Beauly railway station

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Template other Beauly railway station is a railway station in the village of Beauly, in the Highland council area of Scotland. Located on the Far North Line, it is down the line from Template:Rws, and is the first intermediate station on the line, before reaching Muir of Ord. ScotRail, which manages the station, operates all services.

History

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Beauly station in 1961

Original station

The Inverness and Ross-shire Railway, which was to be a line between Template:Rws and Template:Rws, was authorised in 1860, and opened in stages.Template:Sfn The first section, between Inverness and Template:Rws, opened on 11 June 1862, and Beauly was one of the stations built for the original line.Template:Sfn It had two platforms, a passing loop and a goods shed with sidings that was equipped with a 1½-ton crane. The station was host to an LMS caravan from 1936 to 1939.Template:Sfn

The station closed nearly a century later, on 13 June 1960,Template:Sfn along with all other stations between Inverness and Template:Rws. This was due to increasing competition from motorbuses, particularly those of Highland Omnibuses Ltd.

2002 reopening

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The platform, looking northwest

Following a local campaign, the station was reopened on 15 April 2002.Template:Sfn A new single platform, shelter and car park were built in a £250,000 project. The platform is the shortest in Great Britain: at the length of , it is shorter than a single carriage of a Template:Brc train that is usually used on this line. The platform's length only allows for a single door on the train to be opened, most frequently it is the frontmost door.

Facilities

There is a small car park at the station, in which there are cycle racks and lockers. On the platform, there is a modern waiting shelter, in which there is a payphone. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.

Passenger volume

Passenger Volume at Beauly

	2002–03	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16	2016–17	2017–18	2018–19	2019–20	2020–21	2021–22	2022–23
Entries and exits	21,337	26,616	28,384	35,860	41,878	52,422	51,094	49,858	54,536	55,236	57,946	57,446	59,406	52,870	51,522	48,270	46,510	14,918	30,178	36,588

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

As of the December 2024 timetable, on weekdays and Saturdays, the station sees 11 trains northbound (3 to Wick via Thurso, 4 to Kyle of Lochalsh, 1 to Dingwall, 1 to Invergordon, 1 to Ardgay and 1 to Tain), and 13 trains southbound to Inverness. On Sundays, the station sees 6 trains northbound (1 to Wick, 1 to Kyle of Lochalsh, 1 to Invergordon and 3 to Tain), and 7 trains southbound.

Preceding station	National Rail National Rail			Following station
Inverness	style="background:#Template:ScotRail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	ScotRail Kyle of Lochalsh Line Far North Line	style="background:#Template:ScotRail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Muir of Ord
	Historical railways
Clunes Line open, station closed		Highland Railway Inverness and Ross-shire Railway		Muir of Ord Line and station open

Bibliography

• R508

External links

• Train times and station information for Beauly railway station from National Rail
• Inverness and Ross-shire Railway - RailScot
• Beauly Station on navigable 1947 O.S. map