Beasdale railway station

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Beasdale
Biasdail
Beasdale station, looking east
Location
Place Glen Beasdale
Local authority Highland
Operations
Station code BSL
Managed by First ScotRail
Platforms in use 1
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2002/03 * 489
2004/05 * 349
2005/06 * 264
History
1901 Opened
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Beasdale from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Beasdale railway station is a railway station serving Glen Beasdale in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line. It was originally a private station for the nearby Arisaig House, but was open to the public from the beginning. It is currently a request stop.

By the later part of the century its main users were local school children who went to school at Lochaber High just outside Fort William.

It was not unknown on dark mornings for the driver to not see you until he had drawn level with you. You were then treated to the sights and sounds of a hard braking train disappearing around the bend before it got stopped, then reversing back to pick you up.

The derelict station house was sold in the 1980s and is now a private holiday home but the station platform is still railway property with a bus shelter type shelter providing rudimentary cover from the rain.

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  Preceding station     National Rail     Following station  
Lochailort   First ScotRail
West Highland Line
  Arisaig
Historical Railways
Lochailort
Line and Station open
  Mallaig Extension Railway
North British Railway
  Arisaig
Line and Station open