Inverurie railway station

Inverurie Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Uaraidh[1]
ScotRail HST at Inverurie Station, June 2019
Location	Inverurie, Aberdeenshire Scotland
Coordinates	57°17′12″N 2°22′25″W / 57.2867°N 2.3737°W / 57.2867; -2.3737Coordinates: 57°17′12″N 2°22′25″W / 57.2867°N 2.3737°W / 57.2867; -2.3737
Grid reference	NJ775217
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	INR
History
Pre-grouping	Great North of Scotland Railway
Key dates
20 September 1854[2]	Opened as Inverury
1 May 1866[2]	Renamed
10 February 1902[2]	Resited 805 m (880 yd) north
Passengers
2015/16	0.534 million
2016/17	0.512 million
2017/18	0.489 million
2018/19	0.356 million
2019/20	0.339 million
Listed Building – Category B
Designated	18 May 1999
Reference no.	LB46174[3]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Inverurie railway station is a railway station serving the town of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line, which is mostly single track north of this point. It is also 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.^[4][3] The main building, adjacent to the car park to the west, is on platform 1.

History[]

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 (880 yd) south of the present station.^[2] 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.^[5] The station ceased to be a junction station in 1931 when the branch line was closed to passengers although freight traffic continued until 1966.^[4][6]

Services[]

Dec 2019[]

• 11 trains per day (approximately 1 train every 2 hours) between Aberdeen and Inverness, calling at all stations. One per day continues to Edinburgh Waverley and one to Stonehaven. One per day originates from Dundee, and another from Glasgow Queen Street
• Approximately 1 train per hour southbound to Montrose, calling at all stations. This starts from Inverurie.
• Additional shuttle services between here and Aberdeen to fill gaps in the service, giving 2 - 3 trains per hour between here and Aberdeen. One train per day originates from Huntly.^[7]

2018 improvements[]

Service frequencies improved here from 2018 as part of the timetable recast funded by Transport Scotland. A new "Aberdeen Crossrail" commuter service was introduced from here to Montrose, which calls at all intermediate stations en route once per hour.^[8] There are now at least 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 saw the line from Aberdeen redoubled in between June and August 2019.^[9]

Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway[]

The branch line to Oldmeldrum was opened by the Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway company in 1856 and ran via Lethenty to Old Meldrum station (as it was then called). Fingask was opened in 1866 and the company was absorbed into the Great North of Scotland Railway also in that year. A proposed extension to the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction Railway was considered but this was never built. The line was closed for passengers in 1931 and for freight in 1966.^[10]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Kintore		Abellio ScotRail Aberdeen to Inverness Line		Insch
	Historical railways
Kintore Line and station open		Great North of Scotland Railway GNoSR Main Line		Inveramsay Line open; Station closed
Terminus		Great North of Scotland Railway Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway		Lethenty

References[]

Sources[]

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• "RAILSCOT on Great North of Scotland Railw1854ay".
• "RAILSCOT on Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway".
• "National Rail Timetable 240 (May 2012) - Aberdeen and Elgin - Inverness" (PDF).