Lochailort railway station

Lochailort
Scottish Gaelic: Loch Ailleart
Looking towards Mallaig
Location
Place	Lochailort
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates	56°52′53″N 5°39′48″W / 56.8814°N 5.6634°W / 56.8814; -5.6634Coordinates: 56°52′53″N 5°39′48″W / 56.8814°N 5.6634°W / 56.8814; -5.6634
Grid reference	NM768826
Operations
Station code	LCL
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12	2,830
2012/13	2,830
2013/14	2,186
2014/15	1,960
2015/16	1,706
History
Original company	Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
1 April 1901	Station opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lochailort from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Lochailort railway station is a railway station serving the village of Lochailort in the Highland Council area in Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line.

The station was constructed with two platforms and was an electric token block post, working to Glenfinnan on one side and Arisaig on the other, until the Up loop was lifted in 1966. The loops were lengthened during the Second World War and a new brick signal box erected, the foundations of which now can still be seen at the Arisaig end of the single platform now in use. The original station buildings were of a similar design to those at Glenfinnan and Arisaig but fell into disrepair after de-staffing and were demolished during the 1970s.

Four services call here each way on weekdays and Saturdays and either one or three each way (depending on the time of year) on Sundays. These are mostly through trains between Mallaig and Glasgow Queen Street, through one each way only runs between Mallaig and Fort William.