Invergloy_Platform_railway_station

Invergloy Platform railway station

Invergloy Platform railway station

Railway station in Scotland

Invergloy Platform was a railway station in Inverness-shire, Scotland on the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway between 1904 and 1933.

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Overview

The station was opened on 1 July 1904[1] on the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway which had opened 12 months previously. It was a single platform with a waiting shelter and was sometimes known as Invergloy Station. The station was operated by the Highland Railway from 1904 to 1907, and then by the North British Railway until 1922.[2] From 1923 it was operated by the London and North Eastern Railway.

It was expanded with two sidings put in for timber traffic during the First World War.[3]

It closed on 1 December 1933.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    Thomas, John (1984). The West Highland Railway (3rd ed.). David St John Thomas. p. 175. ISBN 0946537143.
  2. [2]
    "Fort Augustus Railway. Departing Officials". Inverness Courier. Scotland. 7 May 1907. Retrieved 29 July 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. [3]
    V Boyd Carpenter, Fort Augustus Branch, L.N.E.R., in Railway Magazine, February 1940
  4. [4]
    "Railway service closing next week". Aberdeen Press and Journal. Scotland. 24 November 1933. Retrieved 30 July 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1
  • A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0
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