Nairn railway station

Nairn
Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Narann
Location
Place	Nairn
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates	57°34′49″N 3°52′18″W / 57.5803°N 3.8716°WCoordinates: 57°34′49″N 3°52′18″W / 57.5803°N 3.8716°W
Grid reference	NH881560
Operations
Station code	NRN
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	71,742
2004/05	80,626
2005/06	85,488
2006/07	75,353
2007/08	70,454
2008/09	75,490
2009/10	83,980
2010/11	0.101 million
2011/12	0.112 million
2012/13	0.112 million
2013/14	0.117 million
2014/15	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.

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.

Notes

1. Section C - 2000The Signal Box; Retrieved 2013-10-09
2. GB National Rail Timetable 8 December 2013 to 17 May 2014, Table 240

Further reading

• Allen, David (26 August – 8 September 1998). "The last of its kind...". RAIL. No. 338 (EMAP Apex Publications). pp. 32–34. ISSN 0953-4563. OCLC 49953699.

External links

• Railscot - Nairn