Drochaid An Aonachain Railway Station

Spean Bridge railway station is a railway station serving the village of Spean Bridge in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line. HistoryThe station opened on 7 August 1894 and was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There are sidings on the north side of the station. The station buildings were designed by James Miller. Between 1903 and December 1933, there was a branch line from this station which offered service north up the Great Glen to Fort Augustus, terminating at a pier on Loch Ness. The North British railway extended Spean Bridge adding a dock platform at the west end at a cost of £303 0s 5d to accommodate Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway trains. The signalling instruments were moved from the I& FA box at the junction to the booking office at the insistence of the Board of Trade inspector. The I& FA line was not successful. Passenger services stopped in 1933 and the line was eventually abandoned completely in 1947. On 18 January 1987, the crossing loop was altered to right-hand running. The original Down platform has thus become the Up platform, and vice versa. The change was made in order to simplify shunting at this station, by removing the need to hand-pump the train-operated loop points to access the sidings.

Spean Bridge railway station is a railway station serving the village of Spean Bridge in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line. HistoryThe station opened on 7 August 1894 and was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There are sidings on the north side of the station. The station buildings were designed by James Miller. Between 1903 and December 1933, there was a branch line from this station which offered service north up the Great Glen to Fort Augustus, terminating at a pier on Loch Ness. The North British railway extended Spean Bridge adding a dock platform at the west end at a cost of £303 0s 5d to accommodate Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway trains. The signalling instruments were moved from the I& FA box at the junction to the booking office at the insistence of the Board of Trade inspector. The I& FA line was not successful. Passenger services stopped in 1933 and the line was eventually abandoned completely in 1947. On 18 January 1987, the crossing loop was altered to right-hand running. The original Down platform has thus become the Up platform, and vice versa. The change was made in order to simplify shunting at this station, by removing the need to hand-pump the train-operated loop points to access the sidings.