Culrain railway station serves the village of Culrain in Kyle of Sutherland in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is located on the Far North Line.

Carbisdale Castle

Castle

Photo: Malc McDonald, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Carbisdale Castle was built in 1907 for the Duchess of Sutherland on a hill across the Kyle of Sutherland from Invershin in the Scottish Highlands. From 1945 to 2011 it was used as a youth hostel, operated by the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.

Invershin railway station

Railway station

Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Invershin railway station is a railway station in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line, 61 miles 34 chains from Inverness, between Culrain and Lairg. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Invershin and Inveran.

Invershin

Village

Photo: Andrew Longton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Invershin is a scattered village in the Parish of Creich, 6 miles south of Lairg and 4 miles north of Bonar Bridge in the south of Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

Inveran

Hamlet

Inveran is a small village in the Parish of Creich located in the Sutherland region of the Highland Council area of Scotland. It is situated on the A837 at the head of the Dornoch Firth and the site of the Shin Hydro-electric Power Station. Inveran is situated 1½ miles north of Culrain.

Bonar Bridge

Village

Photo: Donald Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bonar Bridge is a village on the north bank of the Kyle of Sutherland to the west and the Dornoch Firth to the east in the Parish of Creich in the Highland council area of Scotland. Bonar Bridge is situated 3 miles southeast of Culrain.

Culrain

Type: Village with 90 residents
Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
Categories: human settlement and locality
Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.91912° or 57° 55′ 9″ north

Longitude

-4.40781° or 4° 24′ 28″ west

Population

Elevation

59 feet (18 metres)

Open location code

9C9QWH9R+JV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8986655357

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

2651729

Wikidata ID

Q2587653

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Culrain” goes by many names.

Basque: “Culrain”
Dutch: “Culrain”
Irish: “Cùil Rathain”
Irish: “Cul Raoin”
Scottish Gaelic: “Cùil Rathain”
Swedish: “Culrain”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Culrain”. Photo: Donald Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.