Mallaig railway station

Mallaig railway station
Mallaig National Rail
Malaig
Mallaig
Location
Place Mallaig
Local authority Highland
Coordinates 57°00′22″N 5°49′48″W / 57.006°N 5.830°W / 57.006; -5.830Coordinates: 57°00′22″N 5°49′48″W / 57.006°N 5.830°W / 57.006; -5.830
Operations
Station code MLG
Managed by First ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *   64,300
2004/05 * increase 69,779
2005/06 * decrease 66,193
2006/07 * increase 67,393
2007/08 * decrease 62,984
2008/09 * increase 86,608
History
Original company Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
Pre-grouping North British Railway
Post-grouping LNER
1 April 1901 Station opened[1]
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Mallaig from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Mallaig railway station is a railway station serving the ferry port of Mallaig, Lochaber, in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is a terminus on the West Highland Line, 66 kilometres (41 mi) from Fort William and 264 kilometres (164 mi) north of Glasgow Queen Street railway station.

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History

The station in 1973

Mallaig station opened on 1 April 1901.[1]

The station was laid out as an island platform with tracks on either side. There were sidings on both sides, and a turntable to the south of the station, on the east side of the line.

Services

A train to Glasgow

Monday to Saturdays currently, four trains a day depart from Mallaig for Fort William and three of them go on further to Glasgow. Monday to Friday, a steam train operated by the West Coast Railway Company known as "The Jacobite" operates to Fort William also. (See picture to the right)

On Sundays during the summer four trains depart Mallaig including the "The Jacobite" though from October over winter only one train leaves for Fort William and Glasgow.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Morar   First ScotRail
West Highland Line
  Terminus
Arisaig   West Coast Railway Company
The Jacobite
May-October
  Terminus
Historical railways
Morar
Line and Station open
  North British Railway

West Highland Railway (Mallaig Extension Railway)

  Terminus

Ferry services

Ferries depart from this port to Armadale, Isle of Skye and to the Small Isles (Rùm, Eigg, Muck and Canna).

Signalling

One of the semaphore signals removed in 1982

From the time of its opening in 1901, the Mallaig Line was worked throughout by the electric token system. Mallaig signal box was situated south of the station, on the east side of the line.

On 14 March 1982, the method of working on the section between Arisaig and Mallaig was changed to One Train Working (with train staff). Mallaig signal box was closed as a token station, but retained as a ground frame with four levers. All the semaphore signals were removed.

On 6 December 1987 the Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) system was commissioned between Mallaig Junction (now called 'Fort William Junction') and Mallaig. The RETB is controlled from a Signalling Centre at Banavie railway station.

In November 1992, the former signal box was demolished and replaced by an ordinary ground frame.

The Train Protection & Warning System was installed in 2003.

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b Butt (1995)

Sources



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