The West Highland Line
The West Highland Line links 31 stations, with a top line speed of 70 mph.
See the West Highland Line on the live map
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The line in numbers
| Track | about 184 miles, counting every running line |
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| Stations | 31 |
| Top line speed | 70 mph |
| Passengers a year | 890,552 entries and exits across its stations |
| Engineer's Line Reference | WHL, OBN2, MLG2, MLG1 |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Craigendoran163,838 a year
- Helensburgh Upper12,520 a year
- Garelochhead17,740 a year
- Arrochar and Tarbet20,438 a year
- Ardlui4,050 a year
- Crianlarich16,156 a year
- Dalmally13,690 a year
- Tyndrum Lower5,986 a year
- Upper Tyndrum5,760 a year
- Loch Awe6,166 a year
- Falls of Cruachan1,782 a year
- Bridge of Orchy7,958 a year
- Taynuilt38,888 a year
- Connel Ferry18,594 a year
- Oban201,750 a year
- Rannoch7,802 a year
- Corrour20,500 a year
- Fort William176,226 a year
- Banavie6,796 a year
- Corpach3,776 a year
- Tulloch2,252 a year
- Roy Bridge3,332 a year
- Loch Eil Outward Bound5,294 a year
- Spean Bridge7,516 a year
- Locheilside462 a year
- Glenfinnan18,274 a year
- Lochailort2,438 a year
- Beasdale230 a year
- Arisaig5,572 a year
- Morar4,290 a year
- Mallaig90,476 a year
The busiest station on the line is Oban, 201,750 entries and exits a year and 1394th busiest in Britain.
Freight on this line, hour by hour
Freight is booked over the West Highland Line on 31 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 7 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 3 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 08:00 to 09:00 on the Wednesday, with 5 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
Lines it meets
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.
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