Strathcarron railway station

Strathcarron
Scottish Gaelic: Srath Carrann
265px
Location
Place	Strathcarron
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates
Grid reference	NG942421
Operations
Station code	STC
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	8,658
2005/06	9,289
2006/07	7,856
2007/08	8,585
2008/09	8,310
2009/10	8,234
2010/11	8,122
2011/12	11,010
2012/13	9,304
2013/14	8,950
History
19 August 1870	Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Strathcarron from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Strathcarron railway station is a remote railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the small village of Strathcarron and the larger village of Lochcarron in the Highlands, northern Scotland.

History

File:Stratchcarron 8 80487 1.jpg

Strathcarron station, August 1980

The station was built by Murdoch Paterson between 1869 and 1870. The station was opened to passengers on 19 August 1870 by the Dingwall and Skye Railway. The lattice-girder footbridge was built by the Rose Street Foundry in 1900.

Current use

One of the Kyle line's three passing loops is located at the station (and trains are sometimes scheduled to cross here), though the Radio Electronic Token Block signalling system used is remotely supervised from Inverness. The Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) was installed by British Rail.

Four trains per day each way call at the station Mon-Sat, with two each way on summer Sundays and a single service each way on Sundays in the winter months.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Achnashellach		Abellio ScotRail Kyle of Lochalsh Line		Attadale