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This was a two platform station just to the north of the large Culloden Viaduct. In addition to serving the local community the station was specifically advertised as being close to the Culloden Battlefield Memorial.

Today the platforms remain intact but the buildings, the main one of which was at the south end on the southbound platform, are gone. (Similar buildings were at Daviot and Tomatin.) A number of former railway houses remain near the station site - the station master's house and a row of railwaymen's cottages.

Water columns were provided on both platforms. The water tank was on the northbound platform.

The goods yard was at the south end, east side of the line, and approached from the south. This was the are in which the material from the cutting to the north west was deposited during construction. In the 1920s, the station's sidings were used to store redundant locomotives.

The signal box was on the southbound platform, south of the station building and goods shed (which backed onto the platform). It opened with the station in 1898.

Due to the proximity of the road bridge, which crossed the station's platforms, the lattice footbridge at the south end of the station was removed in the 1920s.

The line south to Daviot was singled in 1968.

There was a bitumen depot at the south end, east side of the line. Trains delivering here would continue north to Millburn Yard, Inverness, where had sidings with heating for the deliveries to Culloden.

Unfortunately the bitument depot closed in the late 1980s / early 1990s when the traffic from Ardrossan Refinery ceased.

The signal box closed in 1987 when it was taken over by the Inverness Signalling Centre.

There has been considerable development of new housing to the west of the former station at Balloch and Smithton since the station's closure, an area through which the line runs.

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The Culloden Battlefield Memorial is a mile to the west.

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