Tulloch railway station

Tulloch
Scottish Gaelic: An Tulach
Tulloch station, looking east (towards Glasgow)
Location
Place	Tulloch
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates	56°53′03″N 4°42′04″W / 56.8841°N 4.7012°WCoordinates: 56°53′03″N 4°42′04″W / 56.8841°N 4.7012°W
Grid reference	NN354802
Operations
Station code	TUL
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	2,216
2011/12	2,136
2012/13	2,124
2013/14	2,046
2014/15	1,998
History
Original company	West Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
7 August 1894	Opened as Inverlair
1 January 1895	Renamed as Tulloch
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Tulloch from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Tulloch railway station is a rural railway station in the remote Tulloch area of the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, 105 miles (169 km) north of Glasgow Queen Street.

History

The station was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There are sidings on the north side of the station. When the railway opened in 1894 the station was named Inverlair, after the nearby Inverlair Lodge.

The station buildings are now used as a hostel.^[1]

Signalling

The signal box, which had 15 levers, was situated on the Up platform. From the time of its opening in 1894, the West Highland Railway was worked throughout by the electric token system.

The semaphore signals were removed on 23 February 1986 in preparation for the introduction of Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) by British Rail.

The RETB system was commissioned between Upper Tyndrum and Fort William Junction on 29 May 1988. This resulted in the closure of Tulloch signal box and others on that part of the line. The RETB is controlled from a Signalling Centre at Banavie railway station.

The Train Protection & Warning System was installed in 2003.

Services

2012 services

Monday to Saturday, northbound, Tulloch has three services to Mallaig and one service to Fort William (Highland Caledonian Sleeper). Southbound, there are three services to Glasgow Queen Street and one service to London Euston (Highland Caledonian Sleeper, Saturdays excepted). On Sundays, there is just one service northbound to Mallaig (two in summer), one service southbound to Glasgow Queen Street (two in summer) and one service (Highland Caledonian Sleeper) to London Euston.

References

Notes

1. Tulloch Station Lodge

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.

Further reading

• "Tulloch station restored as a quality bunkhouse". RAIL. No. 333 (EMAP Apex Publications). 17–30 June 1998. p. 16. ISSN 0953-4563. OCLC 49953699.