Avoch railway station

Avoch
Location
Place	Black Isle
Area	Ross and Cromarty
Operations
Original company	Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMSR British Railways
Platforms	1
History
1 February 1894	Station opened
1 October 1951	Station closed to passengers
13 October 1960	Line closed
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Avoch railway station was a station on the single track branch of the Highland Railway, in north east Scotland. The line connected villages in The Black Isle peninsula to the railway network via a junction at Muir of Ord.

History

Opened by the Highland Railway in 1894, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by British Railways.

Authorisation was obtained on 4 July 1890 to build a 15.75 mile (25 km) branch line from Muir of Ord to Rosemarkie; however the line never proceeded beyond Fortrose.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Munlochy		Highland Railway Fortrose Branch		Fortrose

References

Sources

• Station on navigable O.S. map
• Vallance, H.A. (1985). The Highland Railway. 4th Extended edition: extra material by C.R. Clinker and Anthony J. Lambert. Newton Abbot: David St John Thomas. ISBN 0-946537-24-0.
• RAILSCOT article on the Fortrose Branch