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Achnasheen railway station is a remote railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Achnasheen in the north of Scotland. The station is 27 miles 72 chains (44.9 km) from Dingwall, between Achanalt and Achnashellach.[4] ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.

Achnasheen

Scottish Gaelic: Achadh na Sìne[1]
General information
LocationAchnasheen, Highland
Scotland
Coordinates57.5793°N 5.0723°W / 57.5793; -5.0723
Grid referenceNH164585
Managed byScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeACN[2]
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
Original companyDingwall and Skye Railway
Pre-groupingHighland Railway
Post-groupingLMSR
Key dates
19 August 1870Station opened[3]
Passengers
2016/17 3,076
2017/18 3,310
2018/19 3,284
2019/20 3,234
2020/21 620
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History


Loco-hauled trains pass at Achnasheen, September 1973
Loco-hauled trains pass at Achnasheen, September 1973

The station was opened by the Dingwall and Skye Railway on 19 August 1870,[3] but operated from the outset by the Highland Railway. The station hotel was built by Alexander Ross and opened in 1871. It was extended by William Roberts in 1898[5] and again at the turn of the 21st century.

Taken into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, the line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

It was once an important railhead, handling passengers, mail and freight bound for parts of Wester Ross, including Gairloch and the Loch Torridon area. A proposal for a 35-mile-long (56 km) branch line to Aultbea, via Gairloch and Poolewe. Plans for the Loch Maree and Aultbea Railway was put to Parliament in 1893, but the proposal was rejected, as it deemed that the line would not be commercially viable in such a remote area. All freight in this area now travels by road. The station building still serves as a postal distribution point, but the mail travels from Inverness by road.

When sectorisation was introduced by British Rail, the station became part of ScotRail until the Privatisation of British Rail.


Facilities


Facilities here are very basic, consisting of shelters and benches on both platforms on both platforms, and a help point on platform 1, adjacent to a small car park. Unusually, for such a rural location, there are accessible toilets at the station.[6] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.


Platform layout


The station has a passing loop 28 chains (560 m) long, flanked by two platforms. Platform 1 on the eastbound line can accommodate trains having three coaches, whereas platform 2 on the westbound line can hold five.

The station is the location of one of the three passing loops on the line west of Dingwall and trains are sometimes timetabled to cross here. The loop was once controlled from signal boxes at each end of the station (a common method of working on the HR), but both were closed when Radio Electronic Token Block signalling was introduced by British Rail on the line in 1984. The loop is now supervised remotely from the power box at Inverness.


Passenger volume


Passenger Volume at Achnasheen[7]
2002-03 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21
Entries and exits 2,147 2,379 2,471 2,697 2,974 3,202 3,614 3,698 3,998 3,566 3,972 3,722 3,700 3,076 3,310 3,284 3,234 620

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.


Services


A ScotRail train departing Achnasheen station with a service bound for Kyle of Lochalsh
A ScotRail train departing Achnasheen station with a service bound for Kyle of Lochalsh

There are four trains a day in each direction (one on Sundays in winter, two in summer, depending on the time of year) stopping here, connecting Achnasheen with all stations between Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh.[8][9]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Achanalt   ScotRail
Kyle of Lochalsh Line
  Achnashellach
  Historical railways  
Achanalt
Line and Station open
  Highland Railway
Dingwall and Skye Railway
  Glencarron Platform
Line open; Station closed

References


  1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. Deaves, Phil. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  3. Butt (1995)
  4. Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. p. 98. ISBN 978 1909431 26 3.
  5. The Buildings of Scotland: Highlands: John Gifford. Yale University Press 2003. ISBN 0300096259 p.380
  6. "National Rail Enquiries -". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  7. "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  8. GB eNRT May 2016, Table 239
  9. eNRT December 2021 Edition, Table 219

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