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

Notes

  1. ^ The line was originally proposed by the Inverness and Ross-shire Railway but in 1862 the company was absorbed by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway who then gained authority in 1863 to build this section of line.[1]

References

  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.

Bibliography

  • Croughton, Godfrey; Kidner, R. W.; Young, Alan (1982). Private and untimetabled railway stations : halts and stopping places. Salisbury, Wilts.: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0853612811. OCLC 1311037585.
  • Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
  • Quick, Michael (2023) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.05. Railway & Canal Historical Society.
  • The Railway Clearing House (1938). Official Hand-book of Railway Stations 1938. London: The Railway Clearing House.
  • Vallance, H.A.; Clinker, C.R. (1971) [1938]. The Highland Railway. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-02720-4.


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