Corrour Station Highland
Corrour is the most remote railway station in Britain, a halt on the West Highland Line to Fort William on the bleak and beautiful moorland of Rannoch Moor at 411 metres above sea level, accessible only by train as there is no public road within several kilometres of the station. The combination of the extraordinary remoteness, the bleakness and the beauty of the surrounding Rannoch Moor landscape and the memorable experience of arriving or departing by the single railway line that crosses this uninhabited expanse creates one of the most distinctive and most memorable railway destinations in Britain.
The station became widely known following its appearance in Danny Boyle's 1996 film Trainspotting, in which the characters travel to Corrour to walk on Rannoch Moor in a sequence that captures the appeal of this remote place with unusual accuracy. The station tearoom, the only facility within walking distance, provides warmth and refreshment that takes on an outsize significance in this context of extreme remoteness.
The walking available from Corrour on Rannoch Moor and to the surrounding mountains is exceptional, the complete absence of roads creating a landscape of genuine wilderness quality unusual in the Scottish Highlands where most mountain walking involves road approaches. The circuit of Loch Ossian from the station is one of the finest accessible wilderness walks in Scotland, and the more demanding routes to the Munros of the surrounding hills provide serious mountain walking of the highest quality.