Achnashellach railway station
Achnashellach railway station is a railway station serving Achnashellach on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, in Wester Ross, Scotland. The station lies between Strathcarron station and the Glen Carron platform. The line was opened on 5 August 1870. The station is from , and has a single platform which is long enough for a three-coach train. History. The station was opened by the Dingwall and Skye Railway, but operated from the outset by the Highland Railway (HR). Taken into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, the line then passed on to the  Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced by British Rail, the station became part of ScotRail until the Privatisation of British Railways. On 14 October 1892, Achnashellach was the scene of a runaway train in which the brake in the brake van had malfunctioned. Subsequently, this train moved off down the slope at considerable speed without a locomotive to keep it under control. Reaching the bottom of the slope, it had enough energy to proceed back uphill, before running down the slope once again. Unfortunately, another train was approaching Achnashellach in the opposite direction  at that very moment, and the two trains collided at the bottom of the slope with great force. Eight passengers were injured, though none seriously, and the track was not damaged with only minor damage occurring to the rolling stock. The cause of the accident was thought to be a result of the HR's lack of using a continuous brake, and a habit of putting goods wagons at the front of mixed passenger and goods trains. Service. Four trains each way call (on request) on weekdays and Saturdays and one each way all year on Sundays, plus a second  from May to late September only.