Tour Scotland Winter photograph of the railway station in Aviemore, Scotland. The village began to grow as a result of it becoming a railway junction in 1898. Aviemore was one of the first skiing resorts to be established in Scotland. It is now a major Scottish a town and tourist resort. The station, which is owned by Network Rail and managed by Abellio ScotRail, is on the Highland Main Line between Perth and Inverness, and is also the southern terminus of the Strathspey preserved railway. The current station was opened in 1898, to designs by the architect William Roberts when the " direct " line to Inverness via Slochd was built, making Aviemore an important junction and replacing the original 1863 building. William Roberts also provided an engine shed to the north of the station in 1896. It became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway after the Grouping of 1923, then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
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