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Inverness And Nairn Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Class 47 hauled passenger train waiting at Inverness stations southbound platforms.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/591.jpg "Inverness")
![Class 47 hauled passenger train heads east at the former Gollanfield Junction station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/592.jpg "Gollanfield")
![The former station building at Gollanfield Junction station. View looks south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/593.jpg "Gollanfield")
![Nairn East signalbox viewed from the east. Nairn station behind signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/594.jpg "Nairn")
![Nairn station up platform building viewed from the south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/595.jpg "Nairn")
![B1 No61264 at Inverness.<br><br>[John Gray //]](/images/4000/4978.jpg "Inverness")
![B1 No.61264 in Inverness Yard. Standard Class 4 No.75014 immediately behind.<br><br>[John Gray //]](/images/4000/4980.jpg "Inverness")
![Standard Class 4 No.75014 is pictured on a sunny day in Inverness.<br><br>[John Gray //]](/images/5000/5258.jpg "Inverness")
![Oil train about to depart from Millburn Yard, Inverness, for Lairg.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7085.jpg "Millburn Yard")
![Looking south at Inverness station on Aberdeen bound train. The motorail ramps and freight terminal sidings on the south side of the station have been obliterated and replaced by a shopping centre and supermarkets.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8747.jpg "Inverness")
![<i>I love Skye</i> says the sticker on the front of this westbound 37 beign passed by an eastbound Sprinter at Nairn.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8748.jpg "Nairn")
![The siding for Dalcross products limited.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8754.jpg "Dalcross")
![37 416 shunting PW wagons at Millburn.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8755.jpg "Millburn Yard")
![To the immediate south of Inverness station was this building. Possibly warehouses associated with the railway? Station to right and further right the south goods yard. The building has now been re-located within Inverness and renovated. The arch on the left was a former entry point to the goods yard.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8756.jpg "Inverness")
![Inverness south goods yard looking east to Millburn. This has all been swept away for a shopping centre.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8757.jpg "Inverness")
![This was the loading ramp at Inverness used to put trains onto flatbed trucks after the Ness Viaduct collapsed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8758.jpg "Inverness")
![A pair of 47s rest outside the locomotive works at Inverness. Beyond is the carriage maintenance shed and carriage shed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8759.jpg "Inverness")
![Carriage cleaning sidings at Inverness. Now out of use.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8760.jpg "Inverness")
![Left to right; Inverness station (out of shot), locomotive works, carriage works, carriage cleaning sidings. The locomotive roundhouse stood where the auction mart is located.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8761.jpg "Inverness")
![Platform rebuilding at Inverness.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8762.jpg "Inverness")
![A Glasgow bound 47 hauled train at Inverness.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8763.jpg "Inverness")
![Inverness station and southern goods yard viewed from the back of a 47 hauled train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8764.jpg "Inverness")
![The lifted link from the Perth line to Raigmore Level Crossing on the Aberdeen line. View looks east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/8000/8765.jpg "Inverness")
![The 1140 Inverness - Aberdeen calls at Nairn, powered by 2 dirty 27s.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //]](/images/10000/10913.jpg "Nairn")
![Iris stands in platform 3 at Inverness during preparatory work for Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) installation.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //]](/images/12000/12288.jpg "Inverness")
![White Elephant. Container equipment installed behind spare locos, in the Eastgate sidings. New shopping mall can be seen behind.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //]](/images/12000/12300.jpg "Inverness")
![EWS 67007 stands in Millburn Yard, Inverness, with sections of the former Merry Street Bridge destined for the Strathspey Railway.<br><br>[Mick Golightly //]](/images/20000/20971.jpg "Inverness")
![A Class 26 (with the second man hanging out of the window) powers away from platform 2 at Inverness in the 1970s. In the distance is the Blue Circle cement silo (still receiving traffic by rail in 2010), a Class 47 for 'The Clansman', a Class 26 with snow plough and the Loco Shed signal box. To the right vans are standing in the freight depot below the gantry lighting for the two Motorail sidings.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/28000/28861.jpg "Inverness")
![Headed by a pair of Class 26 locomotives, a northbound special accelerates away from Inverness's Rose Street curve on a winter's day in the early 1970s.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/29000/29651.jpg "Inverness")
![Rose Street signal box, Inverness, photographed in the early 1970s.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //]](/images/29000/29794.jpg "Inverness")
![New single track replaces the former double track route between Inverness and Nairn, as seen from the front of an Aberdeen bound DMU in the late 1960s.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/30000/30027.jpg "Nairn")
![And not a porter to be seen! Predominantly elderly passengers leaving a recently arrived train from the south at Inverness Platform 1 in the late 1960s.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/31000/31255.jpg "Inverness")
![Shed scene at Inverness in the 1970s, with 5127 nearest the camera.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/31000/31270.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![Pickersgill ex-Caledonian 4-4-0 no 54493 stands in the shed yard at Inverness. A long time regular in the Inverness area [see image 9768] the locomotive was finally withdrawn from here in November 1961 and disposed of at Inverurie Works some 5 months later.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/33000/33458.jpg "Inverness")
![A daily early-morning scene alongside Inverness Parcels Depot in the mid-1970s - parcels and mail off the 04.45 overnight arrival from Glasgow and Edinburgh, now transferred to 'BRUTEs' ready to be loaded into the Macbrayne's lorry bound for the Ullapool-Stornoway ferry.<br>
<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/34000/34331.jpg "Inverness")
![A pair of Black 5s, with 45483 leading, with a train at Inverness in the late 1950s.<br>
<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/35000/35426.jpg "Inverness")
![Kegs of Tennents beer are fork-lifted out of air-braked wagons (with palletised can traffic in the background) in this typical scene at Inverness Freight Depot in the mid-1970s. The beer originated from Wellpark Brewery, just a few hundred yards from Glasgow's High Street Freight Depot, and travelled to Inverness by overnight freight train for local road distribution.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/37000/37317.jpg "Inverness")
![In this 1970s view at Inverness a Class 26 is propelling a train from the north into Platform 3 or 4, while a Class 47 prepares to depart from platform 1 with the Up 'Clansman'. The two sidings to the left were used for Motorail traffic.<br><br>[David Spaven //]](/images/38000/38457.jpg "Inverness")
![An Inverness BRCW Type 2 and ex-banana van parked at Inverness MPD in the late 1960s. Note the tablet catcher mounted on the loco cab side - these remained in operation until the Highland Main Line switched from token working to tokenless block in 1969.<br><br>[David Spaven //]](/images/38000/38873.jpg "Inverness")
![A 1970s view of pipe traffic at Inverness Freight Depot framed by 18th century warehouses, subsequently removed to make way for the relentless local thirst for new retail development. [See image 8756] <br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/39000/39337.jpg "Inverness")
![Welsh's Bridge box, Inverness, in the mid 1970s. The Class 47 is almost certainly off the early evening 'Clansman' arrival from Euston - a much-missed service which was introduced after the 1974 WCML electrification, and then withdrawn in the cost-cutting run-up to rail privatisation.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/41000/41579.jpg "Inverness")
![Triple-headed Type 2s wait to head south from a wet Inverness Platform 4 in the early 1970s. Frank Spaven and his youngest son are to the right of the lighting column. The train is thought to be the 08.20 service to Edinburgh.<br><br>[David Spaven //]](/images/41000/41593.jpg "Inverness")
![An Aberdeen-Inverness DMU drifts past Millburn Yard in the early 1970s.<br><br>[David Spaven //]](/images/41000/41705.jpg "Inverness")
![With two Class 26s in charge, a southbound train heads away from Millburn Junction in the 1970s and is about to pass signs of the new A9 construction works.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //]](/images/45000/45821.jpg "Inverness")
![Nairn West 'boxes in 1977.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //]](/images/55000/55314.jpg "Nairn")
![Journeys end, 61994 & 60009 arrive at Inverness with <I>The Great Britain</I>.<br><br>[John Gray 10/04/07]](/images/14000/14464.jpg "Inverness")
![The owner on his engine. John Cameron on the footplate of <I>Union of South Africa</I> at Inverness with <I>The Great Britain</I>.<br><br>[John Gray 10/04/07]](/images/14000/14465.jpg "Inverness")
![C.R. 4.4.0 54493 at Inverness station on Perth via Forres train. July 1950.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 01/07/1950]](/images/9000/9768.jpg "Inverness")
![The roundhouse. Inverness sheds.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/07/1950]](/images/9000/9216.jpg "Inverness Shed")
![5P 4.6.0 44925 at Inverness on Perth via Forres train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1950]](/images/9000/9214.jpg "Inverness")
![Helmsdale - Inverness train approaching Rose Street Junction past the harbour branch. 5P 4.6.0 45192. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1950]](/images/9000/9215.jpg "Inverness Harbour")
![Photograph taken from a train passing Inverness shed in 1958. The locomotive nearest the camera is Black 5 45124.<br><br>[D Welsh Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] //1958]](/images/52000/52229.jpg "Inverness")
![Grab shot from a train leaving Inverness in 1959, with B1 and Black 5 locomotives visible in the shed yard. <br><br>[D Walker Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] //1959]](/images/52000/52269.jpg "Inverness")
![Drummond 0-4-0ST no 56038, minus wooden tender, comes off the turntable at Inverness in March 1959. The semi-circular open roundhouse closed in 1962 and was demolished the following year. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/03/1959]](/images/22000/22277.jpg "Inverness Shed")
![Caley 0-4-4 tank no 55198 takes on water alongside Inverness Loco signal box shortly before its withdrawal from service in May 1961. [With thanks to Bill Jamieson]<br>
<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1961]](/images/31000/31467.jpg "Inverness")
![Pickersgill ex-Caledonian 4-4-0 no 54466 in the roundhouse at Inverness in 1962, a few months before its withdrawal. [See image 9216].<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1962]](/images/36000/36827.jpg "Inverness Shed")
![The picturesque headboard of <I>'The Orcadian'</I> attached to a type 2 locomotive at Inverness depot in the summer of 1962. This was the name carried by the morning 'boat train' service from Inverness to the far north, timed to connect with the Scrabster - Stromness ferry.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1962]](/images/37000/37483.jpg "Inverness")
![Pickersgill ex-Caledonian 0-4-4T no 55269 photographed at Inverness in 1962, around the time of its withdrawal. The locomotive was eventually cut up at Arnott Young, Troon, in November 1963.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1962]](/images/37000/37508.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![A pair of type 2s on shed at Inverness in 1963 with D5116 on the left.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1963]](/images/28000/28641.jpg "Inverness")
![The preserved Jones Goods with the Caledonian Railway coaches at Inverness in the summer of 1965 as part of celebrations to mark the centenary of the formation of the Highland Railway.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1965]](/images/36000/36890.jpg "Inverness")
![Token exchange at speed between ex-HR<I> Jones Goods</I> 4-6-0 no 103 and the signalman at Dalcross station in the summer of 1965.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1965]](/images/42000/42239.jpg "Dalcross")
![HR 103 waiting to leave Inverness in August 1965 with the two Caley coaches on a return special to Forres. The combination ran a twice daily shuttle between Inverness and Forres throughout that week as part of the celebrations surrounding the Highland Railway centenary. [With thanks to John Robin]<br>
<br><br>[K A Gray /08/1965]](/images/28000/28064.jpg "Inverness")
![HR 103 leaving Inverness in August 1965 with a return special to Forres as part of the Highland Railway centenary celebrations.<br><br>[K A Gray /08/1965]](/images/28000/28413.jpg "Inverness")
![HR 103 stands alongside a rainsoaked platform at Inverness in August 1965 with one of the shuttle specials that ran to and from Forres that week in connection with the Highland Railway centenary celebrations. <br><br>[K A Gray /08/1965]](/images/28000/28996.jpg "Inverness")
![The preserved ex-Highland Railway Jones Goods 4-6-0 no 103 stands in the rain at Inverness in August 1965 with one of the specials run in connection with the Highland Railway centenary celebrations.<br><br>[K A Gray /08/1965]](/images/29000/29784.jpg "Inverness")
![HR 103 receiving attention at Inverness in August 1965 between turns with the <I>Highland Railway Centenary</I> specials. The locomotive ran a twice daily shuttle between Inverness and Forres throughout the week as part of the HR celebrations.<br><br>[K A Gray /08/1965]](/images/30000/30570.jpg "Inverness")
![HR 103 stands at Inverness in August 1965 with the two preserved Caledonian coaches forming a return special to Forres. This was part of the shuttle service operated by the train between Inverness and Forres twice daily throughout that week as part of the Highland Railway centenary celebrations. <br><br>[K A Gray 14/08/1965]](/images/41000/41176.jpg "Inverness")
![D5326+D5332 prepare to leave Inverness for the south in the summer of 1965.<br><br>[John Robin 19/08/1965]](/images/46000/46791.jpg "Inverness")
![A wet day at Inverness station on 24 August 1965 sees ex-Highland Railway Jones Goods no 103 carrying out manoeuvres. The locomotive was involved in the operation of special trains being run at that time in connection with the Highland Railway centenary celebrations.<br><br>[K A Gray 24/08/1965]](/images/45000/45927.jpg "Inverness")
![Ex-HR <I>Jones Goods</I> no 103 prepares to leave Inverness with the 1.35pm special to Perth on 30 August 1965. The locomotive had been operating in the area as part of the Highland Railway Centenary celebrations.<br><br>[K A Gray 30/08/1965]](/images/31000/31883.jpg "Inverness")
![The 'Jones Goods' on one of the Highland Railway centenary celebration trains at Inverness in September 1965. [With thanks to Messrs Dallimore, McEwan, Stuart, Smith & Petrie]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /09/1965]](/images/41000/41908.jpg "Inverness")
![The 1740 train to Kyle of Lochalsh about to depart from Inverness in August 1966.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /08/1966]](/images/26000/26683.jpg "Inverness")
![A BRCW Type 2-hauled train from the north runs round Rose Street Curve in 1967, prior to reversing back into the southbound platforms at Inverness station. The substantial footprint of railway activities in the background includes the carriage cleaning depot and Needlefield Yard, with 'biscuit' containers beside the rail-served shed.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1967]](/images/36000/36843.jpg "Inverness")
![With Millburn Yard and the Black Isle in the background - and the former rail approaches to Inverness Round House in the foreground - a BRC&W Type 2-hauled train from the south slows past Welsh's Bridge box prior to arrival at Inverness station in 1967.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1967]](/images/36000/36990.jpg "Inverness")
![A BRCW Type 2 propels its train back past Welsh's Bridge box into Inverness station in 1967. [See image 36843]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1967]](/images/37000/37442.jpg "Inverness")
![A typical winter 1967-68 Inverness scene taken from Auldcastle (as in 'Macbeth') Road. The area of empty ground to the left of the arriving train, which had been occupied by the steam roundhouse until 1960-61, was subsequently developed as an extension to the cattle auction mart, and is now home to the dubious visual delights of a Morrison's supermarket.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1968]](/images/26000/26932.jpg "Inverness")
![This spring 1968 shot shows just how extensive Inverness carriage sidings then were. A train from the south pulls into the station, passing a train from the north which will in a few minutes propel back into the southbound platforms. On the right is a green-liveried DMU and two wooden 'BD' containers standing at the biscuit warehouse siding.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1968]](/images/39000/39998.jpg "Inverness")
![A Class 26 and a fine array of rolling stock in this spring 1968 view of Welsh's Bridge box in Inverness.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1968]](/images/40000/40985.jpg "Inverness")
![Scottish Grand Tour no 11 headed by D364 pauses at Nairn to <br>
cross the 14.35 Inverness - Aberdeen (single unit leading) on 5th <br>
September 1970 [with thanks to David Spaven]. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 05/09/1970]](/images/28000/28162.jpg "Nairn")
![Crossing at Nairn station on 5th September 1970 with the 14:35 Inverness - Aberdeen at the near platform alongside <I>Scottish Grand Tour no 11</I> heading towards Inverness (with thanks to David Spaven). <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 05/09/1970]](/images/28000/28417.jpg "Nairn")
![<I>Scottish Grand Tour no 11</I> pauses at Nairn on 5 September 1970 with EE Type 4 no D364 in charge. [With thanks to David Spaven].<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 05/11/1970]](/images/28000/28082.jpg "Nairn")
![Handling palletised traffic at Inverness Freight Depot in the summer of 1971. Nothing in this scene survives - the freight depot, the NCL shed to the right, and the historic warehouses in the background - all swept away for yet another Inverness retail development.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1971]](/images/34000/34103.jpg "Inverness")
![A Class 40 shunts the stock of the Newcastle/York <I>Motorail</I> service at Inverness in Summer 1971 - note the 'Pullman' dining coach in the centre of the train.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1971]](/images/40000/40516.jpg "Inverness")
![Welsh's Bridge, Inverness in 1971, with a single-unit railcar centre stage (reason unknown).<br><br>[David Spaven //1971]](/images/42000/42273.jpg "Inverness")
![The photographer's son waves farewell as he heads off for London on the 19.00 'Royal Highlander' from Inverness in summer 1971.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1971]](/images/42000/42298.jpg "Inverness")
!['The Hebridean Express' special from Kyle of Lochalsh to Crewe backs into Inverness station's southbound platforms in September 1971.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /09/1971]](/images/42000/42327.jpg "Inverness")
![An Inverness-Aberdeen DMU accelerates past Welsh's Bridge signal box, shortly after leaving Inverness, in the summer of 1972.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1972]](/images/26000/26607.jpg "Inverness")
![The unusual sight of a locomotive at the buffer stop side of passenger coaches at Platform 5/6 of Inverness station in the summer 1972. Normally trains from the Far North and Kyle ran round the Rose Street curve and propelled their trains into Platforms 1-4. <br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1972]](/images/29000/29848.jpg "Inverness")
![<I>On yer bike!</I> The old order at Nairn in the summer of 1973, as the signalman pedals from the west box back to the token instruments in the station building. Taken from the rear of an Inverness-Aberdeen DMU.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/35000/35503.jpg "Nairn")
![Archetypal scene at Inverness platforms 5 and 6 in summer 1973, with the mid-morning departures for Kyle and Wick/Thurso ready for the road.<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/36000/36237.jpg "Inverness")
![Looking over the Inverness Harbour branch in 1973. [See image 9215]<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1973]](/images/36000/36576.jpg "Inverness Harbour")
![Various locomotives at Inverness depot seen from a passing excursion in 1973, with classes 20, 26 and 24 in evidence.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1973]](/images/37000/37335.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![On a winter's day in early 1973 a northbound double-headed special accelerates out of the Rose Street curve in Inverness. The Harbour Branch is on the left and Platforms 5 and 6 of Inverness Station lie off to the right.<br><br>[David Spaven //1973]](/images/38000/38594.jpg "Rose Street Junction")
![Three Class 24s and a rake of Presflos for Oxwellmains dominate this view of Millburn Yard, Inverness, in Spring 1973.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1973]](/images/41000/41345.jpg "Inverness")
![5327+5343 at the head of a train boarding at Inverness on 09 June 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/11000/11402.jpg "Inverness")
![Passing Inverness shed and Loco SB on 09 June 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/12000/12465.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![Refuelling point at Inverness MPD on 09 June 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/12000/12492.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![Breakdown crane at Inverness Railfair on 09 June 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/12000/12500.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![60009 at the Inverness Railfair on 09 June 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/13000/13588.jpg "Inverness")
![Rail fair, Inverness, June 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/14000/14050.jpg "Inverness")
![Looking back from a southbound train out of Inverness in June 1973 with the carriage sidings to the right and MPD to the left.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/18000/18558.jpg "Inverness")
![Class 24 no 5000 runs over the level crossing within the yard at Rose Street, Inverness in June 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/22000/22012.jpg "Inverness")
![Gresley A4 no 60009 on display at the Inverness Railfair on 09 Jun 73. Also brought in for the event is a Class 303 Glasgow <I>Blue Train</I>. <br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/24000/24134.jpg "Inverness")
![5341 at the head of a service on one of the 'Far North' platforms at Inverness on 09 June 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/24000/24857.jpg "Inverness")
![A pair of BRCW Type 2s, 5327 and 5343, at the head of a southbound service waiting to depart from Inverness late in the afternoon of 9 June 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/27000/27012.jpg "Inverness")
![Ex LNER A4 no 60009 'Union of South Africa' being admired at the Inverness Railfair on 9 June 1973. On the extreme left you can just see part of AC electric loco no 84005 also on display.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/27000/27380.jpg "Inverness")
![With not a wire in sight, one of the ten NBL built class 84 AC electric locomotives, no 84005 (originally AL4 no E3040) poses at the Inverness Railfair on 9 June 1973. In the background stands 3-car Glasgow 'Blue Train' unit 063, likewise some distance from a suitable power supply.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/06/1973]](/images/34000/34188.jpg "Inverness")
![The inaugural <I>Clansman</I> service from London Euston pulls into Platform 2 at Inverness in the summer of 1974, the first day of the summer timetable following completion of WCML electrification. <br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1974]](/images/26000/26942.jpg "Inverness")
![A snow-clad class 20 stands at the western end of Millburn yard, Inverness, in the winter of 1974-75. The hill in the Crown district in the distance - mooted as the possible location of Macbeth's castle - was a popular photography spot until the surrounding vegetation became impenetrable.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/28000/28132.jpg "Inverness")
![The once-ubiquitous old-style wooden BR container (in this case conveying biscuits from the south) standing in the Needlefield warehouse siding, Inverness, in 1974.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/32000/32447.jpg "Inverness")
![Memoirs of a boy racer. View from the Auldcastle Road vantage point, Inverness, in the summer of 1974. The bike is long gone (as is the view due to the spread of vegetation). In this picture a Class 24 is in the process of drawing a train from Kyle round the Rose Street curve, prior to reversal into Inverness station.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/37000/37118.jpg "Inverness")
![Two Strome Ferry-bound Howard Doris shunters await the move west from the Inverness MPD 'triangle' in 1975.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1975]](/images/37000/37394.jpg "Inverness")
![Looking out from the station concourse at Inverness in September 1975. The 08.20 train to Edinburgh, headed by a Class 24 and 26, is poised to depart. With a near 4-hour journey time (via Stirling) this was for many years the fastest service on the Highland Main Line.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /09/1975]](/images/37000/37178.jpg "Inverness")
![An Aberdeen-bound DMU approaches Millburn Junction level crossing in Inverness in 1976. The route leading up to the Highland Main Line on the right was known as the 'Burma Road' due to its wartime military use, and enabled freights from the Aberdeen direction to run directly into Millburn Yard - a move no longer possible.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1976]](/images/27000/27272.jpg "Millburn Junction")
![The private and public sector faces of the rail industry at Inverness in 1976. A Howard Doris shunting locomotive waits to be hauled west to Stromeferry sidings, while a Class 26 stands in the Platform 5 road on the north side of the station, with Lochgorm works in the background.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1976]](/images/28000/28421.jpg "Inverness")
![Rose Street box Inverness - and a venerable engineers wagon sandwich. The two Howard Doris shunters en route to Strome Ferry in 1976.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1976]](/images/37000/37794.jpg "Inverness")
![The usual Type 2s line the north wall of Inverness MPD in 1976, as the two Howard Doris shunters await the final leg of their journey to Strome Ferry sidings.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1976]](/images/38000/38130.jpg "Inverness")
![The ubiquitous yellow Bedford lorry (on hire from NCL) at Inverness Freight Depot in winter 1977. The rail vans have brought sacks of flour from the private siding of a Leith flour mill, for road delivery to Burnett's bakery in Inverness. All the sacks were individually 'hand-balled' from rail to road - tiring and dusty work, as the photographer's son can testify from his 1974-75 stint as a 'Railman' in Inverness.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1977]](/images/34000/34794.jpg "Inverness")
![With Ben Wyvis clad in late spring snow, a Class 47 passes Welsh's Bridge box, Inverness, in 1977 on the last few hundred yards of its journey from the south.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1977]](/images/35000/35051.jpg "Inverness")
![A trip freight from Invergordon (including first generation BR whisky containers) slows into Millburn Yard, Inverness, in 1977.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1977]](/images/37000/37468.jpg "Inverness")
![A very mixed freight shunting Nain goods yard. View west in 1977.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1977]](/images/40000/40189.jpg "Nairn")
![Nairn East 'box in 1977.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/55000/55316.jpg "Nairn")
![A trainload of pipes bound for the cement-coating plant near Invergordon heads north from Inverness in 1978 - the harbour branch and coal yard are to the right, with Ben Wyvis in the far distance.<br><br>[David Spaven //1978]](/images/45000/45809.jpg "Inverness")
![Type 2 diesel locomotives on shed at Inverness on Saturday 15 April 1978. In the picture from left to right are 26018, 25228, 27032, 26013 and 27026. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 15/04/1978]](/images/23000/23711.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![27032 photographed on shed at Inverness in April 1978.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 15/04/1978]](/images/23000/23821.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![40159 (nearest camera) together with an unidentified classmate stabled in Inverness yard on 5 November 1978.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/11/1978]](/images/40000/40525.jpg "Inverness")
![<I>Hmmmm, I wonder..... a genetically modified carrot?... a super-size ice-cream cone?... the fossilised remains of a giant Unicorn?</I> One can only marvel at how BR staff at Inverness managed to get this 'parcel' loaded on to a train in the spring of 1979.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1979]](/images/28000/28096.jpg "Inverness")
![Token exchange at Nairn in 1979.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1979]](/images/35000/35911.jpg "Nairn")
![An eastbound freight photographed entering Nairn station in 1979 behind EE Type 4 no 40159.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1979]](/images/37000/37659.jpg "Nairn")
![Platform view west towards Inverness from Nairn station in 1979.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1979]](/images/40000/40663.jpg "Nairn")
![Inverness shed sidings, 47001 and 47210 both at rest. 04 March 1979.<br><br>[Peter Todd 04/03/1979]](/images/56000/56898.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![Looking east from Longman Road bridge in April 1979 with Rose Street SB on the right. <br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1979]](/images/12000/12480.jpg "Inverness")
![Looking SE towards the station from Longman Road bridge in April 1979. <br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1979]](/images/12000/12482.jpg "Inverness")
![Kyle of Lochalsh empty stock movement at Inverness in 1980. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1980]](/images/18000/18277.jpg "Inverness")
![26015 alongside Rose Street signal box, Inverness, in May 1980<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 06/05/1980]](/images/24000/24661.jpg "Inverness")
![Part of Inverness's rail network in 1981, looking from the old Longman Road bridge, towards the Rose Street signal box.<br><br>[Peter Todd //1981]](/images/39000/39714.jpg "Inverness")
![Millburn Yard plays host to hoppers, oil tanks, pipe wagons, demountable whisky tanks and ballast wagons in 1981.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1981]](/images/41000/41443.jpg "Inverness")
![26043 at Inverness Station on 26 July 1981, having recently arrived with a train from Wick/Thurso.<br><br>[Peter Todd 26/07/1981]](/images/49000/49152.jpg "Inverness")
![40044 stands in Inverness station in October 1981.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/10/1981]](/images/22000/22633.jpg "Inverness")
![With snow ploughs front and rear, two Class 26s slowly approach Inverness MPD on 6 January 1982, following snow clearance duties on the Highland Main Line.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 06/01/1982]](/images/35000/35180.jpg "Inverness")
![A snowplough train returning from Slochd edges behind Welsh's Bridge box at Inverness on 6th January 1982.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 06/01/1982]](/images/39000/39221.jpg "Inverness")
![Scene at Inverness shed on 27 March 1982, with 27102 partially in shot on the left, 27203 in the centre and an unidentified class 47 peeping out from behind the shed wall in the right background.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 27/03/1982]](/images/19000/19738.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![Lineup of type 2s at Inverness depot on 27 March 1982.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 27/03/1982]](/images/21000/21213.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![26038 and 26045 stabled at Inverness MPD on 10 May 1982.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 10/05/1982]](/images/22000/22494.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![37039 on the move through the yards at Inverness in May 1982.<br><br>[Peter Todd 10/05/1982]](/images/49000/49297.jpg "Inverness")
![LMS 5025 with Kyle train at Inverness.<br><br>[John Robin 25/09/1982]](/images/6000/6906.jpg "Inverness")
![The Scottish Steam Railtours Group <I>Raven's Rock Express</I> stands at Inverness on 25 September 1982. LMS 5025 is preparing to take the special to Kyle of Lochalsh<br><br>[John Robin 25/09/1982]](/images/49000/49359.jpg "Inverness")
![27025 in the Inverness station sidings (the goods just south of the station, now a Morrison's Supermarket). 25 September 1982.<br><br>[Peter Todd 25/09/1982]](/images/53000/53341.jpg "Inverness")
![26026 on the right, 37260 on the left and in the middle 37033 with split headcode panels. Before blue livery.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/1983]](/images/12000/12283.jpg "Inverness")
![47 526 stands at the head of a train at Inverness in May 1983.<br><br>[David Panton /05/1983]](/images/18000/18040.jpg "Inverness")
![27004 stands at Inverness in June 1984.<br><br>[David Panton /06/1984]](/images/17000/17987.jpg "Inverness")
![For a number of years in the 1980s a through container wagon from Aberdeen Freightliner Terminal was attached to passenger trains between Aberdeen, Inverness and a customer in Thurso. The container is seen here on its way back to Aberdeen as part of the 12.35 mixed train from Inverness on 19th September 1984.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 19/09/1984]](/images/32000/32743.jpg "Inverness")
![26024 again, this time lying up between turns behind Inverness depot. did this beast ever bear a stag?<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1985]](/images/10000/10990.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![<I>The Clansman</I> ready for the off at Inverness in March 1982. The locomotive is 47540 (CD).<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/1985]](/images/10000/10865.jpg "Inverness")
![A pair of class 20s, with 20225 nearest the camera, photographed in the sidings at Inverness station on 2 August 1985.<br><br>[Peter Todd 02/08/1985]](/images/39000/39633.jpg "Inverness")
![26028 stabled alongside Inverness MPD on 2 August 1985.<br><br>[Peter Todd 02/08/1985]](/images/40000/40678.jpg "Inverness")
![East end departure from Nairn.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1986]](/images/11000/11157.jpg "Nairn")
![Approaching Inverness 1986.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1986]](/images/15000/15401.jpg "Inverness")
![Passing Inverness shed in 1986.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1986]](/images/15000/15441.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![A well-loaded Speedlink service heads south from Inverness in early February 1986, conveying 5 HEAs of imported coal from Invergordon, 8 Scottish Malt Distillers empty barley hoppers, several empty LPG tankers, empty coal containers ...and a partridge etc.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /02/1986]](/images/40000/40841.jpg "Inverness")
![Welshs Bridge sb, Inverness, in 1987. <br><br>[Roy Lambeth //1987]](/images/13000/13517.jpg "Inverness")
![Station Frame. Allowing trains to access platform 4 from north and south.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1988]](/images/12000/12359.jpg "Inverness")
![47550 eastbound through Nairn station in May 1988 with a single ferry wagon. The working is thought to be a late running consignment of either fruit (apples) or bagged dry goods from Germany which missed its slot on a Mossend - Aberdeen freight and had been rerouted via Inverness to minimise the delay. [With thanks to David Spaven, Kevin McCallum and Nigel Wunsch]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford Collection 06/05/1988]](/images/48000/48459.jpg "Nairn")
![An 08 shunts in Millburn Yard. Viewed from Glasgow-Inverness train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/8000/8744.jpg "Millburn Yard")
![Barrows & passengers. They dont mix. The Last Clansman. Preparations.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1989]](/images/12000/12305.jpg "Inverness")
![The now swept away goods yard at Inverness. By this time the southern loading banks were in use as a carpark, the shed was in use as a Lynx truck depot and the northern sidings in use for timber.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16324.jpg "Inverness")
![The approach to Ness Viaduct (buffers on both left hand lines) and the stub of the harbour branch in use as a coal depot in 1989. The sidings later came into use for Safeway container trains.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/16000/16325.jpg "Inverness Harbour")
![Inverness looking east from the station. A 47 and 37 outside the locomotive works and a 125 in the carriages area.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8842.jpg "Inverness")
![Inverness before Sprinter took over ...<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8880.jpg "Inverness")
![Platform 1 at Inverness.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8881.jpg "Inverness")
![The Far North platforms at Inverness.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8882.jpg "Inverness")
![37 by the former locomotive works at Lochgorm. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8883.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![37 in the locomotive works at Lochgorm. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8884.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![47470 awaiting reparis in the locomotive works at Lochgorm. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8885.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![A 47 by the Lochgorm locomotive works. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8886.jpg "Inverness")
![The circulating area in Inverness station. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8887.jpg "Inverness")
![37s ready with the first trains of the day to Thurso & Wick and Kyle of Lochalsh. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/01/1989]](/images/8000/8888.jpg "Inverness")
![A 47 (and driver) relax before heading south from Inverness on a Glasgow service.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 04/01/1989]](/images/9000/9039.jpg "Inverness")
![Arriving at Inverness in August 1989.<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/08/1989]](/images/12000/12681.jpg "Inverness")
![The station pilot approaches the rear of a train that has just arrived at Inverness from the south in August 1989.<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/08/1989]](/images/18000/18876.jpg "Inverness")
![Scene at Inverness on a warm Summers evening on 15 August 1989 as class 47 locomotive 47578 <I>The Royal Society of Edinburgh</I> stands at the head of the London Sleeper.<br><br>[John McIntyre 15/08/1989]](/images/19000/19184.jpg "Inverness")
![47546 arriving from Inverness<br><br>[Brian Forbes /11/1989]](/images/11000/11116.jpg "Nairn")
![An Aberdeen - Inverness train at Nairn in 1990. In the background a class 37 hauled freight is held until the signalman completes his cycle journey from the east box to the west box.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/42000/42705.jpg "Nairn")
![An Aberdeen bound 47 hauled train approaches Raigmore level crossing east of Millburn Junction in 1990. The remains of the 'Burma Road' are to the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/53000/53377.jpg "Millburn Junction")
![The interior of Nairn West box seen in 1990. The loading bank can be seen through the windows.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/54000/54096.jpg "Nairn")
![A 47 enters Nairn with an Inverness train in 1990. The signalman waits to take the token and to the left, by the east box, is his bicycle to take him to the west box. The bicycle wasn't always used - the very next day it wasn't. A puncture perhaps!<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/54000/54100.jpg "Nairn")
!['The Nairn Biker'. The signalman cycles from the West 'box to the East to set the road for an approaching train, the token equipment being located in the station building. This practice ceased in 2000.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1992]](/images/55000/55315.jpg "Nairn")
![Inverness Loco Box. Although named after the TMD behind, it did not mechanically have anything to do with it. Five local cabins were removed when the new SC opened.(anyone got that date?)<br><br>[Brian Forbes /11/1992]](/images/10000/10741.jpg "Inverness")
![A Class 47 in Rail Express Services livery eases a northbound tank train round the Rose Street curve in Inverness. The Tiphook freight wagon is part of an exhibition on Platform 1 to mark the occasion of the April 1997 Rail Freight Group conference in Inverness.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven /04/1997]](/images/34000/34515.jpg "Inverness")
![Classes 08, 66 and 37, with Safeway wagons to the fore, at the east end of Millburn Yard, Inverness, in 1999.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1999]](/images/35000/35764.jpg "Inverness")
![A Class 66 shunts Safeway traffic in the former coal yard at Inverness in 1999. The siding which formerly ran through to the harbour is on the extreme left. [See image 16325]<br><br>[David Spaven //1999]](/images/36000/36565.jpg "Inverness Harbour")
![On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Sutherland Railway let's look back to 1999. Councillor Alison Magee with Alastair McPherson are seen during the naming of 158707 as 'Far North Line - 125th Anniversary' at Inverness on the 28th of July 1999 (the Far North line was completed to Thurso and Wick in 1874).<br><br>[John Yellowlees 28/07/1999]](/images/63000/63572.jpg "Inverness")
![The eastern platforms at Inverness in 2000 with 158 740 and 158 719 forming Edinburgh and Aberdeen services.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //2000]](/images/62000/62410.jpg "Inverness")
![An EWS Class 66 passes Inverness Depot with the Safeway intermodal service from Georgemas Junction in 2000. A DRS-operated train for Tesco is now being mooted.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //2000]](/images/62000/62421.jpg "Inverness")
![A member of the footplate crew of B1 61264 about to collect the token from the signal lady at Nairn in 2000. The goods shed on the upper left has since been dismantled and moved to Bridge of Dun.<br><br>[John Gray /09/2000]](/images/9000/9329.jpg "Nairn")
![08 with sleeper stock at Inverness in the Far North platforms during February of 2002. In the background is the Eastgate development, partly on the site of the goods yard.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /02/2002]](/images/53000/53572.jpg "Inverness")
![An Edinburgh train prepares to leave Inverness in May 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/05/2002]](/images/2000/2893.jpg "Inverness")
![EWS 67027 stands at Inverness in May 2002 having worked in on the Sleeper.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/05/2002]](/images/4000/4790.jpg "Inverness")
![Looking out along platform 2 at Inverness station in May 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/05/2002]](/images/4000/4792.jpg "Inverness")
![Lever frame - Inverness station - May 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/05/2002]](/images/5000/5570.jpg "Inverness")
![Looking back towards the concourse at Inverness in May 2002, with the London sleeper docked on the left and trains to Edinburgh (centre) and the far north line in the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/05/2002]](/images/5000/5571.jpg "Inverness")
![B1 61264 with a special for Aberdeen passes through Nairn in 2002.<br><br>[John Gray /10/2002]](/images/13000/13348.jpg "Nairn")
![Eastern station throat at Inverness. In the background is the out of use carriage shed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2004]](/images/9000/9057.jpg "Inverness")
![08788 is one of Invernesss Station pilots.<br><br>[John Gray 02/04/2005]](/images/3000/3569.jpg "Millburn Yard")
![67008 at Inverness.<br><br>[John Gray 02/04/2005]](/images/3000/3571.jpg "Millburn Yard")
![37418 East Lancashire Railway at rest in Inverness Yard.<br><br>[John Gray 02/04/2005]](/images/3000/3573.jpg "Millburn Yard")
![Snowplough at Inverness.<br><br>[John Gray 02/04/2005]](/images/3000/3576.jpg "Millburn Yard")
![An Aberdeen - Inverness train calls at Nairn on a bright Autumn day in October 2005. The line in the foreground served the former goods yard [see image 40189].<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/10/2005]](/images/6000/6160.jpg "Nairn")
![The closed signal box at Nairn West on 31 October 2005, photographed from the opposite platform.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/10/2005]](/images/54000/54095.jpg "Nairn")
![Nice day at Nairn. The northside entrance to the 1855 Nairn station off Cawdor Street, seen here on a bright and sunny October day in 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/10/2005]](/images/54000/54322.jpg "Nairn")
![Platform 2 at Nairn on a sunny November day in 2005. View is east towards the station footbridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/11/2005]](/images/59000/59620.jpg "Nairn")
![A delightful small Highland Railway station building at Nairn in 2005. This building is to be found hard beside the footbridge on the Inverness bound platform. The waiting room, also in timber, is off to the right. (The main station building is on the Aberdeen bound platform.)<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/11/2005]](/images/60000/60250.jpg "Nairn")
![The elegant main station building at Nairn in November 2005, looking east towards Forres.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/11/2005]](/images/61000/61276.jpg "Nairn")
![Mary Dickson, Managing Director of First ScotRail.<br><br>[Phil Downie / First ScotRail 9/7/2005]](/images/4000/4794.jpg "Nairn")
![Her grace the Countess of Seafield.<br><br>[Phil Downie / First ScotRail 9/7/2005]](/images/4000/4795.jpg "Nairn")
![Tom Coombs.<br><br>[Phil Downie / First ScotRail 9/7/2005]](/images/4000/4796.jpg "Nairn")
![Selection of people in Victorian Dress.<br><br>[Phil Downie / First ScotRail 9/7/2005]](/images/4000/4797.jpg "Nairn")
![Mary Dickson with Train Name Plate.<br><br>[Phil Downie / First ScotRail 9/7/2005]](/images/4000/4798.jpg "Nairn")
![Stanier 8F 48151 at Inverness having arrived with a <I>The Great Britain</I> special. It is due to take a train north during the Easter Holidays.<br><br>[John Gray 19/03/2007]](/images/14000/14086.jpg "Inverness")
![The signal box at the east end of Nairn station in March 2007.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/03/2007]](/images/5000/5686.jpg "Nairn")
![158705 approaching Nairn with a service for Inverness.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14552.jpg "Nairn")
![Nairn station buildings from the car park.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14557.jpg "Nairn")
![158705 stopping at Nairn with a service for Inverness.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14558.jpg "Nairn")
![Nairn station buildings from the Inverness platform.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14559.jpg "Nairn")
![Looking east at Nairn from the overbridge at the station.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14560.jpg "Nairn")
![Looking west from the overbridge at Nairn, 158705 in the distance. Also in shot is the overgrown sidings and the signal box at the west side of the station.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14561.jpg "Nairn")
![The former waiting rooms on the Aberdeen bound platform. The building to the right is now a florists!<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14562.jpg "Nairn")
![View at Nairn station showing the now overgrown sidings.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14563.jpg "Nairn")
![158705 at Nairn with passengers boarding for Inverness.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14566.jpg "Nairn")
![60009 also made ready with both locos simmering quietly.<br><br>[John Gray 13/04/2007]](/images/14000/14545.jpg "Inverness")
![61994 on Friday evening 13 April with the stock of <I>The Great Britain</I> ready for an early start.<br><br>[John Gray 13/04/2007]](/images/14000/14546.jpg "Inverness")
![67009 is about to depart with the Inverness portion of the Caledonian Sleeper.<br><br>[John Gray 18/06/2007]](/images/15000/15522.jpg "Inverness")
![A busy evening at Inverness. L to R 170406 ready to leave for Glasgow. 158714 is going to Aberdeen. 170394 has just arrived and is masking 158719. Behind the photographer is the Caledonian Sleeper hauled by 67009.<br><br>[John Gray 08/07/2007]](/images/15000/15753.jpg "Inverness")
![Platform 6 at Inverness. This has been shortened. The starting signal now protects a ramp for pedestrian access to the new staff buildings.<br>
Thanks to John Gray for the opposing view.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/16000/16939.jpg "Inverness")
![Refurbished 158701 arrives at Inverness Platform 6 with an <I>Invernet</I> service.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/09/2007]](/images/16000/16688.jpg "Inverness")
![A class 40 has finally reached Inverness station after many years (although this loco passed through the city on the Rose Street Curve earlier in June 2007). 40145 <I>East Lancashire Railway</I> powers off. The 22 September SRPS railtour 9 carriage train with supporting 47787 has arrived in the Highland Capital 25 minutes early.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/09/2007]](/images/16000/16707.jpg "Inverness")
![40145 <I>East Lancashire Railway</I> sits in Platform 1 at Inverness, with the former Lochgorm Locomotive Works of the Highland Railway on the right.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/09/2007]](/images/16000/16715.jpg "Inverness")
![170404 has just arrived with a service from Aberdeen.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/09/2007]](/images/16000/16864.jpg "Inverness")
![SRPS tour 22nd September, 2007. Locomotive 40145 has run round 1Z40 at Millburn Yard and is ready to depart platform 1 at Inverness for the return to Aberdeen & Linlithgow as 1Z42. This movement was complicated because the rear engine 47.787 had to be similarly dealt with.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/09/2007]](/images/17000/17354.jpg "Inverness")
![158s and 170s await their next turns at Inverness on an October afternoon in 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /10/2007]](/images/16000/16852.jpg "Inverness")
![Scene at Inverness in October 2007 showing the buildings now occupying the station V. Nearest is the signalling centre with the operations suite alongside.<br><br>[Brian Forbes ../10/2007]](/images/16000/16845.jpg "Inverness")
![A general view of Inverness. On the right are the far north platforms with 158 778 heading a four car train. In the foreground is the rusted track of the former harbour branch which now ends in two sidings. On the left stands the carriage shed. Centre left is the re-roofed Lochgorm Works and in the right background the main station building.<br><br>[John Gray 20/10/2007]](/images/16000/16936.jpg "Inverness")
![The First Class interior of recently refurbished ScotRail unit 158722 standing in Inverness station on 20 November 2007.<br><br>[John Gray 20/11/2007]](/images/17000/17243.jpg "Inverness")
![Standard class seating in 158 722, one of the refurbished First ScotRail units now operating out of Inverness, primarily on the far north line.<br><br>[John Gray 20/11/2007]](/images/17000/17262.jpg "Inverness")
![40145 arrives at Inverness with SRPS tour.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/9/2007]](/images/16000/16684.jpg "Inverness")
![WCRC 47 787 at the rear of 1Z42, 1540 Inverness to Linlithgow via Aberdeen. The locomotive is on its first revenue earning outing after overhaul. It was not needed for traction but provided train heating.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/9/2007]](/images/16000/16703.jpg "Inverness")
![The Highland Sleeper does not run on a saturday evening. Here it is protruding from Inverness Depot.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 22/9/2007]](/images/16000/16710.jpg "Inverness")
![37 411 <I>Caerphilly Castle</I> at Inverness on standby for snowplough duties on 3 January 2008.<br><br>[John Gray 03/01/2008]](/images/17000/17626.jpg "Inverness")
![The reason why 37 248 is currently in Inverness.<br><br>[John Gray 15/03/2008]](/images/18000/18338.jpg "Inverness")
![67 011 stands in Millburn Yard, Inverness, on 15 March 2008 alongside 37 422.<br><br>[John Gray 15/03/2008]](/images/18000/18340.jpg "Inverness")
![West Coast Railways 37 248 <I>Loch Arkaig</I> at Inverness Station on 15 March.<br><br>[John Gray 15/03/2008]](/images/18000/18343.jpg "Inverness")
![37 422 <I>Cardiff Canton</I> pictured in Millburn Yard, Inverness, on 21 March where it is on standby for snowplough duties. Meantime, the locomotive has been operating between Elgin and Laurencekirk with seed potato traffic ultimately destined for Ely, Cambridgeshire.<br><br>[John Gray 21/03/2008]](/images/18000/18406.jpg "Inverness")
![EWS 66107 is seen arriving in Millburn Yard, Inverness, on 16 June 2008 with a train of ballast hoppers.<br><br>[John Gray 16/06/2008]](/images/19000/19478.jpg "Inverness")
![170395, 158713 & 158717 stand at Inverness ready for their next turn of duty on 1st August.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 01/08/2008]](/images/20000/20240.jpg "Inverness")
![08788 standing in the yard at Inverness Depot on 1st August<br><br>[Graham Morgan 01/08/2008]](/images/20000/20242.jpg "Inverness")
![A sleeping car sitting at Inverness Depot on 1st August being readied for use on the Highland Sleeper later that evening.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 01/08/2008]](/images/20000/20248.jpg "Inverness")
![158721 at Inverness on 6 August awaiting its next turn of duty<br><br>[Graham Morgan 06/08/2008]](/images/20000/20404.jpg "Inverness")
![This plaque was brought from a viaduct over the Spey at Dalvey and commemorates the completion of the line between Nairn and Keith, completing the link to London from Inverness. The plaque is now displayed at Inverness station.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 06/08/2008]](/images/20000/20407.jpg "Inverness")
![This plaque was brought from a viaduct over the Spey at Dalvey and commemorates the completion of the line between Nairn and Keith, showing the names of the directors of the Inverness & Aberdeen Junction Railway. The plaque is now displayed at Inverness station.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 06/08/2008]](/images/20000/20408.jpg "Inverness")
![It looks like the end of the line for the Inverness Carriage Cleaning Sheds as they have been fenced off and all the track has been lifted.<br><br>[John Gray 16/08/2008]](/images/20000/20277.jpg "Inverness")
![Leaving Millburn Yard for Aviemore in October 2008, with the bridge sections that will eventually span the River Dulnain. <br><br>[Mick Golightly 03/10/2008]](/images/20000/20970.jpg "Millburn Yard")
![Demolition of the old carriage cleaning sheds is now complete. A more permanent fence is in place and landscaping of the site is in progress. Track has been relaid and there are three sidings visible inside the fence.<br><br>[John Gray 05/10/2008]](/images/20000/20905.jpg "Inverness")
![The old carriage cleaning sidings at Inverness have been replaced with this container handling facility. Stobart Rail delivers containers for Tesco here every day except Sunday. 66411 in Stobart Rail livery has brought in the train on 6 December.<br><br>[John Gray 06/12/2008]](/images/21000/21697.jpg "Inverness")
![DRS 66433 departs Inverness with containers for Grangemouth on Chrismas Eve 2008 passing 67011 standing in the background.<br><br>[John Gray 24/12/2008]](/images/21000/21876.jpg "Inverness")
![First ScotRail Class 158 units line up at the buffers inside Inverness station. From left to right they are 158741, 731 and 702. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/03/2009]](/images/23000/23070.jpg "Inverness")
![Motive power line up under the trainshed at Inverness in March 2009 comprising (L to R) 158702, 158731 and 158741. On the far left 170403 can partly be seen having arrived from Glasgow. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/03/2009]](/images/23000/23149.jpg "Inverness")
![Three engines in steam at Inverness on 12 April. 61994 to the left, 45407 and 45231 to the right.<br><br>[John Gray 12/04/2009]](/images/23000/23242.jpg "Inverness")
![61994 with its support coach leaves Inverness for Thornton on 12 April having undertaken GB2 duties the previous day.<br><br>[John Gray 12/04/2009]](/images/23000/23243.jpg "Inverness")
![45407 and 45231 reverse the ECS of <I>Great Britain II</I> into Inverness Station. 45407 has a floral wreath on the smokebox, presumably for Easter Sunday. 67011 can't compete and sits in the huff in the background.<br><br>[John Gray 12/04/2009]](/images/23000/23245.jpg "Inverness")
![DR 77001-Plasser & Theurer AFM 2000 Track finishing machine at Inverness on 17 September 2009<br><br>[John Gray 17/09/2009]](/images/25000/25449.jpg "Inverness")
![An evening service heads east towards Castle Stuart Platform. Poor weather has the hills behind disappear to the left hand side. Also to the left is the ever busy A96.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 30/09/2009]](/images/25000/25824.jpg "Castle Stuart Platform")
![An Aberdeen - Inverness service passes Norbord Highland's factory at Dalcross in September 2009. This factory was rail served with the siding being west of the former station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 30/09/2009]](/images/26000/26278.jpg "Dalcross")
![The section of Highland House, Inverness, damaged as a result of a fire on 28 October 2009.<br><br>[John Gray 31/10/2009]](/images/3000/3695.jpg "Inverness")
![Highland House, Longman Road, Inverness, the office building used by Network Rail where a suspicious fire broke out on 28 October 2009. See news item. <br>
<br><br>[John Gray 31/10/2009]](/images/26000/26082.jpg "Inverness")
![Class 37s are a rare sight in Inverness these days, but here we have 37425 <I>Pride of the Valleys/Balchder y Cymoedd</I> in BR blue <I>large logo</I> livery, seen at the stabling point in Millburn Yard, Inverness on 17 December, standing alongside EWS 67011.<br><br>[John Gray 17/12/2009]](/images/26000/26830.jpg "Inverness")
![Inverness Station on New Year's Day 2010 with a train in every platform and not a soul to be seen. 158724 is on the extreme right.<br><br>[John Gray 01/01/2010]](/images/27000/27013.jpg "Inverness")
![The ends of the east facing platforms at Inverness viewed over the Needlefield Container Depot on New Year's Day 2010. In the foreground, inside the depot, is DRS 37423 <I>Spirit of the Lakes</I> resting between snowplough duties, while an East Coast liveried 125 unit stands in the background.<br><br>[John Gray 01/01/2010]](/images/27000/27018.jpg "Inverness")
![66048 stands on a low-loader at Inverness depot on 3 March 2010 following recovery from the Carrbridge crash site. <br><br>[Keir Hardie 03/03/2010]](/images/1000/1225.jpg "Inverness")
![66048 at Inverness depot on 3 March following arrival from Carrbridge on a low-loader. Photographed looking east from Longman Road with Stobart containers being trans-shipped in the background.<br><br>[Keir Hardie 03/03/2010]](/images/3000/3699.jpg "Inverness")
![Damaged class 66 locomotive no 66048 on a low loader at Inverness where it will be partially stripped down before being taken to Derby for further attention.<br><br>[Keir Hardie 03/03/2010]](/images/5000/5340.jpg "Inverness")
![No snow to be seen on 11 December as EWS-liveried 66140 indulges in a bit of shunting in Millburn Yard, Inverness, before heading south with the Stobart Rail containers.<br>
<br><br>[John Gray 11/12/2010]](/images/31000/31878.jpg "Inverness")
![Services crossing at Nairn on the afternoon of 300611. 158702 on the left is heading for Inverness while 158719 is bound for Aberdeen. View east towards Forres.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/06/2011]](/images/34000/34690.jpg "Nairn")
![Nairn, looking towards Inverness in June 2011, as 158701 approaches on an Aberdeen service. The <I>norm</I> is reversed at Nairn in that the right hand (bi-directional) platform is used for all trains to Inverness and also those to Aberdeen that aren't crossing another service here. The left hand platform can only be used by Aberdeen bound trains. The buildings on both sides are used by a variety of local businesses, as well as housing the ticket office and signalling centre. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/06/2011]](/images/35000/35076.jpg "Nairn")
![The former Dalcross station, between Inverness and Nairn, viewed from the north side of the level crossing in July 2011. The station closed in 1965 and like a number of others on this line is now a private residence. If a new station opens for Inverness Airport as proposed it will be sited to the east of here.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/07/2011]](/images/34000/34704.jpg "Dalcross")
![An early morning Aberdeen to Inverness service runs through Gollanfield. 158706 is passing the overgrown trackbed of the short Fort George branch, which left the mainline here but closed in 1958. The trackbed is heavily overgrown at this point but the branch formation runs on an embankment and is clearly visible for most of its length.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/07/2011]](/images/34000/34727.jpg "Gollanfield")
![Originally named Culloden, until the direct line to Aviemore opened in 1898, Allanfearn was the first station out of Inverness on the line to Nairn. It closed in 1965 and like most others on the line is now a private residence. Early morning view towards Nairn from the level crossing.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/07/2011]](/images/34000/34792.jpg "Allanfearn")
![Early morning view looking east towards Nairn from the overbridge at Gollanfield. The old station, once the junction for Fort George, is the more distant of the two buildings alongside the track. Although it closed in 1965 it is still in residential use. For the view west from the same overbridge [See image 34727]. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/07/2011]](/images/35000/35703.jpg "Gollanfield")
![Inverness Station from the shortened Platform 7 on 9 August 2011.<br>
<br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/08/2011]](/images/35000/35199.jpg "Inverness")
![Tornado at Inverness on The Cathedral Explorer in May 2012.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/05/2012]](/images/38000/38926.jpg "Inverness")
![The view west from Nairn station footbridge as a pair of Class 158s leave for Inverness with an evening service from Aberdeen. The disused signalboxes survive at each end of the platform but the signaller now works from an office in the main station building. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 03/07/2012]](/images/39000/39791.jpg "Nairn")
![08788 stabled in Inverness Yard on 20 April 2013, with Stobart/Tesco containers much in evidence. View is east from Longman Road bridge.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/04/2013]](/images/42000/42801.jpg "Inverness")
![View west from Longman Road bridge along the Far North line on 20 April, with the disused stump of the harbour branch on the right. [See image 36576]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/04/2013]](/images/42000/42812.jpg "Inverness Harbour")
![158702 <I>BBC Scotland 75 years</I> brings up the rear of the 19.58 to Elgin, at Inverness on 20 April.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/04/2013]](/images/42000/42859.jpg "Inverness")
![Privately owned class 08 shunter 08788 propels Caledonian Sleeper stock into sidings by Inverness Station on 24 June. View from Millburn Road along the entrance road to the Wm Morrison superstore.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 24/06/2013]](/images/43000/43691.jpg "Inverness")
![158703 stabled outside Inverness Depot on 24 June amidst much activity in the adjacent Stobart Rail facility as Tesco containers are unloaded.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 24/06/2013]](/images/44000/44018.jpg "Inverness MPD")
![The main entrance to Inverness Station, facing onto Station Square, just off Academy Street, on 19 November 2014. The Royal Highland Hotel (formerly The Station Hotel) stands alongside on the right.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 19/11/2014]](/images/49000/49505.jpg "Inverness")
![Looking across the concourse at Inverness on 19 November 2014. The train waiting to depart from platform 6 is the 12.17 local service to Dingwall. The 32 minute journey includes stops at Beauly, Muir of Ord and Conon Bridge.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 19/11/2014]](/images/49000/49514.jpg "Inverness")
![The Inverness <I>Caledonian Sleeper</I> Guest Centre - June 2015.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 19/06/2015]](/images/51000/51710.jpg "Inverness")
![A Freightliner Heavy Haul service of cement empties prepares to depart for Oxwellmains from an increasingly weed-encroached Millburn Yard in Inverness on 28th August 2015.<br><br>[David Spaven 28/08/2015]](/images/52000/52443.jpg "Millburn Yard")
![Freightliner Heavy Haul services from Oxwellmains to Aberdeen and Inverness now convey – thanks to award of Freight Facilities Grant – bogie vans of bagged cement which formerly moved by road. Both hopper wagons and vans can be seen in this shot of the Lafarge cement terminal deep in Millburn Yard, Inverness on 28th August 2015.<br><br>[David Spaven 28/08/2015]](/images/52000/52453.jpg "Millburn Yard")
![GB Railfreight 66746, in its new livery for operating the <I>Royal Scotsman</I> tours, leads the train away from Nairn on 19 April 2016, with 66736 <I>Wolverhampton Wanderers</I> bringing up the rear.<br><br>[John Gray 19/04/2016]](/images/54000/54943.jpg "Nairn")
![Serco operated 67010 at Inverness platform 2 at 0830 on a fine Saturday 14 May 2016, shortly after arrival with the Inverness portion of the Caledonian Sleeper from London Euston.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 14/05/2016]](/images/55000/55091.jpg "Inverness")
![An Ardgay bound commuter train leaves Inverness.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 17/06/2016]](/images/55000/55546.jpg "Inverness")
![When was a pair of Class 20s last at Inverness?<br><br>[John Yellowlees 10/09/2016]](/images/56000/56474.jpg "Inverness")
![A late running Euston to Inverness sleeper service arrives behind 66732 and 73967. The class 66 locos appear regularly on this service, with the role of the class 73 seemingly delegated to train heating duties. ETHEL II perhaps?<br><br>[Clive Meredith 10/10/2016]](/images/56000/56770.jpg "Inverness")
![158709 and 710 awaiting instructions from the fat controller for their next journeys at Inverness on 01/11/2016.<br><br>[Brian Smith 01/11/2016]](/images/57000/57793.jpg "Inverness")
![A barrel train on the platform at Inverness station with two much larger friends on either side.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 18/08/2017]](/images/62000/62381.jpg "Inverness")
![170416, devoid of branding, on arrival at Inverness at 1027 having formed the<br>
0710 from Glasgow Queen Street. According to one of the rail forums 170416<br>
collided with a large bull near Nairn back in October 2016. It then may have<br>
suffered further damage in a collision at the Broxden Roundabout while being<br>
taken by road for repairs, first at Shields and then at Kilmarnock. [See image 30516]<br>
for a view of the unit in First livery.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Douglas Blades 22/11/2017]](/images/62000/62005.jpg "Inverness")
![67007 at Platform 1 in Inverness, after its 186 minute late arrival with the Caledonian Sleeper on 6th January 2018.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/01/2018]](/images/62000/62477.jpg "Inverness")
![Contrast in front ends at Inverness in January 2018.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/01/2018]](/images/62000/62487.jpg "Inverness")
![Busy scene viewed from Longman Road. 67007 sits with the Caledonian Sleeper stock while 08523 fusses about on the other end. 37603 and 37218 are parked awaiting winter duties while a DRS 66 shunts Tesco/Stobart containers in the background. 6th January 2018.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/01/2018]](/images/62000/62493.jpg "Inverness")
![Staff discussion at Inverness as 08523 waits to remove the sleeper stock from the platform. 30th January 2018. <br><br>[David Prescott 30/01/2018]](/images/62000/62721.jpg "Inverness")
![DB Class 67, newly arrived in Inverness station with the Caledonian Sleeper service on 30th January 2018. <br><br>[David Prescott 30/01/2018]](/images/62000/62767.jpg "Inverness")
![Resident Inverness shunter 08523, seen with Caledonian Sleeper stock at Inverness on 30th January 2018. <br><br>[David Prescott 30/01/2018]](/images/62000/62794.jpg "Inverness")
![37259 departs Inverness for Inverurie with the Pathfinder <I>Easter Chieftain</I> four day railtour on 1st April 2018. 37605 was on the rear.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[John Gray 01/04/2018]](/images/63000/63563.jpg "Inverness")
