Lybster railway station

Lybster
Lybster railway station in 2008
General information
Location	Lybster, Highland Scotland
Coordinates	58°18′16″N3°17′03″W / 58.3045°N 3.2841°W / 58.3045; -3.2841
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Opened	1 July 1903;122 years ago (1903-07-01)
Closed	3 April 1944;81 years ago (1944-04-03)
Original company	Wick and Lybster Railway
Pre-grouping	Wick and Lybster Railway operated by Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMS

Lybster was a railway station located on the Wick and Lybster Railway in the Highland area of Scotland. The station building now serves as the clubhouse for the Lybster golf course

History

The station was opened as part of the Wick and Lybster Railway on 1 July 1903. ^[1]

The station had a loop, a goods yard with several sidings and a 1½ ton crane to the south of the passenger facilities and a turntable accessed from the goods yard. ^{[2] [3]}

The station was host to a LMS caravan from 1937 to 1938. ^[4]

As with the other stations on the line, the station was closed from 3 April 1944. ^[1]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Terminus		Highland Railway Wick and Lybster Light Railway		Parkside Halt Station and Line closed

References

Notes

1. Butt (1995), p. 151
2. "Lybster station on OS 25inch map Caithness XXXIV.9 (Latheron)". National Library of Scotland. 1906. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
3. The Railway Clearing House (1970), p.351
4. McRae (1997), page 22

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
• McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN   1-870119-48-7.
• The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. ISBN   0-7153-5120-6.

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.