The Ballachulish Railway Line

[rogerfarnworth]

Another of those magazines at Christmas time (2018). This time it was an old "Hornby Magazine" from 2012. This was originally intended to be a short reflection on the Ballachulish Line but it is developing into something much longer. There will be three parts to this story!

 

This is the first post:

 

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/01/01/the-ballachulish-railway-line-part-1

[rogerfarnworth]

In Part 1 of this story we covered much about the history of the line between Connel Ferry and Ballachulish. We start Part 2 with a few reminders of what was covered in Part 1 and provide some additional material from various sources before continuing our journey North along the branch.

 

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/01/02/the-ballachulish-railway-line-part-2

[rogerfarnworth]

This is the third of three posts planned to cover the Ballachulish Branch. It includes the final length of the line approaching Ballachulish, some details about the quarries and a November 1950 article about the line which has been taken from The Railway Magazine of that date. 

 

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/01/05/the-ballachulish-railway-line-part-3

[NCB]

Well done. A line close to my heart! I've a pic of Ballachulish station taken in 1963 on Geograph:

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2931926

I caught a train from there to Ballachulish Ferry before hitch-hiking to Fort William. It was diesel hauled by then. I also took a pic of the Creagan Bridge from Loch Creran, in 1987:

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2448397

I've an idea the bridge was being used as a footpath then, but not certain. Before the road bridge was built, the A828 ran around Loch Creran, at the head of which it was prone to flooding at high tides.

[ejstubbs]

Interesting information - but this is a duplicate of your thread of 5th January, isn't it?

 

 

[rogerfarnworth]

It might be. There were some problems with posts disappearing from the forum, or seemed to be, over the past week. In most cases I eventually found the posts. I thought I had posted this before but could not find it on the forum. Please accept my apologies.

Edited February 5, 2019 by rogerfarnworth