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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23551
- Council Highland
- Parish Lismore And Appin (Lochaber)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
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
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
Ballachulish Station opened 24.8.1903 (Callander and Oban Railway); closed 26.3.1966.
