Mallaig railway station

Mallaig
Malaig
Location
Place	Mallaig
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates	57°00′22″N 5°49′48″W / 57.006°N 5.830°W / 57.006; -5.830Coordinates: 57°00′22″N 5°49′48″W / 57.006°N 5.830°W / 57.006; -5.830
Operations
Station code	MLG
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	64,300
2004/05 *	69,779
2005/06 *	66,193
2006/07 *	67,393
2007/08 *	62,984
2008/09 *	86,608
History
Original company	Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
1 April 1901	Station opened[1]
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Mallaig from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Mallaig railway station is a railway station serving the ferry port of Mallaig, Lochaber, in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is a terminus on the West Highland Line, 66 kilometres (41 mi) from Fort William and 264 kilometres (164 mi) north of Glasgow Queen Street railway station.

History

The station in 1973

Mallaig station opened on 1 April 1901.^[1]

The station was laid out as an island platform with tracks on either side. There were sidings on both sides, and a turntable to the south of the station, on the east side of the line.

Services

A train to Glasgow

Monday to Saturdays currently, four trains a day depart from Mallaig for Fort William and three of them go on further to Glasgow. Monday to Friday, a steam train operated by the West Coast Railway Company known as "The Jacobite" operates to Fort William also. (See picture to the right)

On Sundays during the summer four trains depart Mallaig including the "The Jacobite" though from October over winter only one train leaves for Fort William and Glasgow.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Morar		First ScotRail West Highland Line		Terminus
Arisaig		West Coast Railway Company The Jacobite May-October		Terminus
	Historical railways
Morar Line and Station open		North British Railway West Highland Railway (Mallaig Extension Railway)		Terminus

Ferry services

Ferries depart from this port to Armadale, Isle of Skye and to the Small Isles (Rùm, Eigg, Muck and Canna).

Signalling

One of the semaphore signals removed in 1982

From the time of its opening in 1901, the Mallaig Line was worked throughout by the electric token system. Mallaig signal box was situated south of the station, on the east side of the line.

On 14 March 1982, the method of working on the section between Arisaig and Mallaig was changed to One Train Working (with train staff). Mallaig signal box was closed as a token station, but retained as a ground frame with four levers. All the semaphore signals were removed.

On 6 December 1987 the Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) system was commissioned between Mallaig Junction (now called 'Fort William Junction') and Mallaig. The RETB is controlled from a Signalling Centre at Banavie railway station.

In November 1992, the former signal box was demolished and replaced by an ordinary ground frame.

The Train Protection & Warning System was installed in 2003.

References

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Butt (1995)

Sources

• 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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• RAILSCOT on Mallaig Extension Railway