Signal Box, Garelochhead Station

The station on Station Road in Garelochhead, attributed to architect James Miller, was built between 1893 and 1894. It is a single-storey, rectangular building with a near-symmetrical design and a distinctive swept, bell-cast roof supported by carved consoles that create an awning over the canopies on either side. The building features a painted ashlar plinth with a dressed red sandstone base, and its timber-framed structure is adorned with scalloped shingle walling and panelled angle pilasters. There are glazed screens on the outer right and left, timber panelled doors, and timber framed windows, including bipartite and canted windows with painted fanlights. The roof is tiled, originally covered with grey slate, similar to the roofs of Tyndrum Upper and Glenfinnan.

The east and west elevations consist of 12 bays with a mix of single and bipartite windows, two canted windows, and a four-panelled door topped with a large fanlight. The north and south elevations feature a centrally placed four-panelled door (with glazed upper panels at the southwest end) and a rectangular fanlight, flanked by shingled panels and glazed screens on the outer sides.

Additionally, there is a signal box located on the northeast platform of the station building, constructed in 1894 by the North British Railway Company. This Type 6a signal box has a square plan and is three bays wide, with a painted ashlar plinth and a brick base that includes rounded brick corbels beneath the cills. The upper panels are glazed and timber framed, featuring fixed 9-pane glazing that is currently blocked as of 2012. It has a piended slate roof with lead flashings, projecting eaves, and exposed rafters.

Access to the station is provided by a subway that runs beneath the building, made of concrete and reconstituted stone with a concrete parapet and a curved concrete entrance. An ornate two-leaf cast-iron gate leads to the station, accompanied by plain cast-iron fencing.