Locheilside railway station

Locheilside railway station is a railway station on the northern shore of Loch Eil in the Highland Council Area of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Glenfinnan and Loch Eil Outward Bound, located 7 miles 79 chains (12.9 km) from the former Banavie Junction near Fort William. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.

Locheilside Scottish Gaelic: Taobh Loch Iall
The station seen in 2011
General information
Location	Loch Eil, Highland Scotland
Coordinates	56.8560°N 5.2903°W / 56.8560; -5.2903
Grid reference	NM994786
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	LCS
History
Original company	Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
1 April 1901	Station opened
Passengers
2019/20	508
2020/21	84
2021/22	378
2022/23	462
2023/24	418
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Not to be confused with Loch Eil Outward Bound railway station.

History

Locheilside station opened on 1 April 1901.

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939.

Facilities

The station as seen in 2007. The glass shelter seen here has been replaced with a wooden shelter.

The station has a shelter, a bench, a help point and cycle racks, adjacent to a small car park. The station has step-free access. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.

Passenger volume

Passenger Volume at Locheilside

	2002–03	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16	2016–17	2017–18	2018–19	2019–20	2020–21	2021–22	2022–23
Entries and exits	324	355	255	309	334	324	268	372	388	488	588	530	492	372	300	396	508	84	378	462

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

Four services call on request here each way on weekdays & Saturdays, and three each way on Sundays. These are mostly through trains between Mallaig and Glasgow Queen Street, though one each way only runs between Mallaig and Fort William.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Loch Eil Outward Bound		ScotRail West Highland Line		Glenfinnan
	Historical railways
Corpach Line and Station open		North British Railway Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway		Glenfinnan Line and Station open

Bibliography

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.

• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Train times and station information for Locheilside railway station from National Rail
• RAILSCOT on Mallaig Extension Railway