Corpach railway station

Coordinates: 56°50′34″N 5°07′20″W / 56.8428°N 5.1221°W / 56.8428; -5.1221
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Corpach
General information
Other namesScottish Gaelic: A' Chorpaich[1]
LocationHighland
Coordinates56°50′34″N 5°07′20″W / 56.8428°N 5.1221°W / 56.8428; -5.1221
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeCPA
History
Original companyMallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
Pre-groupingNorth British Railway
Post-groupingLNER
Key dates
1 April 1901Station opened[2]

Corpach railway station is a railway station serving the village of Corpach in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line.

History

Corpach station opened on 1 April 1901.[2] It has one platform, on the north side of the railway.[3][4]

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939.[5] A camping coach was also positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1961 to 1969, the coach was a Pullman camping coach until 1964 and a standard one thereafter, all camping coaches in the region were withdrawn at the end of the 1969 season.[6]

Services

Three services call here each way on weekdays & Saturdays and two or three (depending on the time of year) on Sundays. These are mostly through trains between Mallaig and Glasgow Queen Street, though one way only runs between Mallaig and Fort William which then connects to the sleeper to London Euston[7]

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

References

Notes

  1. ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ^ a b Butt (1995)
  3. ^ "Corpach station on OS six-inch map Inverness-shire - Mainland Sheet CL (includes: Ardgour; Kilmallie)". National Library of Scotland. 1959. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Corpach". National Rail Enquiries. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  5. ^ McRae (1997), page 11
  6. ^ McRae (1998), pages 28 & 29
  7. ^ Table 227 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Sources

Further reading

  • 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.


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