Invergloy Platform railway station

Invergloy Platform
Invergloy Platform
General information
Location	Inverness-shire; Scotland
Coordinates	56°57′18″N 4°54′43″W / 56.9549°N 4.9119°W
Grid reference	NN229885
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Key dates
1 July 1904	Station opened
1 November 1911	Station closed
1 August 1913	Station re-opened
1 December 1933	Station closed to passengers
31 December 1946	Station closed for freight

Invergloy Platform was a railway station in Inverness-shire, Scotland on the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway between 1904 and 1933.

Overview

The station was opened on 1 July 1904^[1] on the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway which had opened 12 months previously. It was a single platform with a waiting shelter and was sometimes known as Invergloy Station. The station was operated by the Highland Railway from 1904 to 1907, and then by the North British Railway until 1922.^[2] From 1923 it was operated by the London and North Eastern Railway.

It was expanded with two sidings put in for timber traffic during the First World War.^[3]

It closed on 1 December 1933.^[4]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Gairlochy		Highland Railway Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway		Invergarry

^ Thomas, John (1984). The West Highland Railway (3rd ed.). David St John Thomas. p. 175. ISBN 0946537143.
^ "Fort Augustus Railway. Departing Officials". Inverness Courier. Scotland. 7 May 1907. Retrieved 29 July 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ V Boyd Carpenter, Fort Augustus Branch, L.N.E.R., in Railway Magazine, February 1940
^ "Railway service closing next week". Aberdeen Press and Journal. Scotland. 24 November 1933. Retrieved 30 July 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0