Английская Википедия:Fort William railway station

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Шаблон:Short descriptionШаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox station Fort William railway station serves the town of Fort William, in the Highland region of Scotland. It is on the West Highland line, between Spean Bridge and Banavie, measured Шаблон:Convert from Craigendoran Junction, at the southern end of the line near Helensburgh. The station is managed by ScotRail, who operate most services from the station; Caledonian Sleeper and The Jacobite, an excursion operated by West Coast Railways, also use the station.

History

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The original station in 1957

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The original station alongside the loch

The first station was constructed by the West Highland Railway which was later absorbed by the North British Railway. They chose a site for the station alongside the town shipping pier, which required the purchase of a strip of the foreshore. The railway company bought this for £25 (Шаблон:Inflation)Шаблон:Inflation-fn an acre. Purchase of this land displaced some people from their houses and the railway company was obliged to provide replacement housing. Other residents realised too late that the railway line cut the town off from the shore and the company responded by providing some wicket gate crossings.

It was opened by the Marchioness of Tweedale, Candida Louisa Bartolucci, wife of the chairman of the North British Railway, William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale on 7 August 1894. They had departed by special train comprising two locomotives and eleven carriages from Glasgow at 8.15am, and arrived in Fort William at 1.30pm. It was sited to the west of the present station on what is now the A82 town bypass, alongside Loch Linnhe at Station Square, at the time in close proximity to then location of the former Caledonian MacBrayne bus station. The old station was a stone built construction featuring a turret and a double arched entranceway and had three platforms. Two of the platforms terminated under the platform canopy, but the third continued past the station, crossing the MacBrayne pier and terminated at the jetty just beyond.

In 1970 the British Railways Board put forward proposals to re-site the station Шаблон:Convert north of its location to allow the improvements to the A82 to be implemented. The last train from the old station departed on 7 June 1975 and the station closed on 9 June. It was demolished immediately afterwards to permit construction of the bypass.

The present Fort William station of grey concrete construction was opened on 13 June 1975. The current station lies in the shadow of Ben Nevis.

Accidents and incidents

During high winds in February 1980 a brick wall at the station collapsed onto the track and blocked a platform.

Signalling

Since its opening in 1975, the present Fort William station has been equipped with colour light signals. The signalling is controlled from an 'NX' (entrance-exit) panel in Fort William Junction signal box. The single line between the junction and the station is worked by the Track Circuit Block system, so no tokens are needed for that part of the route.

Facilities

Refurbishment of the facilities at Fort William railway station was completed in 2007 thanks to a £750,000 investment. The refurbishment includes new shower facilities and refurbished toilets. The shower facilities include two showers for ladies, two for gentlemen and one unisex shower facility for disabled people.Шаблон:Citation needed

The island platform is also equipped with a few shops and restaurants, a ticket office, bike racks, a car park and a taxi rank, and some benches. All areas of the station are step-free.

Passenger volume

Passenger Volume at Fort William

	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	2021-22	2022-23
Entries and exits	115,510	120,333	121,920	134,302	135,488	138,870	135,556	145,504	144,106	139,808	138,514	155,856	160,418	139,722	22,316	114,230	145,564
Interchanges	192	211	247	295	365	414	458	440	387	339	355	393	414	377	39	197	204

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

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Caledonian Sleeper and ScotRail services standing at Fort William station

Fort William has three daytime trains per day in each direction on Mondays to Saturdays, running between Шаблон:Stnlnk and Шаблон:Stnlnk. There is also a daily early morning service to Mallaig that starts at Fort William, with a similar return service in the evening, which connects with the Caledonian Sleeper. The regular Sunday service consists of two train per day each way between Glasgow and Mallaig, with the schedule in the peak season supplemented by one service between Fort William and Mallaig.

The Caledonian Sleeper operates six nights per week (not Saturday nights) to and from Шаблон:Stnlnk, starting and terminating at Fort William. The sleeper also carries seated coaches and can thus be used as a regular service train to/from Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley.

The Jacobite operates non-stop between Fort William and Mallaig. This runs all year round, with a maximum of two trains per day Monday to Saturday and one on Sunday. A reduced Jacobite timetable is operated later in the summer. Шаблон:Clear leftШаблон:Rail start Шаблон:Rail line two to two Шаблон:Rail line Шаблон:Heritage rail insert Шаблон:Rail line Шаблон:Historical Rail Insert Шаблон:Rail line two to one Шаблон:Rail line Шаблон:S-end

See also

• West Highland Railway

Bibliography

• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Butt-Stations
• Шаблон:Jowett-Atlas
• Шаблон:Jowett-Nationalised

External links

• Шаблон:Cite web
• Шаблон:Cite web
• Шаблон:Cite web