Thurso railway station is a railway station serving the town of Thurso, Highland, 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...

. The station is 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 :...

, within the former county of Caithness. It is the northernmost station on the National Rail

National Rail

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 network: 248 km (154.1 mi) north 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...

. It was founded in 1911.

While the station is at the terminus of the Thurso Branch, it is not the operational end of the Far North Line. The train, after arriving at Thurso, goes back to , before heading east for , the terminus.

In the past, the four car train would split in half at Georgemas, with one half going to Wick, and the other to Thurso. Prior to the introduction of multiple unit trains, a locomotive would be based at Georgemas Junction to take the Thurso portion to and from the junction.