Place Huntly Station code HNT 2011/12 93,792 Opened 1854 | Grid reference NJ535396 2012/13 94,026 Number of platforms 2 | |
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Address Huntly AB54 6HY, United Kingdom Similar | ||
Huntly railway station aberdeenshire scotland 1 10 2010
Huntly railway station is a railway station serving the town of Huntly in Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line.
Contents
The original station building has been demolished and replaced with a smaller ticket office (staffed part-time) and waiting room.
A small good yard is located adjacent to the station and operated by EWS/DB Schenker. Traffic to the yard appears infrequent. A goods shed remains standing within the yard.
History
The station was opened by the Great North of Scotland Railway on 20 September 1854. with the commissioning of the line from the original Waterloo terminus in Aberdeen. The route onwards to Keith followed in 1856, with the through link to the new joint station at Aberdeen completed in November 1867 to connect the GNSR to the Aberdeen Railway.
Services
There is a basic two-hourly frequency in each directions (with peak extras), to Inverness via Elgin northbound and Aberdeen southbound (11 trains each way in total). The first departure to Aberdeen each weekday & Saturday continues south to Edinburgh Waverley and there is a return working in the evening. On Sundays there are five trains each way, with a southbound through working to Glasgow Queen Street.