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This two platform station still has a station building, signal box and footbridge. It is located at the north end of the double track section from Blair Atholl. The main building is on the southbound platform. The station is at 1174 ft above sea level.

The station had, from 1885, two signal boxes. Both boxes were on the west side of the line at either end of the station. They were replaced in 1909, with a new box occupying the site of the north box, when the line from Balsporan Box to south was doubled.

The line south reverted to a single track in 1966 and was redoubled in 1978.

Today the line south remains double track and the route north is single.

North of the station is the signal box, and base of a water tank, on the west side. Both platforms had a water column. Opposite the tank and box was the goods yard, now a permanent way siding, on the east side of the line.

Dalwhinnie Turntable was on the west side, just north of the water tank. The turntable was approached from the north. The turntable was gone by the 1920s.

Dalwhinnie Distillery, north of the station on the east side, was served by a siding.

The name arose from the meeting of drove roads at this location, Dail-coinneeamh in Gaelic. The famous Thieves' Road runs south from here by Loch Ericht to Corrour. The other routes are roads today.

The line is supported and promoted by the Highland Main Line Community Partnership .

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Dalwhinnie Distillery is north of the station.

Dalwhinnie Distillery

Opposite the station is 2 Station Cottage .

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