The Far North line runs north from Inverness to Thurso and Wick.
The route was formed by the Inverness and Ross-shire Railway, Sutherland Railway, Duke of Sutherland's Railway and Sutherland and Caithness Railway. It serves towns on the east coast of Scotland north of Inverness.
The lines came to be owned by the Highland Railway which ran to Perth in the south, Keith in the east, Inverness in the centre, Kyle of Lochalsh in the west and Thurso and Wick in the north.
The Far North line runs north from Inverness to Thurso and Wick via Dingwall, Invergordon, Tain, Lairg, Brora and Helmsdale. Much of the route runs by the sea on the east coast of the Far North of Scotland.
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This is a seven platform terminus for services to and from locations to the south such as Glasgow Queen Street High Level, Edinburgh Waverley and London, and locations north and west such as Kyle of Lochalsh, Thurso and Wick.
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This station is in the south of the town of Beauly. It has a very short platform. It was formerly a two platform station. The new platform uses a short section of the former northbound platform. There is a car park.
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This is a single platform station in the south of the village of Conon Bridge. It has a short platform and a small car park.
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This is a two platform station. The main station building was similar to that at Dalwhinnie but with a canopy with end screens. It was on the down (northbound) platform. It was, like that at Dalwhinnie, a replacement for a building which burned down (in 1922). It has been demolished.
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This is a two platform station on the Far North Line which opened in 1862. It has a fine station building on the northbound platform with a large glazed canopy. There is a car park and a lattice footbridge over to the southbound platform.
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This is a single platform station. There is a car park and platform shelter. It is in the south of Alness itself.
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This is a two platform station with a passing loop and car park. The main station building remains standing on the southbound platform. It retains a platform canopy. The platform side features a mural ^The Long Goodbye^, by Tracey Shough, commemorating the 4th battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders. The waiting shelter on the northbound platform still stands. Unfortunately the footbridge has been ...
More detailsThis is a one platform station, the former southbound platform. The loop line is lifted and northbound platform out of use.
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This is a two platform station with a passing loop on the Far North Line. The main station building, with an ^H^ plan and located on the northbound platform, has been renovated and is now host to the restaurant ^Platform 1864 ^. The lattice footbridge between the platforms remains.
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This is a two platform station with a passing loop on the Far North Line. The northbound platform retains its two storey station building with a platform awning supported by pillars, now a house, and a goods yard exists to the south, west side of the line, currently in permanent way maintenance use. The station had refreshment rooms to the north of the station building. Platforms are linked by ...
More detailsThis is a single platform station with a small shelter south of the Oykel Viaduct. It is in an area of scattered houses, farmland and low population. Culrain Mains is to the immediate west. The Kyle of Sutherland, and the lower River Oykel, are to the east.
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This is a single platform station, immediately to the north of the Oykel Viaduct with a short timber portion at the south end where the line rises on an embankment on approach to the viaduct. The station building is in a state of ruin. Culrain station is to the south over the Oykel Viaduct. The station has no car park.
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This is a two platform station on the Far North Line. Station buildings remain standing and there is an oil depot siding south of the station (Lairg Oil Depot).
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This is a two platform station with a loop on the Far North Line. A stone built cottage style station building remains standing on the northbound platform. The platforms were extended at their western ends in timber.
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This is a single platform station which retains its station building, ^B^ listed, which is now a house after spending several years derelict and at risk. The building opened with the station, the architect was William Fowler. The building has a unique design, presumably with the Duke of Sutherland^s patronage in mind.
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This is a single platform station close to Dunrobin Castle [Castle]. It is noted for its station building (really a private waiting room).
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This is a two platform station on the Far North Line with a passing loop and a car park.
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This is a two platform station with a passing loop on the Far North Line. The main station building, of two storeys, is on the southbound platform. This has similarities to that at Golspie, by the same architect William Fowler. Platforms are linked by a typical Highland Railway lattice footbridge.
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This is a single platform station on the Far North Line. The platform is on the east side of the line. There is a level crossing to the immediate south of the station.
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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.
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This is a two platform station with a passing loop. It is separated from the goods yard to the south, which is now a permanent way siding, by a level crossing.
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This is a one platform station on the Far North Line with a permanent way siding to the south on the east side of the line, the former goods yard.
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This is a one platform (the former northbound platform) station on the Far North Line. The main station building still stands on the platform and there is a small car park.
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^The Georgemas^ is the furthest north junction in Britain and is also a station. Here the lines to Wick and Thurso (accessed by reversal for a train from the south) divide. The station building remains standing, the ground floor formerly having been the offices and upper floor staff accommodation.
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This is the end of the Far North Line from Inverness, the most distant station from the rest of the network. The furthest north station is Thurso. The station is to the south of the River Wick, in the west of the town. The town has a considerable harbour on Wick Bay, built for the once large fishing fleet.
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^The Georgemas^ is the furthest north junction in Britain and is also a station. Here the lines to Wick and Thurso (accessed by reversal for a train from the south) divide. The station building remains standing, the ground floor formerly having been the offices and upper floor staff accommodation.
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This is a two platform station and is the furthest north station in Britain. The main platform, on the west side of the station^s loop, is partly covered by the all-over timber roof of the station, a remarkable survivor, all the more remarkable that Wick has also survived. The other and shorter platform, without a loop, is on the west side of the island platform.
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