West Highland Line

North of Craigendoran the line abandons the Clyde commuter belt and sets off alone across country no road dares follow. It rounds the Horseshoe Curve beneath Beinn Dòrain, floats over blanket bog on a mattress of brushwood and ash, and calls at Corrour, a platform miles from the nearest public road. Beyond Fort William comes the 1901 Mallaig Extension: concrete viaducts, white-sand beaches and the Small Isles on the horizon before the fishing boats of Mallaig.

Stations

1. 0 kmGlasgow Queen Street (High Level) +3
2. 16 kmDalmuir +2
3. 26 kmDumbarton Central +2
4. 40 kmHelensburgh Upper +2
5. 51 kmGarelochhead +2
6. 68 kmArrochar and Tarbet +2
7. Show 15 more stations

   1. 81 kmArdlui +2
   2. 95 kmCrianlarich +2
   3. 103 kmUpper Tyndrum +1
   4. 115 kmBridge of Orchy +1
   5. 140 kmRannoch
   6. 151 kmCorrour +1
   7. 167 kmTulloch +1
   8. 176 kmRoy Bridge +1
   9. 181 kmSpean Bridge +1
   10. 194 kmFort William +2
   11. 197 kmBanavie +1
   12. 198 kmCorpach +1
   13. 203 kmLoch Eil Outward Bound +1
   14. 209 kmLocheilside +1
   15. 220 kmGlenfinnan +1
8. 234 kmLochailort +1
9. 242 kmBeasdale +1
10. 247 kmArisaig +1
11. 254 kmMorar +1
12. 259 kmMallaig +1

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

Along the way

• Loch Long and Loch Lomond shores
• Horseshoe Curve below Beinn Dòrain
• Corrour, Britain’s highest station
• Ben Nevis above Fort William
• Glenfinnan Viaduct over Loch Shiel
• silver sands of Morar

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3224918: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 42 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 15 m from it
• The operator publishes this line's timetable: ScotRail timetables, a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

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