| Locheilside | |
| Native Name: | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Taobh Loch Iall |
| Symbol Location: | gb |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Borough: | Loch Eil, Highland |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Coordinates: | 56.856°N -5.2903°W |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Manager: | ScotRail |
| Platforms: | 1 |
| Code: | LCS[1] |
| Original: | Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway |
| Pregroup: | North British Railway |
| Postgroup: | LNER |
| Years: | 1 April 1901 |
| Events: | Station opened |
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Locheilside railway station is a railway station on the northern shore of Loch Eil in the Highland Council Area of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Glenfinnan and Loch Eil Outward Bound, located 7miles from the former Banavie Junction near Fort William.[2] ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.
Locheilside station opened on 1 April 1901.[3]
The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939.[4]
The station has a shelter, a bench, a help point and cycle racks, adjacent to a small car park. The station has step-free access.[5] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
| Entries and exits | 324 | 355 | 255 | 309 | 334 | 324 | 268 | 372 | 388 | 488 | 588 | 530 | 492 | 372 | 300 | 396 | 508 | 84 | 378 | 462 |
Four services call on request here each way on weekdays & Saturdays, and three each way on Sundays. These are mostly through trains between Mallaig and, though one each way only runs between Mallaig and Fort William.[7] [8]