Strathpeffer, Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Strathpeffer, Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Strathpeffer, Tourist Information Office; Strathpeffer, Craft Centre; Strathpeffer Station
Canmore ID 12460
Site Number NH45NE 61
NGR NH 48589 58388
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12460
- Council Highland
- Parish Fodderty
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH45NE 61 48589 58388
For former Strathpeffer Station (at Achterneed, NH 4910 5980), see NH45NE 69.
For Station House (NH 4855 5845), see NH45NE 136.
For Railway Cottage (NH 48661 58380), see NH45NE 148.
(Location cited as NH 486 583). Strathpeffer Station. Opened 1885 by the Highland Railway. A single-platform terminus. The platform building is a single-storey wooden structure with a a ten-bay glazed cast-iron awning on the platform side. Ther is also a wooden hipped roof goods shed of typical Highland Railway design
J R Hume 1977
Strathpeffer station opened on 3rd June 1885 as the terminus (and only station) on the Highland Railway branch from Dingwall (Fodderty Junction); the station on the Kyle of Lochalsh line that was originally named Strathpeffer was re-named Achterneed from the same date (NH45NE 69).
The station served the spa town and, after 1911, a railway hotel; it was, in consequence, always busiest in the tourist season. The station (and the branch) closed to regular passenger traffic on the 23rd February 1946.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 July 1991.
J Thomas 1977; G Daniels and L Dench 1980; H A Vallance 1985; J Thomas and D Turnock 1989.
Now craft workshops, by Murdoch Paterson, 1885.
J Gifford 1992.
