Archaeology Notes

Event ID 819849

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/819849

NH30NE 49 3824 0935 and 3826 0937

Landing Stage [NAT] (at NH 3824 0935)

OS (GIS) MasterMap, August 2011.

Location formerly entered as centred NH 3824 0935

Not to be confused with Fort Augustus Station (NH 3793 0914), for which see NH30NE 42.

The Loch Ness mail steamers used to use this pier, which is situated on the N side of the canal as it flows into Loch Ness, as this obviated the necessity of negotiating the locks or having to attempt the impossible task of reversing down the channel.

G Hutton 1992.

This station was the short-lived terminus of the short-lived Spean Bridge - Fort Augustus branch of the (former) North British Rly. It was opened by the Inverness and Fort Augustus Rly on 22 July 1903, and closed to regular passenger traffic on 1 October 1906.

R V J Butt 1995.

This pier, situated on the N side of the canal as it enters Loch Ness, is visible on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1874, sheet lxviii), is marked as a pier on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1904, sheet lxviii) and marked as a landing-stage on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971) and on the OS Basic Scale raster map (ND).

Information from RCAHMS (MD), 20 September 2001.