Upper Tyndrum railway station

Upper Tyndrum

Scottish Gaelic: Taigh an Droma Uachdrach[1]
National Rail
Upper Tyndrum station, looking north towards Fort William and Mallaig
General information
LocationTyndrum, Stirling
Scotland
Coordinates56°26′04″N 4°42′13″W / 56.4345°N 4.7036°W / 56.4345; -4.7036
Grid referenceNN333302
Managed byScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeUTY[2]
History
Original companyWest Highland Railway
Pre-groupingNorth British Railway
Post-groupingLNER
Key dates
7 August 1894Station opened as Tyndrum[3]
21 September 1956Station renamed as Tyndrum Upper[3]
1988Station renamed as Upper Tyndrum[3]
Passengers
2018/19Increase 5,702
2019/20Decrease 4,736
2020/21Decrease 772
 Interchange 64
2021/22Increase 3,180
 Interchange Increase185
2022/23Increase 4,076
 Interchange Decrease123
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Upper Tyndrum railway station is one of two railway stations serving the small village of Tyndrum in Scotland. It is on the Fort William route of the scenic West Highland Line, between Crianlarich and Bridge of Orchy, sited 41 miles 25 chains (66.5 km) from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh.[4] Services are operated by ScotRail - who manage the station - and Caledonian Sleeper.

  1. ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ^ Deaves, Phil. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Butt (1995), page 236
  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. 88. ISBN 978-1909431-26-3.