Off the Rails
Independent
- Jane MacKenzie
- 32 Harbour Street
- Plockton
- Ross-shire IV52 8TN
+44 (0)1599 544 306- email: info@plocktonstation.co.uk
- web: www.plocktonstation.co.uk
Stay with us and get a free trip on Calum's Seal Trips
As a working, but unstaffed, station, Off the Rails provides a unique holiday experience — all the discerning holiday maker could be looking for.
Built around 1880 on the famous Inverness to Kyle line, it has been tastefully refurbished preserving Victorian features and architecture but rewired with all the technology the discerning traveller expects.
Well equipped and comfortable accommodation has been designed with your comfort in mind and will appeal to couples, friends, families and train enthusiasts alike.
You can even relax after a hard day in the hills in your own sauna!
On ground level, the accommodation is suitable for wheel chair access.
- location:
- Station
bed & breakfast at MacKenzie's is also available
- the station . . .
- accommodation is the whole of the old Plockton station, as before outside, refurbished inside
- seating outside on the platform
- full electric central heating
- both bedrooms are ground floor
- open plan kitchen/dining room
- open hearth fire in lounge with coal and logs provided
- ironing & drying facilities
- cot & high chair
- hair dryer
- TV/DVD combo and TVs in each bedroom
- satellite (FreeSat) digital box for the main TV
- music system
- a collection of books, CDs and DVDs
- honesty phone
- wireless broadband internet
- mobile reception outside the station
- off road parking
- please note . . .
- electricity included in the price
- towels & linen provided, including toweling bath robes
- starter pack of groceries provided
- we operate a non-smoking policy
| open: All Year from Easter 2010 |
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| converted station building, sleep 4 to 6 |
| £450–950 pw |
| we run Calum's Seal Trips |
- bedrooms . . .
- double (king-size bed), spacious en-suite wet room and sauna
- double/twin (2 single beds zip together)
- living room sofa converts to a double bed
- bathrooms . . .
- as above and a separate shower-room
- kitchen . . .
- electric cooker
- microwave oven
- fridge
- freezer
- dish washer
- washing machine
- tumble dryer
- fully equipped with kettle, pots and pans, utensils, etc
- booking . . .
- normal booking period — Saturday to Saturday
- earliest arrival time — 15:30
- latest departure time — 10:00
- shorts stays by arrangement
- £150 deposit on booking, balance payable six weeks before arrival
- trains . . .
- the Royal Scotsman stops at the station most weeks in the season.
- steam trains should be going through the station this summer — first confirmed for 12 April, hauled by The Great Marquis, former LNER K4 2-6-0 61994 (Railway Touring Company)
- Inverness—Kyle line info & timetable
