View from SSE showing Fort William - Glasgow train approaching

Description View from SSE showing Fort William - Glasgow train approaching

Date 8/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 766712

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Ardlui Station, Argyll & Bute This shows a Fort William to Glasgow train entering Ardlui Station. The track on the right is a goods siding, and on the left is the north-bound side of the passing loop. The rodding beside the centre track operate the points at the end of the loop, and controls a locking device protecting the points. The West Highland Railway, opened in 1894, and its extension to Mallaig are still in operation, but the signalling is now radio controlled, so that the point rodding seen here has gone. The main station building at Ardlui has been demolished, and the signal box has become the platform shelter. This station is on the West Highland Railway, which runs from Craigendoran to Fort William. It runs through difficult terrain, and is single-track, with passing places. Most of the stations have an island platform in the middle of the passing loop, and timber station buildings in Swiss Chalet style, including Ardlui. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/49/40

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/766712

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap