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Muir Of Ord, Corrie Road, Station
Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Muir Of Ord, Corrie Road, Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Muir Of Ord Station; Station View
Canmore ID 107836
Site Number NH55SW 61
NGR NH 52737 50161
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/107836
- Council Highland
- Parish Urray (Ross And Cromarty)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH55SW 61.00 52737 50161
Muir of Ord Station [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, June 2009.
NH55SW 61.01 NH 52727 50312 Signal Box
NH55SW 61.02 NH 52742 50207 Footbridge
For Station House (NH 52710 502080), see NH55SW 840.
Location formerly entered as NH 5273 5015.
(Location cited as NH 528 501). Muir of Ord Station, built 1894 by the Highland Rly. A 2-platform through station, formerly with 2-bay platforms. The offices are on the down platform, in a 1-storey harled building, with full-length awnings with glazed sidescreens. There is a small goods yard with a wooden goods shed and a post crane, by Butters Bros, Glasgow, with a lattice jib. Formerly junction station for the Fortrose branch.
J R Hume 1977.
This intermediate station on the Inverness - Wick and Thurso ('Far North') line of the (former) Highland Rly. was opened on 11 June 1862 by the Inverness and Ross-shire Rly; it closed to regular passenger traffic on 13 June 1960 and was re-opened on 4 October 1976. From 1 February 1894 it was the junction station for the Fortrose ('Black Isle') branch of the Highland Rly., which closed to passengers on 1 October 1951 and completely on 13 June 1960.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 December 2003.
H A Vallance 1985; R V J Butt 1995.
