Place Portnacroish Post-grouping LMS Platforms in use 2 | Area Argyll and Bute 24 August 1903 Opened | |
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Original company Callander and Oban Railway
Ballachulish Branch Pre-grouping Callander and Oban Railway operated by Caledonian Railway Similar Benderloch railway station, Creagan railway station, Kentallen railway station, Ballachulish Ferry railway st, Ballachulish railway station | ||
Appin was a railway station in Scotland, close to the Sound of Shuna on the east shore of Loch Laiche - an arm of Loch Linnhe, Portnacroish, Appin in Argyll and Bute.
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History
This station opened on 24 August 1903. It was laid out with two platforms, one on either side of a crossing loop. There were sidings on both sides of the line.
Opened by the Callander and Oban Railway, it joined the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
It was then closed by the British Railways Board in 1966, when the Ballachulish Branch of the Callander and Oban Railway was closed.
The station had been the location of a camping coach.
Signalling
Throughout its existence, signalling on the Ballachulish Branch used the electric token system. Appin signal box was located on the Down platform, on the west side of the railway. It had 24 levers.