Garve railway station explained

Garve
Native Name:Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Gairbh
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Garve, Highland
Country:Scotland
Coordinates:57.613°N -4.6883°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:ScotRail
Platforms:2
Code:GVE[1]
Original:Dingwall and Skye Railway
Pregroup:Highland Railway
Postgroup:LMS
Years:19 August 1870
Events:Opened
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Garve railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Garve in the north of Scotland. Garve is located at the eastern edge of Loch Garve, measured 11miles from Dingwall, and is the first stop on the line before Lochluichart.[2] ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.

History

The station was opened on 19 August 1870. It was to be the junction for the Garve and Ullapool Railway, intended to connect Ullapool, the Western Isles' nearest mainland port, with the rest of the UK. An act of parliament was passed for the line in 1890, but in spite of local efforts in that year, and again two years later, the idea could not be fully financed and was abandoned.

Facilities

Facilities here are basic, comprising shelters and benches, and a small car park (as well as bike racks). There is step-free access to both platforms, but not between them (as only a footbridge connects them).[3]

Platform layout

The station is 11miles from, and has a passing loop 20chain long, flanked by two platforms which can each accommodate a five-coach train. The first of the Kyle line's three passing loops is located here and trains are occasionally timetabled to cross, though the loop points work automatically and all movements are controlled using the Radio Electronic Token Block system which was installed by British Rail and is supervised from the signalling centre at .

Passenger volume

Passenger Volume at Garve[4] !!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!2021–22!2022–23
Entries and exits7,1287,0929,4719,6909,8478,5466,8985,8145,0385,3845,0285,0764,6763,6684,3023,2123,4804262,5603,290
The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

From Monday to Saturday, there are four daily services to and four daily services in the opposite direction to . There is one service in each direction on Sundays all year, with a second during the summer months only.[5] [6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Deaves . Phil . Railway Codes . railwaycodes.org.uk . 27 September 2022.
  2. Book: TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain . Platform 5 Publishing Ltd . 2017 . 978-1909431-26-3 . Bridge . Mike . 3rd . Sheffield . 98.
  3. Web site: National Rail Enquiries - . 2022-08-23 . www.nationalrail.co.uk.
  4. Web site: Estimates of station usage ORR Data Portal . 25 December 2023 . dataportal.orr.gov.uk.
  5. eNRT May 2022 Edition, Table 219
  6. eNRT December 2021 Edition, Table 219