Huntly railway station
Huntly 
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Huntly station c.1971. The station has since been redeveloped.
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| Location | |
| Place | Huntly |
| Local authority | Aberdeenshire |
| Coordinates | 57°26′40″N 2°46′33″W / 57.4445°N 2.7758°WCoordinates: 57°26′40″N 2°46′33″W / 57.4445°N 2.7758°W |
| Grid reference | NJ535396 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | HNT |
| 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 |
 93,792 |
| 2012/13 |
94,026 |
| 2013/14 |
98,276 |
| 2014/15 |
0.104 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.106 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Great North of Scotland Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great North of Scotland Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| 20 September 1854 | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Huntly from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Huntly railway station is a railway station serving the town of Huntly in Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line.
The original station building, which had an overall roof and was described in 1898 as, "a decent structure of the old fashioned 'roofed-over' type", has been demolished and replaced with a smaller ticket office (staffed part-time) and waiting room.
A small good yard is located adjacent to the station and operated by EWS/DB Schenker. Traffic to the yard appears infrequent. A goods shed remains standing within the yard.
The station was opened by the Great North of Scotland Railway on 20 September 1854, with the commissioning of the line from the original Waterloo terminus in Aberdeen. A goods service had started a week earlier. The initial passenger service took 2 hours, with 3 trains a day, calling at all stations. Only mail trains ran on Sundays. The route onwards to Keith followed on 11 October 1856, with the through link to the new joint station at Aberdeen completed in November 1867 to connect the GNSR to the Aberdeen Railway. The track was doubled in 1896, when a non-stop train from Aberdeen was speeded up to a 45 minute schedule for the 40 3⁄4 mi (65.6 km), though it ceased when the overnight London express was slowed later that year.
There is a basic two-hourly frequency in each directions (with peak extras), to Inverness via Elgin northbound and Aberdeen southbound (11 trains each way in total). The first departure to Aberdeen each weekday & Saturday continues south to Edinburgh Waverley and there is a return working in the evening. On Sundays there are five trains each way, with a southbound through working to Glasgow Queen Street.
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