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Ballachulish Station

Railway Station (19th Century), Surgery (20th Century)

Site Name Ballachulish Station

Classification Railway Station (19th Century), Surgery (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Ballachulish Railway Station; Glencoe Station; Surgery

Canmore ID 23551

Site Number NN05NE 8

NGR NN 0830 5838

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

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Former Ballachulish Station, 1903, engineers Formans & McCall, to designs by James Miller or Robert Wemyss The best of a series of station buildings in the Glasgow Style, with distinctive swept roofs decorated with red ridge tiles and ball finials, stylised buttressing, half-circular windows and curvy platform fenestration. Imaginatively converted to a doctor's surgery by Kerr Brown, 1993 (APRS Award).

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

Archaeology Notes

NN05NE 8.00 0830 5830

NN05NE 8.01 NN 08249 58437 Railway Engine Shed; Railway Goods Shed

Caledonian Railway, Ballachulish Branch, opened 21 August 1903; closed completely 28 March 1966.

J Thomas 1966; D Kennedy 1971; C E J Fryer 1989

The station building has been refurbished completely and is now in use as the local surgery.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE), 2 February 2007

Architecture Notes

Ballachulish Station opened 24.8.1903 (Callander and Oban Railway); closed 26.3.1966.

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