Arisaig Train Station

Arisaig railway station serves the village of Arisaig on the west coast of the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, 34mi west of Fort William on the way to. The westernmost station on the National Rail network, it is the only one of the four cardinal points of the national network that is not a terminus. HistoryArisaig station opened on 1 April 1901. The station was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There is a siding on the south side of the line, east of the Down platform. Opened by the North British Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Rail. ServicesMonday to Saturdays currently four trains a day call at Arisaig on the way to Mallaig or Fort William, and three of the latter go on further to Glasgow. The last eastbound train of the day connects into the overnight sleeper to Glasgow, Edinburgh Waverley and London Euston at Fort William on weekdays. Sunday services are less frequent, with just one train each way in the winter and two extra in the summer.

Arisaig railway station serves the village of Arisaig on the west coast of the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, 34mi west of Fort William on the way to. The westernmost station on the National Rail network, it is the only one of the four cardinal points of the national network that is not a terminus. HistoryArisaig station opened on 1 April 1901. The station was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There is a siding on the south side of the line, east of the Down platform. Opened by the North British Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Rail. ServicesMonday to Saturdays currently four trains a day call at Arisaig on the way to Mallaig or Fort William, and three of the latter go on further to Glasgow. The last eastbound train of the day connects into the overnight sleeper to Glasgow, Edinburgh Waverley and London Euston at Fort William on weekdays. Sunday services are less frequent, with just one train each way in the winter and two extra in the summer.