| Lochluichart | |
| Native Name: | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Loch Laoicheart |
| Symbol Location: | gb |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Borough: | Lochluichart, Highland |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Coordinates: | 57.6218°N -4.8091°W |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Manager: | ScotRail |
| Platforms: | 1 |
| Code: | LCC[1] |
| Original: | Dingwall and Skye Railway |
| Pregroup: | Highland Railway |
| Postgroup: | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| Years: | 1 August 1871 |
| Events: | Opened as Lochluichart High[2] |
| Years1: | 3 May 1954 |
| Events1: | Resited and renamed as 'Lochluichart |
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Lochluichart railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Lochluichart in the north of Scotland. The station is located at the north edge of Loch Luichart, 17miles from, between Garve and Achanalt.[3] ScotRail, which manages the station, operates all services.
The station was opened as Lochluichart High by the Dingwall and Skye Railway on 1 August 1871 as a private station for Lady Ashburton on the Lochluichart Estate. It became a public station by 1887.[4] Others suggest that it opened as a private station (under the name Lochluichart Lodge) in August 1870, becoming public (and renamed to Lochluichart High) in 1871.
In 1949, Lochluichart was planned to be relocated to allow the flooding of the area by the Glascarnoch-Luichart-Torr Achilty hydroelectric scheme.[5] On 3 May 1954, a new station was opened as Lochluichart as a result of a hydro electric scheme raising the level of Loch Luichart, constructed of red sandstone. The deviation required about 2miles on stone-pitched embankments and in rock cuttings, a 100feet bridge over the River Conon and a 36feet bridge.[6]
Facilities are incredibly basic, comprising just a shelter, a help point and a small car park. The station is step-free.[7] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
| Entries and exits | 302 | 171 | 306 | 267 | 440 | 218 | 392 | 324 | 442 | 400 | 612 | 482 | 608 | 532 | 632 | 180 | 198 | 24 | 130 | 182 |
Four trains each way call (on request) on weekdays/Saturdays and one each way all year on Sundays, plus a second from May to late September only.[9] [10]