Kinbrace

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Kinbrace (1874-)

Station code: KBC National Rail ScotRail
Where: Highland, Scotland
Opened on the Sutherland and Caithness Railway.
Open on the Far North Line.

Description

This is a single platform station, formerly with two platforms and a loop. The cottage style station building still stands, in use as a house. To the north is a level crossing. There is no car park.

The building was on the southbound platform.

To the south of the station, on the east side of the line, was the goods yard. There was a goods shed, alongside the loop and loading banks on the east side, approached from the south.

The goods yard was equipped with a chute for loading deer carcasses onto trains (the product of the blood sport shooting season).

There were two signal boxes, opened in 1894. The north box was by the level crossing at the north end of the southbound platform. The south box was on the west side at the south end of the loop, opposite the goods yard turn out.

The boxes and loop were taken out in 1966. As the northbound platform was the straight through line and southbound the loop there has been a little realignment to straighten the line.

The goods yard remains, out of use, with its loading banks.

A timber loading point was established in recent years south of the station, Kinbrace Timber Loading.

Drifting snow was a problem to the north of this station. There were long lengths of snow fences (pallisaded former sleepers) and even a snow blower.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67



Nearby stations
Borrobol
Kildonan
Forsinard
Salzcraggie
Altnabreac
Helmsdale
West Helmsdale
Loth
Brora
Dunrobin Castle
Golspie
Rogart
Scotscalder
The Mound
Cambusavie Platform
Kinbrace Timber Loading
Old Kinbrace Railway Cottage
River Helmsdale Bridge
Carbuie Railway Cottage
Kildonan Gold Rush
Limeside Railway Cottage
Craggie Burn Bridge
Kileanan Railway Cottage
County March Summit [Sutherland and Caithness]
Claiseag Railway Cottage
Tourist/other
Loch an Ruathair
Borrobol Lodge
Kilearnan Hill
Salscraggie Lodge
Lochdhu Lodge
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

28/07/1874Sutherland and Caithness Railway
Line opened from Helmsdale (Duke of Sutherland's Railway) to Wick with stations at Salzcraggie (Private), Kildonan, Kinbrace, Forsinard, Altnabreac, Scotscalder, Halkirk, Georgemas Junction, Hoy, Thurso, Bower, Watten, Bilbster and Wick.

News items

19/12/2022Further request-stop kiosks added on Far North Line [Network Rail]
28/12/2021Waving good-bye to hand-signal stops on Far North Line [Network Rail]
28/12/2021Wave goodbye to quirky hand signal stops across Scottish Highland stations [Scotsman]
04/11/2021Deer leaps to avoid train danger [Network Rail]
17/02/2021Battle to clear railway snow drifts could be won today, ScotRail hopes [Inverness Courier]
16/02/2021Snow drifts continue to bring railway misery on Highland routes [Inverness Courier]
15/02/2021Snow drifts up to 50 metres long bury railway lines [Inverness Courier]
03/07/2019Far north rail freight service back on track for delayed trial run [Press and Journal]
05/10/2004Talk The Highland Rail Partnership by Frank Roach, Rail Development Manager [CILT]
05/12/2002Scottish Executive awards EWS with £1m for timber traffic [Railscot]

Books


Highland Survivor