Tulloch railway station

Tulloch National Rail
Scottish Gaelic: An Tulach

Tulloch station, looking east (towards Glasgow)
Location
Place Tulloch
Local authority Highland
Coordinates 56°53′03″N 4°42′04″W / 56.8841°N 4.7012°W / 56.8841; -4.7012Coordinates: 56°53′03″N 4°42′04″W / 56.8841°N 4.7012°W / 56.8841; -4.7012
Grid reference NN354802
Operations
Station code TUL
Managed by Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11 Decrease 2,216
2011/12 Decrease 2,136
2012/13 Decrease 2,124
2013/14 Decrease 2,046
2014/15 Decrease 1,998
History
Original company West Highland Railway
Pre-grouping North British Railway
Post-grouping LNER
7 August 1894 Opened as Inverlair
1 January 1895 Renamed as Tulloch
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Tulloch from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Tulloch railway station is a rural railway station in the remote Tulloch area of the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, 105 miles (169 km) north of Glasgow Queen Street.

History

The station was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There are sidings on the north side of the station. When the railway opened in 1894 the station was named Inverlair, after the nearby Inverlair Lodge.

The station buildings are now used as a hostel.[1]

Signalling

The signal box, which had 15 levers, was situated on the Up platform. From the time of its opening in 1894, the West Highland Railway was worked throughout by the electric token system.

The semaphore signals were removed on 23 February 1986 in preparation for the introduction of Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) by British Rail.

The RETB system was commissioned between Upper Tyndrum and Fort William Junction on 29 May 1988. This resulted in the closure of Tulloch signal box and others on that part of the line. The RETB is controlled from a Signalling Centre at Banavie railway station.

The Train Protection & Warning System was installed in 2003.

Services

2016 services

Monday to Saturday, northbound, Tulloch has three services to Mallaig and one service to Fort William (the Highland Caledonian Sleeper). Southbound, there are three services to Glasgow Queen Street and one service to London Euston (Highland Caledonian Sleeper, Saturdays excepted). On Sundays, there is just one service northbound to Mallaig (plus a second from May to late October), one service southbound to Glasgow Queen Street (two in summer) and one service (Highland Caledonian Sleeper) to London Euston.[2] The sleeper also carries seated coaches and can thus be used by regular travellers to both Glasgow and Edinburgh Waverley.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Corrour   Abellio ScotRail
West Highland Line		   Roy Bridge
  Caledonian Sleeper
Highland Caledonian Sleeper		  
Historical railways
Fersit
Line open; station closed		   North British Railway
West Highland Railway
   Roy Bridge
Line and station open

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Tulloch Station Lodge
  2. ↑ GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 227 (Network Rail)

Sources

Further reading

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tulloch railway station.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/26/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.