Mid Fearn Halt railway station

Mid Fearn Halt was a small railway station in Mid Fearn in Ross-shire in Scotland. The station was provided to serve Fearn Lodge.

Mid Fearn Halt
General information
Location	Highland Scotland
Coordinates	57.85824°N 4.30968°W / 57.85824; -4.30968
Grid reference	NH 63058775
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMSR
Key dates
1 October 1864 (1864-10-01)	Opened
1 April 1865 (1865-04-01)	Closed

The station opened on 1 October 1864 when the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway opened its line from Invergordon to Ardgay (then known as Bonar Bridge).^[a][1][2]

The station was short lived, closing on 1 April 1865.^[2]

Despite its formal closure and withdrawal from the public timetables the halt was still used as a conditional stopping-place for the lodge and the wives and families of local railwaymen.^[2][3]

The station was described as Mid Fearn Halt in the Railway Clearing House handbook of 1938^[4] but had also been known as Mid Fearn Station^[3] and West Fearn Platform .^[5]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Edderton Line open, station closed		Highland Railway Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway		Ardgay Line and station open

Notes

1. The line was originally proposed by the Inverness and Ross-shire Railway but in 1862 the company was absorbed by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway who then gained authority in 1863 to build this section of line.^[1]

References

1. Grant 2017, pp. 278–280.
2. Quick 2023, p. 314.
3. Vallance & Clinker 1971, p. 28.
4. The Railway Clearing House 1938, p. 402.
5. Croughton, Kidner & Young 1982, p. 140.

Bibliography

• Croughton, Godfrey; Kidner, R. W.; Young, Alan (1982). Private and untimetabled railway stations : halts and stopping places. Salisbury, Wilts.: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0853612811. OCLC 1311037585.
• Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
• Quick, Michael (2023) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.05. Railway & Canal Historical Society.
• The Railway Clearing House (1938). Official Hand-book of Railway Stations 1938. London: The Railway Clearing House.
• Vallance, H.A.; Clinker, C.R. (1971) [1938]. The Highland Railway. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-02720-4.