Roy Bridge railway station

Roy Bridge

Scottish Gaelic: Drochaid Ruaidh[1]
National Rail
General information
LocationRoybridge, Highland
Scotland
Coordinates56°53′18″N 4°50′15″W / 56.8884°N 4.8376°W / 56.8884; -4.8376
Grid referenceNN272810
Managed byScotRail
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeRYB[2]
Key dates
7 August 1894Opened
Passengers
2019/20Decrease 3,268
2020/21Decrease 560
2021/22Increase 2,696
2022/23Decrease 2,520
2023/24Increase 3,408
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Roy Bridge railway station is a railway station serving the village of Roybridge in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Tulloch and Spean Bridge, sited 87 miles 35 chains (140.7 km) from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh.[3] ScotRail manage the station and operate most services, along with Caledonian Sleeper.

History

This station opened by the West Highland Railway on 7 August 1894.[4] The station was originally a two platform station, with sidings to the north.[5] The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1935 to 1939.[6] A camping coach was also positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1952 to 1960.[7]

Facilities

The station seen from the footbridge

The station is equipped with a waiting room, a bench, a help point and some bike racks. The station is only accessible from a stepped overbridge and thus has no step-free access.[8] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.

Passenger volume

Passenger Volume at Roy Bridge[9]
2002-03 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21
Entries and exits 3,636 3,344 3,370 3,812 4,301 3,936 4,112 3,878 4,084 4,270 3,856 4,520 4,172 3,556 3,712 3,742 3,268 560

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

Mondays to Saturdays, the station is served by three Scotrail trains per day in each direction, northbound to Mallaig and southbound to Glasgow Queen Street, along with the Highland Caledonian Sleeper between London Euston and Fort William via Edinburgh Waverley (the latter doesn't run southbound on Saturday nights or northbound on Sunday mornings, and only calls at the station on request). Sundays see just two trains per day call, as well as the southbound sleeper. The sleeper also carries seated coaches and can thus be used by regular passengers from/to Glasgow (Queen St Low Level) and Edinburgh.[10][11][12]

Preceding station   National Rail National Rail   Following station
Spean Bridge   ScotRail
West Highland Line 		  Tulloch
  Caledonian Sleeper
Highland Caledonian Sleeper 		 

References

  1. ^ Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
  2. ^ Deaves, Phil. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 391. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
  5. ^ "Roy Bridge station on OS 25inch map Inverness-shire - Mainland Sheet CXLI (includes: Kilmonivaig)". National Library of Scotland. 1903. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  6. ^ McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 11. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
  7. ^ McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 28. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
  8. ^ "National Rail Enquiries -". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  9. ^ "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  10. ^ eNRT May 2022 Edition, Table 218
  11. ^ eNRT December 2021 Edition, Table 218
  12. ^ eNRT May 2022 Edition, Table 220
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