Locheilside railway station

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History

Locheilside station opened on 1 April 1901.[2]

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939.[3]

Facilities

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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.[4] 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[5]
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 Template:Rws, though one each way only runs between Mallaig and Fort William.[6][7]

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Loch Eil Outward Bound style="background:#Template:ScotRail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   ScotRail
West Highland Line
style="background:#Template:ScotRail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Glenfinnan
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Corpach
Line and Station open
  North British Railway
Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
  Glenfinnan
Line and Station open

References

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  2. Butt (1995)
  3. McRae (1997), page 11
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  6. eNRT May 2022 Edition, Table 218
  7. eNRT December 2021 Edition, Table 218

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Bibliography

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External links

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