Beasdale railway station is a railway station serving Glen Beasdale in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, sited 28 miles 49 chains (46.0 km) from the former Banavie Junction, between Lochailort and Arisaig.[4] ScotRail manage the station and operate all services.

Beasdale Scottish Gaelic: Biasdail[1]
The station seen in 2012
General information
Location	Glen Beasdale, Highland Scotland
Coordinates	56.9001°N 5.7640°W / 56.9001; -5.7640
Grid reference	NM709850
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	BSL[2]
History
Original company	Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
1 April 1901	Station opened[3]
6 September 1965	became public station
Passengers
2016/17	312
2017/18	418
2018/19	342
2019/20	324
2020/21	0
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

This section does not cite any sources. (August 2022)

It was originally a private station for the nearby Arisaig House but was open to the public from 6 September 1965.

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.

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.

Facilities

The station is equipped with a bench, a shelter and a help point, with a small car park adjacent to the station.[5]

Passenger volume

Beasdale was one of six railway stations in Britain to see zero passengers in the 2020/21 period, due to decreased travel throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It is therefore Britain's joint-least-used station alongside Abererch, Llanbedr, Sampford Courtenay, Stanlow and Thornton and Sugar Loaf.

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

There are four trains per day to Mallaig on Monday to Saturday, and three trains on Sunday. In the opposite direction, there are three through trains per day to Glasgow Queen Street (via Fort William) and one train per day to Fort William with a connecting train to Glasgow, Edinburgh and London Euston. On Sunday there are two Glasgow trains and one to Fort William.[7][8]

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

References

Bibliography

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• 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.
• 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.

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