Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Aviemore, Scottish Gaelic: An Aghaidh Mhòr, now a tourist resort, situated within the Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands in Badenoch and Strathspey. It is popular these days for skiing and other winter sports, and for hill walking in the Cairngorm Mountains. The village began to grow as a result of it becoming a railway junction in 1898. The railway station is located on the Highland Main Line between Perth, Perthshire, and Inverness, Highlands. The line was opened by the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway in 1863, subsequently becoming part of the Highland 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.
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