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

Invergloy Platform
General information
Location	Inverness-shire Scotland
Coordinates	56.9549°N 4.9119°W / 56.9549; -4.9119
Grid reference	NN229885
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Key dates
1 July 1904	Station opened
1 November 1911	Station closed
1 August 1913	Station re-opened
1 December 1933	Station closed to passengers
31 December 1946	Station closed for freight

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 station		Disused railways		Following station
Gairlochy		Highland Railway Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway		Invergarry

External links

• Invergloy Platform station on navigable O. S. map

References

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1
• A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0

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