Invergloy Platform railway station

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Invergloy Platform
General information
Location Inverness-shire
Scotland
Coordinates 56°57′18″N4°54′43″W / 56.9549°N 4.9119°W / 56.9549; -4.9119
Grid reference NN229885
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway
Pre-grouping Highland Railway
Key dates
1 July 1904Station opened
1 November 1911Station closed
1 August 1913Station re-opened
1 December 1933Station closed to passengers
31 December 1946Station closed for freight
Location
Invergloy Platform railway station

Invergloy Platform was a railway station in Inverness-shire, Scotland on the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway between 1904 and 1933.

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Overview

The station was opened on 1 July 1904 [1] on the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway which had opened 12 months previously. It was a single platform with a waiting shelter and was sometimes known as Invergloy Station. The station was operated by the Highland Railway from 1904 to 1907, and then by the North British Railway until 1922. [2] From 1923 it was operated by the London and North Eastern Railway.

It was expanded with two sidings put in for timber traffic during the First World War. [3]

It closed on 1 December 1933. [4]

Preceding stationDisused railwaysFollowing station
Gairlochy   Highland Railway
Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway 		  Invergarry

References

  1. ↑ Thomas, John (1984). The West Highland Railway (3rd ed.). David St John Thomas. p. 175. ISBN   0946537143.
  2. ↑ "Fort Augustus Railway. Departing Officials" . Inverness Courier. Scotland. 7 May 1907. Retrieved 29 July 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ V Boyd Carpenter, Fort Augustus Branch, L.N.E.R., in Railway Magazine, February 1940
  4. ↑ "Railway service closing next week" . Aberdeen Press and Journal. Scotland. 24 November 1933. Retrieved 30 July 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
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