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Appin
Remains of Appin station
Location
Place	Portnacroish
Area	Argyll and Bute
Operations
Original company	Callander and Oban Railway Ballachulish Branch
Pre-grouping	Callander and Oban Railway operated by Caledonian Railway
Platforms	2
History
20 August 1903	Opened
23 March 1966	Closed
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Appin was a railway station in Scotland, close to the Sound of Shuna on the east shore of Loch Linnhe near Portnacroish in Argyll and Bute.

History

This station opened on 20 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, the Ballachulish Branch was worked by the electric token system. Appin signal box was located on the Down platform, on the west side of the railway. It had 24 levers.

Sources

• 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 Edition ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 

• Fryer, Charles (1989). The Callander and Oban Railway. Oxford: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-8536-1377-X. OCLC 21870958. 

• 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. 

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Coordinates: 56°34′16″N 5°22′49″W / 56.57114, -5.38039