Corpach railway station

Corpach railway station is a railway station serving the village of Corpach in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Banavie and Loch Eil Outward Bound, and is sited 1 mile 30 chains (2.2 km) from Banavie Junction, near Fort William.^[4] ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.

Corpach Scottish Gaelic: A' Chorpaich[1]
Corpach station viewed from the level crossing, June 2024
General information
Location	Corpach, Highland Scotland
Coordinates	56.8428°N 5.1221°W / 56.8428; -5.1221
Grid reference	NN096767
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	CPA[2]
History
Original company	Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
1 April 1901	Station opened[3]
Passengers
2018/19	2,814
2019/20	2,798
2020/21	428
2021/22	2,210
2022/23	2,858
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

Corpach station opened on 1 April 1901.^[3] Loch Eil lies immediately to the south of the station.

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939.^[5] A camping coach was also positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1961 to 1969, the coach was a Pullman camping coach until 1964 and a standard one thereafter, all camping coaches in the region were withdrawn at the end of the 1969 season.^[6]

Facilities

The station platform, June 2017

The single platform has a shelter, a bench and some bike racks. There is step-free access to a small car park.^[7] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.

Passenger volume

Passenger Volume at Corpach^[8]

	2002–03	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16	2016–17	2017–18	2018–19	2019–20	2020–21	2021–22	2022–23
Entries and exits	1,964	2,213	2,091	2,494	2,433	2,262	2,278	2,554	2,660	2,774	2,532	2,754	2,762	2,518	2,632	2,814	2,798	428	2,210	2,858

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

Four services call here each way on weekdays & Saturdays, and three on Sundays. These are mostly through trains between Mallaig and Glasgow Queen Street, though one eastbound train only runs as far as Fort William.^[9][10]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Banavie		ScotRail West Highland Line		Loch Eil Outward Bound
	Historical railways
Banavie Line and Station open		North British Railway Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway		Locheilside Line and Station open

References

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Deaves, Phil. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
3. Butt (1995)
4. Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1909431-26-3.
5. McRae (1997), page 11
6. McRae (1998), pages 28 & 29
7. "National Rail Enquiries -". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
8. "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
9. eNRT May 2022 Edition, Table 218
10. eNRT December 2021 Edition, Table 218

Bibliography

• 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. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 11. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
• McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.

• 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.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Train times and station information for Corpach railway station from National Rail
• RAILSCOT on Mallaig Extension Railway