (new) and diversion open.
27/01/1964Dingwall and Skye Railway
Lochluichart (new) closed to goods.

News items

22/10/2023Picture: Scale of Storm Babet flooding raises fears of Highland railway disruption into working week [Inverness Courier]
02/12/2020Welcome to Scotland's most deserted station [Scotsman]