Elgin railway station
Elgin 
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Elgin railway station, looking towards Inverness
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| Location | |
| Place | Elgin |
| Local authority | Moray |
| Coordinates | 57°38′34″N 3°18′40″W / 57.6428°N 3.3110°WCoordinates: 57°38′34″N 3°18′40″W / 57.6428°N 3.3110°W |
| Grid reference | NJ218621 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | ELG |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.307 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.322 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.335 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.342 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.344 million |
| History | |
| 10 August 1852 | GNSR station opened |
| 25 March 1858 | Highland station opened |
| 6 May 1968 | GNSR station closed |
| 1990 | Highland station rebuilt |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Elgin from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Elgin railway station is a railway station serving the town of Elgin, Moray in Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line.
The station has two platforms linked by a footbridge, and a booking office/waiting room with a vending machine. One of the route's passing loops is located here, under the control of Elgin West signal box (which also supervises an adjacent level crossing). This signal box is now the most northerly manual box still in operation on the UK railway network (all those to the north of Inverness having been closed back in the 1980s when the station area was resignalled and RETB working introduced on the Kyle and Far North lines).
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 (GNSR), which was first opened by the Morayshire Railway. The latter's lines to Lossiemouth and Craigellachie (where it joined the Strathspey Railway (GNoSR)) were subsequently joined by the GNSR Morayshire Coast line in 1886/7. All three of the GNSR 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.
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