Walks from Fort William station
5 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Fort William — the closest is Carn Dearg (NW) at 5.9 km, the highest Ben Nevis at 1,345 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
- Station code
- FTW
- Grid reference
- NN105741
- Coordinates
- 56.82044, -5.10614
- Locality
- Fort William
- Operator
- ScotRail
- Entries & exits
- 176,226 · #1,465 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 5
Passenger figure is the ORR estimate of all entries and exits, April 2024 to March 2025 — a measure of how busy (or wonderfully quiet) the station is, not of train frequency.
About Fort William station
Fort William station serves the town of Fort William in the Highlands, on the West Highland Line between Spean Bridge and Banavie, 99 miles 37 chains from Craigendoran Junction at the southern end of the line near Helensburgh. ScotRail manages the station and operates most services; Caledonian Sleeper and The Jacobite, an excursion operated by West Coast Railways, also use the station.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Fort William railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 5 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Fort William is one of the 3 nearest stations. Follow a name for the full record — heights, prominence, access rights, live summit weather and daylight.
| # | Hill | Height | Classifications | From station | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carn Dearg (NW) | 1221 m | Munro TopMurdoSimm | 5.9 km | E |
| 2 | Carn Dearg (SW) | 1020 m | Munro TopMurdoSimm | 6.5 km | SE |
| 3 | Ben Nevis | 1344.5 m | MunroHistoric County TopCurrent County/UA Top+5 | 6.8 km | SE |
| 4 | Carn Dearg Meadhonach | 1179 m | Munro Top | 7.2 km | E |
| 5 | Carn Mor Dearg | 1220 m | MunroMurdoMarilyn+2 | 7.5 km | E |
A hill 8 km away in a straight line can be a much longer day on the ground — and on rural lines the last train home leaves early and some stations are request stops with a handful of services a day. Check live times and facilities for Fort William before you commit, plan the route on a proper map, and give the daylight planner your real finish time.
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Station position from NaPTAN (Department for Transport, OGL v3.0); passenger estimates from the Office of Rail and Road (OGL v3.0). Distances and bearings computed by OpenFell, summit to platform.
Long-distance paths from this station
4 waymarked long-distance routes pass within 2 km of the station — a made line to follow out of the door, or a way to link this station to the next one down the line.
| Route | Total length | From station |
|---|---|---|
| East Highland Way | 125 km | passes the station |
| Great Glen Way | 124 km | passes the station |
| Cape Wrath Trail (Fort William → Invergarry → Morvich) | 107 km | passes the station |
| West Highland Way | 153 km | passes the station |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the station computed by OpenFell.
Daylight here today
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for the station. Walking to a timetable means walking to the light: set your turnaround with the daylight safety planner.
Plan the day
- Walking-time calculator — Naismith with terrain and fitness corrections.
- Access checker — what the land around here allows.
- Kit-list generator — packed for the forecast, not for habit.
- Fort William on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps