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Latitude: 57.337 / 57°20'13"N
Longitude: -5.637 / 5°38'13"W
OS Eastings: 181214
OS Northings: 833237
OS Grid: NG812332
Mapcode National: GBR D9GB.8RT
Mapcode Global: WH09V.CVY8
Plus Code: 9C9P89P7+Q6
Entry Name: Duncraig Halt And Shelter
Listing Name: Duncraig Halt
Listing Date: 7 April 1997
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390874
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44180
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390874
Location: Lochalsh
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh
Parish: Lochalsh
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: Railway station
Opened 1897 by the Highland Railway. Short single mass-concrete-faced platform with wooden fence. Small hexagonal vertically-boarded shelter off-platform, with pyramidal slated roof and 2-layer ornamental valancing. Inappropriate uPVC guttering. Cast and wrought-iron bracket for oil lamp. Segmental-arched rubble over-bridge at east end of station with rock-faced voussoirs and ashlar cope and string course at carriageway level.
Built to serve Duncraig Castle, seat of Sir Alexander Matheson, of the Hong Kong mercantile family. The castle was bequeathed to Ross and Cromarty County Council, and converted to a catering college after the Second World War. The castle was disused in February 1997. The halt is on the railway from Stromeferry to Kyle of Lochalsh, builtbetween 1893 and 1897.
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