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Kentallen Station

Railway Station (20th Century)

Site Name Kentallen Station

Classification Railway Station (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Kentallen Railway Station; Holly Tree Hotel

Canmore ID 107540

Site Number NN05NW 11

NGR NN 0132 5835

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Lismore And Appin (Lochaber)
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Lochaber
  • Former County Argyll

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Holly Tree Hotel, 1902-3, Formans & McCall engineers, to designs by James Miller or Robert Wemyss The former Kentallen Station, designed in the same Glasgow Style as Ballachulish Station, but with an attached two-storey dwelling/office block with a part-brick exterior. A branch line linked it to a substantial stone pier, connecting up with the steamer service. Now converted as a hotel and restaurant, the signal box has been replaced with a restaurant, the platform concealed as an internal corridor.

[A holly tree was planted to mark every mile along the Ballachulish branch railway. With its steamer pier alongside, Kentallen was an important, albeit short-lived, interchange for travellers between Argyll and Lochaber.]

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

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