Connel Ferry Station information from Railbrit.co.uk
This was a large station.
Today it has been reduced to a single platform.
Formerly the station had a main platform (with a bay platform at both ends) and an island platform with two faces.
There were signalboxes at either end and a large signal gantry at the west end.
This was the east facing junction for the Ballachulish Branch (Callander and Oban Railway). Today a goods siding, for oil, remains at the east end of the station.
When you have a double track main line and you want to add a third track for your new branch to Ballachulish, you widen your existing bridge by stitching in a new single track one alongside. Scene west of Connel Ferry station in June 2010. copyright Colin Miller [30⁄06⁄2010] | |
Connel Ferry bridge, in the early morning, from the east, June 2010. copyright Colin Miller [29⁄06⁄2010] | |
The end of the long-vanished west-facing bay at Connel Ferry, together with a close-up of the maker's plate imbedded in the edging. Photographed in June 2010, almost 44 years after closure of the Ballachulish branch. copyright Colin Miller [28⁄06⁄2010] |