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There is also a daily early morning service to Mallaig that starts at Fort William, with a similar return service in the evening, which connects with the Caledonian Sleeper. The regular Sunday service consists of two train per day each way between Glasgow and Mallaig, with the schedule in the peak season supplemented by one service between Fort ...
In June 1975 Fort William station was relocated, shortening the line a little, in connection with a road scheme. In 1987 Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) was installed on all of the West Highland Railway system, except for the Fort William station area. RETB enabled safe operation of the long single line sections without signalling staff at ...
Craigendoran to Fort William (opened 11 August 1894) [6] [7] [8] - West Highland Railway sponsored by the North British Railway; Crianlarich to Oban [9] - Callander and Oban Railway, operated by the Caledonian Railway. There is an additional section from Fort William (or a junction near Fort William) to Mallaig, built as the Mallaig Extension ...
The daily service departs Fort William at 10:15 and arrives at Mallaig at 12:25. The return from Mallaig departs at 14:10 arriving back into Fort William at 16:00. [ 3 ] The service crosses the additional afternoon train at Glenfinnan on Mondays to Fridays and this is the only regular crossing of two steam services passing each other on the ...
Mallaig railway station is a railway station serving the ferry port of Mallaig, Lochaber, in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is a terminus on the West Highland Line , 41 miles (66 km) by rail from Fort William and 164 miles (264 km) from Glasgow Queen Street . [ 4 ]
The Mallaig Extension Railway is a railway line in Highland, Scotland. It runs from Banavie Junction (New) on the Banavie Pier branch of the West Highland Railway to Mallaig . The previous "Banavie Junction" closer to Fort William was renamed "Mallaig Junction" upon opening of the Mallaig Extension Railway.
Completed in 1901, the West Highland Line links Mallaig railway station to Fort William, Oban and Glasgow. [6] The line was voted the top rail journey in the world by readers of the independent travel magazine Wanderlust in 2009, ahead of the iconic Trans-Siberian and the Cuzco to Machu Picchu line in Peru.
Helensburgh Upper railway station (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Eilidh Àrd) serves the town of Helensburgh, Scotland, on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde to the west of Glasgow. It is located in a residential area uphill from the town centre and is by far the smaller of the town's two stations.