Lairg railway station

Lairg railway station is a railway station just south of the village of Lairg in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line, 66 miles 78 chains (107.8 km) from Inverness, between Invershin and Rogart.[2]

Lairg

Scottish Gaelic: Luirg[1]
The view northward in 2009
General information
LocationLairg, Highland
Scotland
Coordinates58.0019°N 4.3998°W / 58.0019; -4.3998
Grid referenceNC582039
Managed byScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeLRG
History
Original companySutherland Railway
Pre-groupingHighland Railway
Post-groupingLMSR
Key dates
28 July 1874Open
Passengers
2016/17 5,576
2017/18 5,426
2018/19 6,016
2019/20 6,264
2020/21 742
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Highland Rail Partnership is based in the former booking office.

History
Lairg station in September 1973, with a postbus waiting.

The station opened on 28 July 1874, as part of the Sutherland Railway, later becoming part of the Highland Railway and later the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Until April 2009 the station provided an interchange point for postbus services to the remote communities of Durness, Kinlochbervie and Tongue, Highland.[3] Following considerable local opposition to the cancellation of the services they have now been replaced by temporary services operated, under contract from the Highland Council, by Stagecoach plc.[4] The future of the services has yet to be determined.

Facilities
Looking south from Lairg

Both platforms have waiting areas and benches, whilst there are also bike racks and a help point adjacent to platform 2. Platform 2 has step-free access from the car park, whilst platform 1 can only be accessed from the footbridge.[5] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.

Platform layout

Platform 1 on the southbound line can accommodate trains having six coaches, but platform 2 on the northbound line can only hold five.

Passenger volume
Passenger Volume at Lairg[6]
  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
Entries and exits 4,326 4,096 4,126 3,724 4,790 5,280 5,542 6,098 6,330 6,176 7,440 7,514 6,592 5,576 5,426 6,016 6,264 742

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

Four Inverness to Wick via Thurso trains call here each way on weekdays and Saturdays (along with a fifth Inverness departure southbound in the early morning) and a single departure each way on Sundays.[7]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Invershin or Ardgay   ScotRail
Far North Line		   Rogart

References
  1. Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
  2. 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. p. 102. ISBN 978 1909431 26 3.
  3. "End of road for remote post buses". 14 April 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  4. "Council to replace post services". 17 April 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  5. "National Rail Enquiries -". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  6. "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  7. eNRT December 2021 Edition, Table 219


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