Invergloy Platform Railway Station
Invergloy Platform was a railway station in Inverness-shire, Scotland on the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway between 1904 and 1933.
Overview
The station was opened on 1 July 1904 on the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway which had opened 12 months previously. It was a single platform with a waiting shelter and was sometimes known as Invergloy Station. The station was operated by the Highland Railway from 1904 to 1907, and then by the North British Railway until 1922. From 1923 it was operated by the London and North Eastern Railway.
It was expanded with two sidings put in for timber traffic during the First World War.
It closed on 1 December 1933.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gairlochy | Highland Railway Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway |
Invergarry |
References
- ^ Thomas, John (1984). The West Highland Railway (3rd ed.). David St John Thomas. p. 175. ISBN 0946537143.
- ^ "Fort Augustus Railway. Departing Officials". Inverness Courier. Scotland. 7 May 1907. Retrieved 29 July 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ V Boyd Carpenter, Fort Augustus Branch, L.N.E.R., in Railway Magazine, February 1940
- ^ "Railway service closing next week". Aberdeen Press and Journal. Scotland. 24 November 1933. Retrieved 30 July 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
External links
- Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1
- A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0