Inverness railway station

Inverness
Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Nis
Inverness railway station
Location
Place	Inverness
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates	57°28′48″N 4°13′23″W / 57.4800°N 4.2230°W / 57.4800; -4.2230Coordinates: 57°28′48″N 4°13′23″W / 57.4800°N 4.2230°W / 57.4800; -4.2230
Grid reference	NH667454
Operations
Station code	INV
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Owned by	Network Rail
Number of platforms	7
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12	1.180 million
2012/13	1.213 million
2013/14	1.282 million
2014/15	1.304 million
– Interchange	72,055
2015/16	1.307 million
– Interchange	64,364
History
Original company	Inverness and Nairn Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMS
5 November 1855	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Inverness from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

[ ] Inverness approaches
Far North and Kyle of Lochalsh Lines Inverness station: Ness Viaduct over River Ness Platforms 6 & 7 Rose Street Junction Platform 5 Inverness TMD on both sides of railway Platforms 1 to 4 Welsh's Bridge Junction Millburn Junction Highland Main Line Aberdeen to Inverness Line

Inverness railway station is the railway station serving the Scottish city of Inverness.

Opened on 5 November 1855 as the western terminus of the Inverness and Nairn Railway to designs by the architect, Joseph Mitchell. The platform roofs were extended in 1876 by Murdoch Paterson. Between 1966 and 1968 under British Rail the station buildings were replaced, the new design by Thomas Munro and Company.

It is now the terminus of the Highland Main Line, the Aberdeen-Inverness Line (of which the Inverness and Nairn Railway is now a part), the Kyle of Lochalsh Line and the Far North Line.

Inverness is owned by Network Rail. However, it is operated by Abellio ScotRail who run most of the services using the station. Caledonian Sleeper and Virgin Trains East Coast run the only non-ScotRail services.

The station itself sits at one apex of a triangular junction in the centre of Inverness, with each half of the station connected to one line. The Highland Main and Aberdeen Lines both approach the station from the east and use Platforms 1-4, while the Far North Line (which also carries traffic heading for the Kyle Line) approach from the north-west and use Platforms 5-7. Platform 5 also has a connection from the east side, but it is only usable by a two car train, and even then, it must not be in passenger service and movements from Platform 5 to the east line are not allowed.

A single parliamentary train is run along the third chord of the triangle each weekday, as part of a through Kyle-Elgin service, which runs across the chord before reversing into the station. In the 2013 timetable, this is currently the 1714 Kyle-Elgin service.