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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 ScotRail, is on the Highland Main Line, 83 miles 31 chains (134.2 kilometres) from Perth, between Kingussie and Carrbridge, and is also the southern terminus of the Strathspey preserved railway.[4]

Aviemore

Scottish Gaelic: An Aghaidh Mhòr[1]
Aviemore railway station in 2018
General information
LocationAviemore, Highland
Scotland
Coordinates57.1886°N 3.8288°W / 57.1886; -3.8288
Grid referenceNH895123
Owned byNetwork Rail
Managed byScotRail
Platforms3 (2 Network Rail) (1 Strathspey Railway)
Other information
Station codeAVM[2]
History
Original companyInverness & Perth Junction Railway
Pre-groupingHighland Railway
Post-groupingLMS
Key dates
3 August 1863Station opened
1898Station rebuilt and expanded
Passengers
2016/17 0.145 million
 Interchange  50
2017/18 0.148 million
 Interchange  44
2018/19 0.138 million
 Interchange  52
2019/20 0.133 million
 Interchange  177
2020/21 25,492
 Interchange  8
Listed Building – Category A
Designated18 August 1986
Reference no.LB257[3]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History


Strathspey railway services have operated from this station since 1998.
Strathspey railway services have operated from this station since 1998.

The line was opened by the Inverness & Perth Junction Railway (I&PJR) in 1863,[5] subsequently becoming part of the Highland Railway.

The current station was opened in 1898,[citation needed] to designs by the architect William Roberts[6] when the "direct" line to Inverness via Slochd was built, making Aviemore an important junction and replacing the original 1863 building. William Roberts also provided an engine shed to the north of the station in 1896.

It became part of the London, Midland & 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 cuts, closing to passengers in October 1965.

When Sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by Scotrail until the privatisation of British Rail.

In 1998 the station was restored and refurbished, and the Strathspey Railway was finally allowed to use the island platform.[7] Following the moving of services, the Strathspey Railway closed their Aviemore (Speyside) railway station. The platform remains, as fears over asbestos contamination have stalled its removal. The original footbridge also still stands but is unsafe.


Facilities


The new building on the northbound platform of the main line comprises a ticket hall, booking office and shop, and the three original buildings are waiting rooms (with historical displays), staff offices, and toilets. Parking is on the station's west side, and passenger access to the Strathspey part of the station is via a foot-crossing across the junction spur. This foot crossing also provides disabled access to platform 2.[8] As there are no ticket machines, if the ticket office is closed, passengers must buy one in advance.


Platform layout


The station has a passing loop 40 chains (800 m) long, flanked by two platforms. Platform 1 on the down (northbound) line can accommodate trains having fourteen coaches, whereas platform 2 on the up (southbound) line can hold fifteen.[9] The junction between the Strathspey Railway and Network Rail lies to the south of the station and was controlled from the station signal box, which also controlled a large portion of the main line either side of here (from Kingussie all the way to Culloden Moor since 1979) as well as the immediate station area.[10] The station was resignalled and the loop extended in 2019, which also saw the signal box closed with control transferring to Inverness.[11]


Passenger volume


Passenger Volume at Aviemore[12]
  2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21
Entries and exits 101,294 115,431 121,090 124,972 132,336 132,052 136,456 141,311 150,724 152,082 145,200 147,964 138,490 132,618 25,492
Interchanges 45 113 86 72 72 14 59 82 37 56 50 44 52 177 8

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.


Services


Services are provided by ScotRail, Caledonian Sleeper, and London North Eastern Railway on the Highland Main Line, and Strathspey Railway on the former Inverness & Perth Junction Railway to Boat of Garten and Broomhill.

In the May 2022 timetable, there are five trains each weekday to Edinburgh Waverley (including the Highland Chieftain to London King's Cross) and seven to Glasgow Queen Street southbound, plus the overnight sleeper to London Euston (the latter does not run southbound on Saturday nights or northbound on Sundays). Northbound there are eleven departures to Inverness.

On Sundays there are five trains to Edinburgh (including the King's Cross service) and two to Glasgow, along with seven to Inverness, two of which extend to Elgin.[13]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Kingussie   ScotRail
Highland Main Line
  Carrbridge or
Inverness
Kingussie   London North Eastern Railway
East Coast Main Line
  Carrbridge or
Inverness
Kingussie   Caledonian Sleeper
Highland Caledonian Sleeper
  Carrbridge or
Inverness
  Heritage railways
Terminus   Strathspey Railway   Boat of Garten
  Historical railways  
Kincraig
Line open; station closed
  Highland Railway
Inverness & Perth Junction Railway
  Boat of Garten
Line and station open
  Highland Railway
Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway
  Carrbridge
Line and station open

Future proposals


In the future,[when?] this station will be one of those to benefit from a package of timetable enhancements introduced by Transport Scotland and Scotrail. The current Perth to Inverness timetable will increase to hourly each way, with trains south of there running on alternate hours to Edinburgh and Glasgow. Journey times will be reduced by 10 minutes to both cities.[14] As of May 2022, this has still not taken place.[13]


References


  1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. Deaves, Phil. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  3. "AVIEMORE RAILWAY STATION WITH ISLAND PLATFORM, FOOTBRIDGE AND FENCING". Historic Scotland. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  4. Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. p. 94. ISBN 978-1909431-26-3.
  5. Butt (1995), page 21
  6. The Buildings of Scotland, Highland and Islands. John Gifford. Yale University Press. 1992. ISBN 0-300-09625-9
  7. "Aviemore station reopens after £2.2m restoration". RAIL, No. 333. EMAP Apex Publications. 17–30 June 1998. p. 10.
  8. "National Rail Enquiries -". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  9. Brailsford 2017, map 19D.
  10. Jessop, R. "Scottish Signal Boxes". "Ronrail". Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  11. Scotrail. "Highland Mainline Journey Time Improvements Phase 2" (PDF). p. 5.
  12. "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  13. eNRT May 2022 Edition, Table 213
  14. "Transport Scotland". Archived from the original on 20 August 2016.

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