Carrbridge railway station is a railway station

Train station

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 serving the village of Carrbridge

Carrbridge

Carrbridge is a village in Badenoch and Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands. It lies off the A9 road on the A938 road, west of Skye of Curr, southeast of Findhom Bridge, near Bogroy.It has the oldest stone bridge in the Highlands and nearby ancient pine forest contains the Landmark Forest...

, Highland

Highland (council area)

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, Scotland

Scotland

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. The station is managed by First ScotRail

First ScotRail

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 and is on the Highland Main Line

Highland Main Line

The Highland Main Line is a railway line in Scotland. It is long and runs through the Scottish Highlands linking a series of small towns and villages with Perth at one end and Inverness at the other. Today, services between Inverness and Edinburgh, Glasgow and London use the line...

, 44 km (27¼ miles) south east of Inverness

Inverness railway station

Inverness railway station is the railway station serving the Scottish city of Inverness.- History :Opened on 5 November 1855 as the western terminus of the Inverness and Nairn Railway, it is now the terminus of the Highland Main Line, the Aberdeen-Inverness Line , the Kyle of Lochalsh Line and the...

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History

The station was opened on 8 July 1892 when the line to Aviemore opened. Services to Inverness commenced on 1 November 1898.

Incidents

There have been two accidents at Carrbridge, one in 1914 and another in 2010.

Services

There is a service of around five trains a day daily northbound to Inverness and five southbound, with one towards and three trains a day to Edinburgh

Edinburgh Waverley railway station

Edinburgh Waverley railway station is the main railway station in the Scottish capital Edinburgh. Covering an area of over 25 acres in the centre of the city, it is the second-largest main line railway station in the United Kingdom in terms of area, the largest being...

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