Garelochhead railwey station

Garelochhead railwey station (Scots Gaelic: Ceann a' Gheàrrloch) is a railwey station serrin the veelage o Garelochheid, on the Gare Loch, in Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line an is a mairch station for SPT.

Garelochhead
Scots Gaelic: Ceann a' Gheàrrloch
Location
Place	Garelochhead
Local authority	Argyll and Bute
Coordinates	56.0801°N 4.8254°W / 56.0801; -4.8254
Grid reference	NS242910
Operations
Station code	GCH
Managed bi	Abellio ScotRail
Nummer o platforms	2
Live arrivals/departurs, station information an onwart connections frae National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger uissage*
2013/14	5,256
2014/15	6,920
2015/16	7,806
2016/17	8,556
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Oreeginal company	West Highland Railway
Pre-groupin	North British Railway
Post-groupin	LNER
7 August 1894	Opened
Leetit status
Leetin grade	Category B
Entry nummer	LB19490
Addit tae leet	08 July 1988
National Rail – UK railwey stations
* Annual estimatit passenger uissage based on sales o tickets in statit financial year(s) that end or oreeginate at Garelochhead frae Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology mey vary year on year.
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History

This station appent tae passengers on 7 August 1894.

The station wis laid oot wi a crossin loop an an island platform. Thare war lies on baith sides, an a turntable on the wast side o the line. Till the 1960s, the station wis sert bi a local shuttle service atween Craigendoran an Arrochar & Tarbet in addeetion tae main line trains tae Fort William an Mallaig. Latterly operatit bi a Wickham diesel railbus, it fell veectim tae the Beeching Axe in Juin 1964.

The lie on the east side wis remuived in 1983. On 15 Februar 1987, the crossin loop wis altered tae richt-haund runnin. The oreeginal Doun platform haes sicweys become the Up platform, an vice versa. The change wis made tae simplify shuntin at this station, bi remuivin the need tae haund-pump the train-operatit loop pynts tae aiccess the lie.^{[citation needit]}

Signalling

Frae the time o its appenin in 1894, the West Highland Railway wis wrocht ootthrou bi the electric taiken system. Garelochhead signal box, whit haed 18 levers, wis situatit on the island platform.^{[citation needit]}

The semaphore seegnals war remuived on 2 Februar 1986 tae mak for the introduction o Radio Electronic Token Bloc] (RETB) bi British Rail. The RETB, whit is controlled frae a Signalling Centre at Banavie railwey station, wis commissioned atween Helensburgh Upper an Upper Tyndrum on 27 Mairch 1988.^{[citation needit]}

The Train Protection & Warning System wis instawed in 2003.^{[citation needit]}

Services

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Helensburgh Upper		Abellio ScotRail West Highland Line		Arrochar & Tarbet
Helensburgh Upper		Caledonian Sleeper Highland Caledonian Sleeper		Arrochar & Tarbet
	Historical railways
Shandon Line open; Station closed		West Highland Railway North British Railway		Whistlefield Halt Line open; Station closed

References

Soorces

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• RAILSCOT on the West Highland Railway Archived 2021-07-01 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Video footage o Garelochhead railwey station