Duncraig railway station
Duncraig railway station is a remote railway station by the shore of Loch Carron on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, originally serving Duncraig Castle, a mansion near Plockton, in the Highland council area of northern Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sexy Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Sexy Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Duncraig, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “DCG”, “Duncraig Halt And Shelter”, and “Duncraig Railway Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Duncraig Castle and Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton.
Duncraig Castle
Castle
Photo: Richard Szwejkowski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Duncraig Castle is a mansion in Lochalsh, in the west of the Scottish Highlands. A category-C listed building, it is situated in the Highland council area, east of the village of Plockton on the south shore of Loch Carron.
Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton
Church
Photo: Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton is situated 3,000 feet west of Duncraig railway station.
Plockton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plockton railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Plockton in the Highlands, north-west Scotland. The station is 58 miles 22 chains from Dingwall, between Duncraig and Duirinish. Plockton railway station is situated 1 mile west of Duncraig railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plockton and Duirinish.
Plockton
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plockton is a village on the west coast of Ross and Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 468 in 2020. In Scots slang a "plook" is a pimple, and The Plock is a small headland sheltering the harbour from the westerly weather.
Duirinish
Hamlet
Photo: Bert Kaufmann, CC BY 2.0.
Duirinish is a hamlet in Lochalsh near Plockton in Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The hamlet is largely formed around the Allt Dhiuirnis river, which flows westward into the Inner Sound. Duirinish is situated 2 miles southwest of Duncraig railway station.
Barleyport
Hamlet
Photo: Chris MacKenzie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Port an Eòrna is the Scottish Gaelic name for the small settlement of Barleyport, situated almost midway between Plockton and the Kyle of Lochalsh, in Ross-shire, Scotland, in the Western Highlands. Barleyport is situated 2½ miles west of Duncraig railway station.
Duncraig railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.33694° or 57° 20′ 13″ northLongitude
-5.63711° or 5° 38′ 14″ westElevation
36 feet (11 metres)Operator
ScotRailNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“DCG”Open location code
9C9P89P7+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
node 7188030514OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Scottish Gaelic—“Duncraig railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Duncraig”
- Dutch: “Station Duncraig”
- Finnish: “Duncraigin rautatieasema”
- French: “Duncraig”
- French: “gare de Duncraig”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Stèisean Dhùn na Creige”
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