Ballachulish & Glencoe railway station

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Ballachulish & Glencoe
Location
Location	Glencoe
Area	Highland
Operations
Original company	Callander and Oban Railway Ballachulish Branch
Pre-grouping	Callander and Oban Railway operated by Caledonian Railway
Platforms	2
History
20 August 1903	Opened
23 March 1966	Closed
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Ballachulish & Glencoe was a railway station on the south shore of Loch Leven at Glencoe in Highland.

[edit] History

This station opened on 20 August 1903 with two platforms. There was a goods yard on the north side of the station.

The station was closed in 1966, when the Ballachulish Branch of the Callander and Oban Railway was closed.

[edit] Signalling

Throughout its existence, the Ballachulish Branch was worked by the electric token system. Ballachulish signal box was located west of the platforms, on the north side of the railway. It had 21 levers.

[edit] 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, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 

• Fryer, Charles (1989). The Callander and Oban Railway. Oxford: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-8536-1377-X. OCLC 21870958. 

• Jowett, Alan (1989). Jowett's railway atlas of Great Britain and Ireland : from pre-grouping to the present day, 1st, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 

Preceding station	Historical Railways			Following station
Ballachulish Ferry Line and station closed		Callander and Oban Railway Ballachulish Branch Caledonian Railway		Terminus