A History of Britain’s Railways
Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway
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Nairn Railway
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This line runs through an area of farmed countryside with a few large towns - Nairn, Forres and Elgin. There are large military airports at Kinloss and Lossiemouth to the north of the line.
From Nairn to Keith. The line was prepared for doubling between Nairn and Alves but was single throughout with passing loops.
The Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway
formed an end-on junction with the Great
North of Scotland Railway at Keith. A joint station was operated. There
was a bay platform at Keith at the west end which was used by the Buckie trains.
The Highland Railway's
signalbox at the west end of the station was mounted above the through track.
Keith West Junction
Also known as Aultmore
Junction. The Buckie
and Portessie Branch (Highland Railway) joined at this point, the junction
faced east towards Keith.
Tauchers Platform
Some timber remains of the platform facing.
Mulben
This station is closed but the station building
still stands.
Orton
To the south of Orton a line, via Sourden,
joined the Morayshire
Railway at Rothes. This line was built by the Morayshire Railway and operated
by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway. The track is on the other side
of the building shown from the road.
Orbliston Junction
This was the junction for the Fochabers branch. The station building remains here.
This station is closed but the old station
building remains standing.
Elgin (West) (HR)
The left photograph shows the replacement station
building for the original Highland Railway building at this station. The GNSR
station is to the right,
behind the camera. The up platform shown here continues to form a through platform
on the other station, which is now closed to passengers. The right photograph
shows the GNSR line passing over the Highland Railway line as it heads down
to Craigellachie.
Mosstowie
Little now remains of this station except a
short section of platform.
Alves
This closed station is well preserved. The
station was located at the eastern end of double track running east from Inverness.
From here to Elgin the line was single track with passing places. Today the
line of the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway is single throughout. This
is the junction for the Hopeman
Branch.
Kinloss
This closed station retains its platforms and station buildings. The signalbox survived into the 1980s.
It was the junction for the briefly open Findhorn Railway which may have left from an east facing junction to the east of the station.
The original station here became a goods line bypass when the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway was constructed. The new station was built on a new east-west line and had platforms on each side of a triangular junction with the Perth line. The Perth-Elgin or east curve had only one platform the others having two. The goods bypass survived as a siding approached from the east until recently.
The passing loop here is now by the East box outwith the station area.
This station is closed but the station building
remains.
Auldearn
The Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway joined the Inverness and Nairn Railway at this point. To reach the station the line had to cross the viaduct shown here. The viaduct was built with provision for double track, but today only supports one track.
