Date: 23/09/2006

A 30-year-old man dies after being struck by a train on the Inverness to Wick railway line at Alness.

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The single platform Alness station, on the Far North of Scotland line, looking north on the evening of 17th June 2019. This was one of several stations on the line that closed on 13th June 1960 (along with the branch from The Mound to Dornoch), an attempt at closure by stealth of the entire line although Rogart, also closed at that time, reopened very quickly on 6th March 1961. After the line was saved (and quite rightly, too) several other closed stations were later reopened and Alness came back from the dead on 7th May 1973. It is just a basic platform with, inevitably, a ubiquitous bus stop style waiting shelter but better that than no station at all for this very pleasant Highlands town.
Location: Alness
Company: Inverness and Ross-shire Railway
17/06/2019 David Bosher

DRS 37218 and 37605 top and tail the nuclear flask train southwards between Invergordon and Alness on 1 May 2015. In the background the Cromarty Firth, with a couple of drilling platforms awaiting a recall to the North Sea.
Location: Alness
Company: Inverness and Ross-shire Railway
01/05/2015 John Gray

The 1236 from Wick calls at Alness on time at 1603 heading for Inverness. A couple of passengers join 158709 which will arrive in Inverness in 45 minutes time. View north towards Invergordon from the local academy footbridge.
Location: Alness
Company: Inverness and Ross-shire Railway
29/06/2011 Mark Bartlett