Mid Fearn Halt railway station

Mid Fearn Halt
General information
LocationHighland
Scotland
Coordinates57°51′30″N 4°18′35″W / 57.85824°N 4.30968°W / 57.85824; -4.30968
Grid referenceNH 63058775
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyInverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway
Pre-groupingHighland Railway
Post-groupingLMSR
Key dates
1 October 1864 (1864-10-01)Opened
1 April 1865 (1865-04-01)Closed

Mid Fearn Halt was a small railway station in Mid Fearn in Ross-shire in Scotland. The station was provided to serve Fearn Lodge.

The station opened on 1 October 1864 when the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway opened its line from Invergordon to Ardgay (then known as Bonar Bridge).[a][1][2]

The station was short lived, closing on 1 April 1865.[2]

Despite its formal closure and withdrawal from the public timetables the halt was still used as a conditional stopping-place for the lodge and the wives and families of local railwaymen.[2][3]

The station was described as Mid Fearn Halt in the Railway Clearing House handbook of 1938[4] but had also been known as Mid Fearn Station[3] and West Fearn Platform .[5]

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Edderton
Line open, station closed
  Highland Railway
Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway
  Ardgay
Line and station open
  1. ^ a b Grant 2017, pp. 278–280.
  2. ^ a b c Quick 2023, p. 314.
  3. ^ a b Vallance & Clinker 1971, p. 28.
  4. ^ The Railway Clearing House 1938, p. 402.
  5. ^ Croughton, Kidner & Young 1982, p. 140.


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