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The first railway station in Forres was located at the end of Market Street. On the OS map for 1863, this road is named appropriately "Old Station Road". The station building was located between the current track and signal box , and the former goods loop (which was the original main line, before the junction was constructed).
English: Forres railway station, Moray Opened in 2017 by Network Rail on the line from Inverness to Aberdeen, this station replaced an earlier one which closed at the same time. View north east towards Kinloss and Aberdeen. The first Forres station (1858-1863, see NJ0359 : Forres 1st railway station (site), Moray, 2017) was located beyond the ...
Forres railway station is situated just outside the town and is operated by ScotRail. The town of Forres was once a triangular junction in the Highland Railway network, travelling through Forres was once the quickest route to reach Inverness from the south. Originally the station had four platforms; two of which were on the north side of the ...
Great North of Scotland Railway between Keith and Aberdeen which opened on 19 September 1854, with the southern portion (between Port Elphinstone and Aberdeen Waterloo) being built over the route of the Aberdeenshire Canal. A Highland Railway 'Clan Goods' locomotive at Forres. The first two parts of the line merged to form the Highland Railway ...
The Inverness and Nairn Railway had always been seen as a first step towards that. [15] Now on 22 July 1861 an act of Parliament, the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. viii), was passed for the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway. The starting point for its southward path would be Forres, not Nairn, in order ...
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The Dava Way is a 38 km (24 mi) long-distance path that mostly follows the route of the former Highland Railway between Grantown and Forres. The railway line, built as a route between Inverness and Perth, opened in 1863 and closed in 1965. The route was reopened as a long distance path in 2005.
The first proposals for rail links to Inverness were made in 1845. These were the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) between Inverness and Aberdeen and so link up with the railways to the south; the Perth & Inverness Railway, proposing a direct route over the Grampian Mountains to Perth; and the Aberdeen, Banff & Elgin Railway, with a route that followed the coast to better serve the ...