Plockton railway station
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.Photo: Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Plockton, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “PLK”, “Plockton”, “Plockton Railway Station”, and “Plockton Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton and Duncraig railway station.
Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton
Church
Photo: Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton is situated 2,900 feet northeast of Plockton railway station.
Duncraig railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sexy Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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. Duncraig railway station is situated 1 mile east of Plockton railway station.
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.
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.
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.
Plockton railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.33359° or 57° 20′ 1″ northLongitude
-5.66589° or 5° 39′ 57″ westElevation
89 feet (27 metres)Operator
ScotRailNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“PLK”Open location code
9C9P88MM+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 26493469OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Plockton railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Plockton”
- Dutch: “Station Plockton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة پلوكتون”
- Finnish: “Plocktonin rautatieasema”
- French: “gare de Plockton”
- French: “Plockton”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Am Ploc”
- Scottish Gaelic: “PLK”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ploc Loch Aillse”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Stèisean a‘ Phluic”
- Urdu: “پلوکٹن ریلوے اسٹیشن”
- Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd Plockton”
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