Nairn railway station

Nairn National Rail
Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Narann
Location
Place Nairn
Local authority Highland
Coordinates 57°34′49″N 3°52′18″W / 57.5803°N 3.8716°W / 57.5803; -3.8716Coordinates: 57°34′49″N 3°52′18″W / 57.5803°N 3.8716°W / 57.5803; -3.8716
Grid reference NH881560
Operations
Station code NRN
Managed by Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03  71,742
2004/05 Increase 80,626
2005/06 Increase 85,488
2006/07 Decrease 75,353
2007/08 Decrease 70,454
2008/09 Increase 75,490
2009/10 Increase 83,980
2010/11 Increase 0.101 million
2011/12 Increase 0.112 million
2012/13 Increase 0.112 million
2013/14 Increase 0.117 million
2014/15 Increase 0.127 million
History
5 November 1855 Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Nairn from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Nairn railway station is a railway station serving the town of Nairn in Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line. The station appeared as 'Inverness' in the 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

History

The station was first opened in 1855 by the Inverness and Nairn Railway. In 1857, the line was extended eastwards to Dalvey. The route from Aberdeen to Inverness was merged into one company, the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway, in 1861. Many of the local stations either side of here succumbed to the Beeching Axe between 1965 & 1968, though Nairn was one of those that survived the cutbacks.

The station was notable for being the last working example of Highland Railway signalling principles, where a signal box was provided at each end to work the signals & points whilst the key token instruments for working the single line were located in the main building. The distance between the boxes was such that a bicycle was officially provided by BR (and later Railtrack) for the signaller to use.[1] The practice came to an end in April 2000, when the station was resignalled with colour lights and control shifted to a panel in the station building - as a result, most passenger services use the northern (former eastbound) platform in both directions (the southern one is now only used by Aberdeen-bound services if two trains are scheduled to pass here).

Services

There is approximately one service per two hours in each direction, with some additional trains at weekday peak-times. The first morning eastbound service runs to Dundee and Edinburgh Waverley, whilst the last evening service in the opposite direction comes from there; certain peak hour trains only run to/from Elgin, including one through working from Kyle of Lochalsh.[2]

On Sundays, there are five trains each way between Aberdeen & Inverness, plus a pair of services from the latter that run only as far as Elgin.

Transport Scotland and Scotrail intend to improve the service frequencies from here to Elgin & Inverness to hourly from 2018.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Section C - 2000The Signal Box; Retrieved 2013-10-09
  2. ↑ GB National Rail Timetable May - December 2016, Table 240
  3. ↑ "‘Rail revolution’ means 200 more services and 20,000 more seats for Scots passengers"Transport Scotland press release 15 March 2016; Retrieved 18 August 2016

Further reading

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Forres   Abellio ScotRail
Aberdeen to Inverness Line		   Inverness
Historical railways
Connection to
Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway		   Inverness and Nairn Railway   Gollanfield Junction
Line open; Station closed
Auldearn
Line open; Station closed		   Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway   Connection to
Inverness and Nairn Railway
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