Achanalt railway station

Achanalt
Location
Place	Achanalt
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates	57.6097°N 4.9137°W / 57.6097; -4.9137
Operations
Station code	AAT
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	1
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	192
2005/06 *	198
2006/07 *	173
2007/08 *	208
2008/09 *	230
2009/10 *	202
History
Original company	Dingwall and Skye Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMSR
19 August 1870	Station opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Achanalt from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Achanalt railway station is a remote railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Achanalt in the north of Scotland. There are four trains a day in each direction (one on Sundays) stopping here on request, connecting Achanalt with all stations between Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh.

History

The station was opened by the Dingwall and Skye Railway, but operated from the outset by the Highland Railway. Taken into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, the line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced, the station became part of ScotRail until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Service

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Lochluichart		First ScotRail Kyle of Lochalsh Line		Achnasheen
	Historical railways
Lochluichart (Old) Line open; Station closed		Dingwall and Skye Railway Highland Railway		Achnasheen Line and Station open

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Station on navigable O.S. map
• RailScot: Dingwall and Skye Railway