Coire Odhar railway station
Corrour 
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| Scottish Gaelic: An Coire Odhar | |
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Corrour station
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| Location | |
| Place | Loch Ossian |
| Local authority | Highland |
| Coordinates | 56°45′37″N 4°41′27″W / 56.7602°N 4.6907°WCoordinates: 56°45′37″N 4°41′27″W / 56.7602°N 4.6907°W |
| Grid reference | NN356663 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CRR |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2012/13 |
 12,058 |
| 2013/14 |
 13,138 |
| 2014/15 |
12,856 |
| 2015/16 |
11,156 |
| 2016/17 |
11,092 |
| History | |
| Original company | West Highland Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North British Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| 7 August 1894 | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Corrour from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Corrour railway station is on the Crianlarich-Fort William/Mallaig branch of the West Highland Line. It is situated near Loch Ossian on the Corrour Estate, Highland Region (formerly Inverness-shire), Scotland. It is the highest mainline railway station in the United Kingdom. Its Scottish Gaelic name, displayed on signs at the station, is Coire Odhar, which means dun-coloured corrie.
The station is one of the most remote in the United Kingdom, at an isolated location on the northern edge of Rannoch Moor. The station is not accessible by any public roads. The nearest road, the B846 road from Loch Rannoch to Rannoch station, is a ten-mile (16 km) walk away by hill track, although Rannoch station itself is only 7¼ route-miles (11.5 km) away by rail. Vehicular access is by a 15-mile (24km) private road from a little west of Moy Lodge on the A86. Until the late 1980s the only electrical power at the station was through batteries and the only telephone was the railway system which linked Corrour only to the adjacent signalboxes, Rannoch and Tulloch, which were on the public telephone system. At 1,340 ft (408 m) above sea level the station provides a starting point for hill-walkers and Munro-baggers. There is accommodation and a bar/restaurant available at the station and an SYHA youth hostel just over a mile away (2 km) at the head of Loch Ossian.
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