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 The station entrance, 2017 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Fort William, Highland Scotland | ||||
| Coordinates | 56°49′15″N 5°06′17″W / 56.8207°N 5.1047°W | ||||
| Grid reference | NN105741 | ||||
| Managed by | ScotRail | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | FTW[2] | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | British Rail | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 7 August 1894 | First station opened | ||||
| 9 June 1975 | First station closed | ||||
| 13 June 1975 | Present station opened[3][page needed] | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  0.140 million | ||||
| Interchange | 377 | ||||
| 2020/21 | 22,316 | ||||
| Interchange | 39 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.114 million | ||||
| Interchange | 197 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.146 million | ||||
| Interchange | 204 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.192 million | ||||
| Interchange | 323 | ||||
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Fort William railway station serves the town of Fort William, in the Highland region of Scotland. It is on the West Highland line, between Spean Bridge and Banavie, measured 99 miles 37 chains (160.1 km) from Craigendoran Junction, at the southern end of the line near Helensburgh.[4] The station is managed by ScotRail, who operate most services from the station; Caledonian Sleeper and The Jacobite, an excursion operated by West Coast Railways, also use the station.
- ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
- ^ Deaves, Phil. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ^ Butt 1995.
- ^ 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. 90. ISBN 978-1909431-26-3.