Old Photographs Railway Station Elgin Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Elgin, Moray, Scotland. Elgin was formerly served by two stations, one owned by the Highland Railway, first opened by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway and known as Elgin West, and one by the Great North of Scotland Railway, which was first opened by the Morayshire Railway. The latter's lines to Lossiemouth and Craigellachie, where it joined the Strathspey Railway, were subsequently joined by the Morayshire Coast line in 1886. All three of the Great North of Scotland Railway routes were closed in the 1960s as a result of the Beeching Axe, with the Lossiemouth branch the first to go in April 1964 and the other two routes following in May 1968. The present station, formerly the West Highland station, opened on 25 March 1858, was retained and was rebuilt in a modern style by British Rail in 1990. The basic service at the station is two trains hourly in each direction, west to Inverness and east to Aberdeen, though a small number of trains also start and end here from the Inverness direction. The first eastbound train each weekday continues through to Dundee and Edinburgh Waverley, with a balancing service in the opposite direction in the late evening. On Sundays, there are five trains each way, one of which runs through to Glasgow Queen Street via Aberdeen, and two from Glasgow via Inverness that end here. A single train per day terminates at Elgin having come from Kyle of Lochalsh on the west coast via Inverness. History Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.



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