Rannoch railway station
Rannoch 
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| Scottish Gaelic: Raineach | |
Rannoch railway station viewed from the footbridge
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| Location | |
| Place | Rannoch |
| Local authority | Perth and Kinross |
| Coordinates | 56°41′09″N 4°34′37″W / 56.6859°N 4.5770°WCoordinates: 56°41′09″N 4°34′37″W / 56.6859°N 4.5770°W |
| Grid reference | NN422578 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | RAN |
| 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* | |
| 2011/12 |
 9,130 |
| 2012/13 |
8,266 |
| 2013/14 |
 9,486 |
| 2014/15 |
9,434 |
| 2015/16 |
8,378 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Rannoch from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Rannoch railway station, on the West Highland Line, serves the area of Rannoch in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Its remote location on Rannoch Moor is picturesque and makes it attractive to walkers. The station has a tea room and visitor centre.
Although the railway links the station with Glasgow and Fort William on the West Highland Line, the station area is otherwise more closely linked, by road, with central Highland towns and villages on or near the A9 road. The B846 road meets the A9 between Pitlochry and Blair Atholl, about 34 miles (55 km) east of the station.
When the West Highland Line was built across Rannoch Moor, its builders had to float the tracks on a mattress of tree roots, brushwood and thousands of tons of earth and ashes to prevent the heavy steel tracks sinking in the bog.
Rannoch station opened to passengers on 7 August 1894.
The station was laid out with a crossing loop and an island platform. There were sidings on both sides, and a turntable on the east side of the line. The siding on the east side has been removed.
On 25 January 1987, the crossing loop was altered to right-hand running. The original Down platform has thus become the Up platform, and vice versa. The change was made in order to simplify shunting at this station, by removing the need to hand-pump the train-operated loop points to access the sidings.
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