Kinbrace railway station is a railway station serving the village of Kinbrace in the Highland

Highland (council area)

Highland is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom as a whole. It shares borders with the council areas of Moray, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross, and Argyll and Bute. Their councils, and those of Angus and...

 council area in the north of Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. It is located on the Far North Line

Far North Line

The Far North Line is a rural railway line entirely within the Highland area of Scotland, extending from Inverness to Thurso and Wick.- Route :...

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History

had been linked to by rail in 1870. The Sutherland and Caithness Railway

Sutherland and Caithness Railway

The Sutherland and Caithness Railway was a railway worked by, and later absorbed by the Highland Railway running through Sutherland and Caithness, Scotland. Caithness and Sutherland are former counties, and former districts of the Highland region.- History :...

 was formed in 1871 to carry the railway onward to and , by a route which took it through Strath Ullie. The line opened on 28 July 1874, and included a station at Kinbrace.

The Far North Line between Inverness, Wick, and Thurso was listed for closure in the Beeching Report; among the stations listed for closure was Kinbrace, but the plans to close the line through Kinbrace were never enacted.

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