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Elgin railway station is a railway station serving the town of Elgin, Moray in Scotland. The station is managed and served by ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line , between Keith and Forres , measured 12 miles 18 chains (19.7 km) from Forres.
There is a basic two-hourly frequency in each directions (with peak extras), to Inverness via Elgin northbound and Aberdeen southbound (12 trains southbound, 11 northbound). The first departure to Aberdeen each weekday and Saturday continues south to Edinburgh Waverley, and another continues to Stonehaven in the evening. On Sundays there are ...
Prior to the Dava route opening, all services to the south began at Aberdeen (on the north-east coast). Problems arose when connecting at Aberdeen from Inverness trains. Aberdeen was the terminus for two railway companies, and therefore had two separate stations: one served the east and the other was the starting point for services to the south (via the co
Services ran to a terminus in Aberdeen at Waterloo from 1856 [5] before Aberdeen joint station opened in 1867. [6] The line was extended at the country end to Dufftown in 1862. [7] Meanwhile, the Morayshire Railway had built a line from Rothes to Craigellachie, [8] and subsequently linked this line to its Elgin station in 1862. [9]
The Aberdeen–Inverness line is a railway line in Scotland linking Aberdeen and Inverness.It is not electrified. Most of the line is single-track, other than passing places and longer double-track sections between Insch and Kennethmont and Inverurie and Berryden Junction (Aberdeen).
This line is a rarely-used piece of track which avoids the station, linking the Far North and Kyle of Lochalsh lines to the Highland Main Line and the line to Aberdeen. [15] In recent years it has fallen in to disuse, but up to 2019 it was used weekly on Saturdays by a train from Kyle of Lochalsh to Elgin. [16]
The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line, between Huntly and Elgin, measured 53 miles 8 chains (85.5 km) from Aberdeen, or 30 miles 20 chains (48.7 km) from Forres. [3]
The GNoSR station opened as 'Cullen' on 1 May 1886 [3] with the central section of the coast line, served by through Aberdeen to Elgin trains. [4] In 1923 the Great North of Scotland Railway was absorbed by the London and North Eastern Railway. This was nationalised in 1948, and services provided by British Railways.