Inverurie railway station
Inverurie railway station is a railway station serving the town of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the single-track Aberdeen to Inverness Line. It is also the terminus for some trains on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Lines through Aberdeen as part of the Aberdeen Crossrail project. The station, Category B listed, is single storied and has a cupola with windvane.[4][3] The main building, adjacent to the car park to the west, is on platform 1 which is used for most trains at the two-platform through station.
Inverurie  | |
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| Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Uaraidh[1] | |
 ScotRail HST at Inverurie Station, June 2019 | |
| Location | |
| Place | Inverurie |
| Local authority | Aberdeenshire |
| Coordinates | 57.2867°N 2.3737°W |
| Grid reference | NJ775217 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | INR |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2014/15 |  |
| 2015/16 |  |
| 2016/17 |  |
| 2017/18 | |
| 2018/19 | |
| History | |
| Pre-grouping | Great North of Scotland Railway |
| 20 September 1854[2] | Opened as Inverury |
| 1 May 1866[2] | Renamed |
| 10 February 1902[2] | Resited 805m north |
| Listed status | |
| Listing grade | Category B |
| Entry number | LB46174[3] |
| Added to list | 18 May 1999 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
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History
The first station, then called Inverury Station, was opened on 20 September 1854 on the Great North of Scotland Railway main line which ran between Aberdeen Waterloo and Keith stations. It was situated 805 metres south of the present station.[2] In 1856 it became the junction station for the new Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway branch line to Oldmeldrum. Renamed Inverurie Station in 1866, it was replaced in 1902 with a new building with three platforms at the present location close to the Inverurie Locomotive Works which was then being built.[5] The station ceased to be a junction station in 1931 when the branch line was closed to passengers although freight traffic continued until 1966.[4][6]
Services
Dec 2019
- 11 trains per day (approximately 1 train every 2 hours) between Aberdeen and Inverness, calling at all stations. One per day continues to Edinburgh Waverley and one to Stonehaven. One per day originates from Dundee, and another from Glasgow Queen Street
- Approximately 1 train per hour southbound to Montrose, calling at all stations. This starts from Inverurie.
- Additional shuttle services between here and Aberdeen to fill gaps in the service, giving 2 - 3 trains per hour between here and Aberdeen. One train per day originates from Huntly.[7]
2018 Improvements
Service frequencies improved here from 2018 as part of the timetable recast funded by Transport Scotland. A new "Aberdeen Crossrail" commuter service was introduced from here to Montrose, which calls at all intermediate stations en route once per hour.[8] There are now at least two departures each hour to Aberdeen, with the existing through services to Inverness, Edinburgh & Glasgow maintained or increased in number. A £170 million project to upgrade the Aberdeen to Inverness route saw the line from Aberdeen redoubled in between June and August 2019.[9]
Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway
The branch line to Oldmeldrum was opened by the Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway company in 1856 and ran via Lethenty to Old Meldrum station (as it was then called). Fingask was opened in 1866 and the company was absorbed into the Great North of Scotland Railway also in that year. A proposed extension to the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction Railway was considered but this was never built. The line was closed for passengers in 1931 and for freight in 1966.[10]
| Preceding station | |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dyce | Abellio ScotRail Aberdeen to Inverness Line |
Insch | ||
| Dyce | Abellio ScotRail Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line |
Terminus | ||
| Dyce | Abellio ScotRail Glasgow to Aberdeen Line |
Terminus | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Kintore Line open; Station closed |
Great North of Scotland Railway GNoSR Main Line |
Inveramsay Line open; Station closed | ||
| Terminus | Great North of Scotland Railway Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway |
Lethenty | ||
References
- Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
- Butt 1995, p. 128
- Historic Environment Scotland. "Inverurie Railway Station (Category B) (LB46174)". Retrieved 25 March 2019.
- "Inverurie, Station Road, Inverury Railway Station". Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- "Inverurie, Old Station". Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- "Chronology for Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway". RAILSCOT. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- ScotRail. "Inverness to Aberdeen Dec 2019 Timetable" (PDF). scotrail.co.uk. ScotRail. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- "‘Rail revolution’ means 200 more services and 20,000 more seats for Scots passengers" Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback MachineTransport Scotland press release 15 March 2016; Retrieved 19 August 2016
- "Aberdeen to Inverness Rail Improvement Project, Scotland"Railway-technology.com article; Retrieved 19 August 2016
- "Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway". A History of Britain's Railways. RAILSCOT. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
Sources
- Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
- "RAILSCOT on Great North of Scotland Railw1854ay".
- "RAILSCOT on Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway".
- "National Rail Timetable 240 (May 2012) - Aberdeen and Elgin - Inverness" (PDF).