Lairg, Station And Station Cottage
Railway Station (19th Century) (1868), Station Masters House (19th Century)
Site Name Lairg, Station And Station Cottage
Classification Railway Station (19th Century) (1868), Station Masters House (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Lairg Station; Lairg, Station Cottage
Canmore ID 5131
Site Number NC50SE 65
NGR NC 58266 03904
NGR Description Centred NS 58266 03904
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5131
- Council Highland
- Parish Lairg
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC50SE 65.00 centred 58266 03904
Lairg Station [NAT]
Station Cottage [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, October 2010.
NC50SE 65.01 Centred NC 58411 04121 Lairg, Station, Signal Box and Level-crossing
NC50SE 65.01 NC 58424 04102 Station House
(Location cited as NC 588 039). Lairg Station, opened 1868 by the Sutherland Rly. A two-platform through station with the main offices on the up platform in a one-storey and attic building on an L plan, with dormer windows. Ancillary buildings, all wooden, include two signal boxes, and two platform shelters, one of them open-soided. There is a standard lattice-girder footbridge.
This station is virtually identical with that at Invershin (NH59NE 35).
J R Hume 1977.
This intermediate station on the Inverness - Georgemas Junction - Wick and Thurso ('Far North') line of the former Highland Rly. was opened (by the Sutherland Rly.) on 13 April 1868. It remains in regular use by passenger traffic.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 August 2000.
R V J Butt 1995.
