Scotscalder railway station

Scotscalder

Scottish Gaelic: Caladal nan Gall[1]
National Rail
The platform at Scotscalder, looking southwest
General information
LocationScotscalder, Highland
Scotland
Coordinates58°28′58″N 3°33′08″W / 58.4829°N 3.5521°W / 58.4829; -3.5521
Grid referenceND096560
Managed byScotRail
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeSCT[2]
History
Original companySutherland and Caithness Railway
Pre-groupingHighland Railway
Post-groupingLMS
Key dates
28 July 1874[3]Open
Passengers
2018/19Increase 238
2019/20Decrease 232
2020/21Decrease 18
2021/22Increase 116
2022/23Increase 124
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Scotscalder railway station is a railway station located in the Highland council area in the far north of Scotland. It serves several rural hamlets in the historic county of Caithness, including Scotscalder, Olgrinmore, Westerdale and Calder. It is accessed from the B870 road, two miles (3 km) south of Scotscalder Hall.

The station is situated on the Far North Line, 143 mileschains (230.2 km) down the line from Inverness, between Altnabreac and Georgemas Junction.[4] It has a single platform which is long enough to accommodate a four-carriage train.

Owing to its geographical remoteness, limited services and lengthy journey times, Scotscalder's patronage is extremely low: the station has not seen more than 500 passengers in a year since at least the 2002–03 financial year. In 2017–18 the station only saw 182 passengers, making it the 12th least-used railway station in Britain and the least-used on the Far North Line. In 2018–19 the patronage increased to 238, making Scotscalder the second least-used station on the line (behind Kildonan) and the 15th least-used in Britain.

The station is managed by ScotRail, who operate all trains serving the station.

  1. ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ^ Deaves, Phil. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  3. ^ Butt (1995)
  4. ^ 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. 104. ISBN 978-1909431-26-3.