Inverurie railway station
Inverurie 
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Southbound train at Inverurie station in 2005
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| Location | |
| Place | Inverurie |
| Local authority | Aberdeenshire |
| Coordinates | 57°17′12″N 2°22′25″W / 57.2867°N 2.3737°WCoordinates: 57°17′12″N 2°22′25″W / 57.2867°N 2.3737°W |
| Grid reference | NJ775217 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | INR |
| 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 |
 0.404 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.452 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.502 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.534 million |
| 2015/16 |
 0.534 million |
| History | |
| Pre-grouping | Great North of Scotland Railway |
| 20 September 1854 | Opened as Inverury |
| 1 May 1866 | Renamed |
| 10 February 1902 | Resited 805m north |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Inverurie from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Inverurie railway station is a railway station serving the town of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the single-track Aberdeen to Inverness Line. Also, it is the terminus for some trains on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Lines through Aberdeen as part of the Aberdeen Crossrail project. The station, Category B listed, is single storied and has a cupola with windvane. The main building, adjacent to the car park to the west, is on platform 1 which is used for most trains at the two-platform through station.
The first station, then called Inverury Station, was opened on 20 September 1854 on the Great North of Scotland Railway main line which ran between Aberdeen Waterloo and Keith stations. It was situated 805 metres south of the present station. In 1856 it became the junction station for the new Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway branch line to Oldmeldrum. Renamed Inverurie Station in 1866, it was replaced in 1902 with a new building with three platforms at the present location close to the Inverurie Locomotive Works which was then being built. The station ceased to be a junction station in 1931 when the branch line was closed to passengers although freight traffic continued until 1966.
Service frequencies are to be improved here from 2018 as part of a timetable recast funded by Transport Scotland. A new "Aberdeen Crossrail" commuter service is to be introduced from here to Montrose, which will call at all intermediate stations en-route once per hour. There will then be two departures each hour to Aberdeen, with the existing through services to Inverness, Edinburgh & Glasgow maintained or increased in number. A £170 million project to upgrade the Aberdeen to Inverness route will also see the line from Aberdeen redoubled by 2019.
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