Aviemore railway station

Aviemore
Scottish Gaelic: An Aghaidh Mhor
Under the canopy on platform one
Location
Place	Aviemore
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates	57.1886°N 3.8286°W / 57.1886; -3.8286
Operations
Station code	AVM
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	3
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	0.070 million
2004/05 *	0.081 million
2005/06 *	0.091 million
2006/07 *	0.101 million
2007/08 *	0.115 million
2008/09 *	0.121 million
2009/10 *	0.125 million
History
Original company	Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
3 August 1863	Station opened
1898	Station rebuilt and expanded
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Aviemore from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Aviemore railway station serves the town and tourist resort of Aviemore in the Highlands of Scotland. The station, which is owned by Network Rail (NR) and managed by First ScotRail, is located on the Highland Main Line between Perth and Inverness, and is also the southern terminus of the Strathspey Steam Railway.

History

Strathspey railway services have operated from this station since 1998

The line was opened by the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway (I&PJR) in 1863, subsequently becoming part of the Highland Railway.

The current station was opened in 1898, when the "direct" line to Inverness via Slochd was built, making Aviemore an important junction and replacing the original 1863 building.

It became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway after the Grouping of 1923, then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The original I&PJR line to Forres fell victim to the Beeching Axe, closing to passengers in October 1965.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the Privatisation of British Railways.

In 1998 the station was restored and refurbished, and the Strathspey Railway was finally allowed to use the island platform. All three buildings on the island platform were restored and brought back into use, having been derelict for many years, and a fourth was built from scratch. It is a tribute to the quality of the restoration that it is difficult to tell the 1998 building from those dating from 1898. The new building comprises a ticket hall, booking office and shop, and the three original buildings are waiting rooms (with historical displays), staff offices, and toilets. Parking, reached from the Rothiemurchus road in the south of the village, is on the east side of the station, and passenger access to the Strathspey part of the station is via a foot-crossing of the rarely used junction spur. This is the second biggest railway station in Highland (Council area), after Inverness.^{[citation needed]}

Following the moving of services, the Strathspey Railway subsequently closed their Aviemore (Speyside) railway station.

Description

Road access to the NR station building is from Grampian Road, to the west of the line. A canopied island platform, connected to the station building by a footbridge, lies beyond the two main-line tracks, and the further (eastern) platform face of this island is used by Strathspey trains. The junction between the Strathspey Railway and Network Rail lies to the south of the station.

Services

Services are provided by First ScotRail and East Coast on the Highland Main Line and Strathspey Railway on the former Inverness and Perth Junction Railway to Boat of Garten and Broomhill .

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Kingussie		East Coast East Coast Main Line		Carrbridge
Kingussie		First ScotRail Highland Main Line		Carrbridge
Kingussie		First ScotRail Highland Caledonian Sleeper		Inverness
	Heritage railways
Terminus		Strathspey Railway		Boat of Garten
	Historical railways
Kincraig Line open; station closed		Highland Railway Inverness and Perth Junction Railway		Boat of Garten Line and station open
connection to Inverness and Perth Junction Railway		Highland Railway Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway		Carrbridge Line and Station open

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Station on navigable O.S. map
• RAILSCOT on Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway
• RAILSCOT on Inverness and Perth Junction Railway