View from SSW showing front of signal-box

Description View from SSW showing front of signal-box

Date 8/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 766722

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Rannoch Station, Perth & Kinross This shows the signal box at the north end of the island platform. It is of the standard West Highland type, and housed the levers for operating the points and signals at the station, and the instruments for communicating with adjacent stations, and for controlling single-line working. The West Highland Railway, opened in 1894, and its extension to Mallaig are still in operation, but the signalling is now radio controlled. The station building here has been extended to the rear to become a restaurant, retaining its original frontage to the platform. 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 Rannoch. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/49/2

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/766722

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