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Carrbridge
All photographs of this location in date order.
![Class 47 hauled passenger train heading north through Carrbridge station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/587.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Carrbridge Station looking north.<BR/><br><br>[John Gray //]](/images/1000/1149.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Carrbridge Station Building.The extended large windowed bay on the left was the signal cabin.<br><br>[John Gray //]](/images/1000/1150.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Preserved ex-Highland Railway Jones Goods no 103 is developing a noticeable hot spot on its smokebox door as it waits at Carrbridge station with a special on 21 August 1965.<br><br>[John Robin 21/08/1965]](/images/6000/6926.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Jones Goods waits for the late running Edinburgh train to cross at Carrbridge in 1965.<br><br>[John Robin 21/08/1965]](/images/6000/6927.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Interior of the signalbox at Carrbridge in 1973.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1973]](/images/36000/36250.jpg "Carrbridge")
![A pair of class 24s heading south through Carrbridge station in 1973. The signal box was located in the far bay window.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1973]](/images/36000/36251.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Platform view north at Carrbridge in 1979, with a fine selection of barrows and trolleys on display.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1979]](/images/32000/32570.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Scene on Carrbridge viaduct in April 1979 showing 40142 having just left Carrbridge station with a train for Inverness.<br><br>[John McIntyre 21/04/1979]](/images/20000/20730.jpg "Carrbridge")
![40065 calls at Carrbridge with a southbound train from Inverness on a snowy 22 March 1980.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/03/1980]](/images/24000/24728.jpg "Carrbridge")
![40117 brings a southbound train into Carrbridge on 6 August 1980.<br><br>[Peter Todd 06/08/1980]](/images/37000/37678.jpg "Carrbridge")
![A class 27 arrives at Carrbridge station with a train from Inverness in the early spring of 1981.<br><br>[John Williamson /03/1981]](/images/21000/21320.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Carrbridge south box viewed from a northbound train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/8000/8737.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Carrbridge station building viewed from a northbound train. The projecting part of the building was the north box.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/8000/8738.jpg "Carrbridge")
![The Inverness portion of the Caledonian Sleeper catches the morning sun as it crosses Carrbridge Viaduct over the River Dulnain on 12 September 2004.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/09/2004]](/images/4000/4496.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Autumn at Carrbridge viaduct, November 2005, looking south towards the station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/11/2005]](/images/3000/3841.jpg "Carrbridge")
![The road approach to Carrbridge station in 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/11/2005]](/images/5000/5812.jpg "Carrbridge")
![The Long Wait, Carrbridge, November 2005. A crewman on the held 10.10 Glasgow Queen Street - Inverness looks out onto Carrbridge viaduct for signs of the delayed southbound crossing service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/11/2005]](/images/5000/5813.jpg "Carrbridge")
![A Glasgow Queen Street - Inverness train pulls away from Carrbridge in November 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/11/2005]](/images/5000/5814.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Carrbridge station, taken from the A9.<br><br>[Graham Morgan 02/04/2007]](/images/14000/14567.jpg "Carrbridge")
![D1018 diesel hydraulic <i>Western Champion</i>, held at Carrbridge on the evening of 19 June with the <i>Western Chieftain</i> Bristol to Kyle railtour, waiting to cross the Inverness portion of the Caledonian Sleeper.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 19/06/2009]](/images/24000/24207.jpg "Carrbridge")
![The <I>Marco Polo</I> special charter train approaching Carrbridge on 9 July taking passengers off the stricken cruise liner from Inverness to Kings Cross. [Bus links were organised from Invergordon Port to Inverness and from Kings Cross to Tilbury.] <br>
<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 09/07/2009]](/images/24000/24479.jpg "Carrbridge")
![The <I>Northern Belle</I> southbound at Carrbridge on 10 August 2009 behind 37670(leading)+37401. The train is on its way back to Kings Cross via Edinburgh after visiting Aberdeen and Kyle of Lochalsh.<br>
<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 10/08/2009]](/images/24000/24976.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Scene at Carrbridge on 27 December, just one of the locations affected by the severe weather conditions - forecast here for the next 3 nights is minus 12 celsius... and look out for icicles! <br><br>[Gus Carnegie 27/12/2009]](/images/26000/26947.jpg "Carrbridge")
![View south from Carrbridge station on 27 December 2009, with the 'signs of life' having been left by a passing class 37 on snow clearance duty. <br><br>[Gus Carnegie 27/12/2009]](/images/26000/26950.jpg "Carrbridge")
![EWS 66139 with the engineers train at Carrbridge on 11 January 2010.<br><br>[John Gray /01/2010]](/images/27000/27153.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Wrecked Stobart Rail containers, photographed following the Carrbridge derailment in January 2010.<br><br>[John Gray /01/2010]](/images/31000/31111.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Carrbridge clearup 1. Heavy lifting equipment at Carrbridge, having arrived from Aberdeen on 7 January 2010.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 07/01/2010]](/images/27000/27092.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Carrbridge clearup 2. Articulated lorry with recovered container having problems negotiating the junction on Station Road on 7 January 2010, with traffic halted for a good 30 minutes. [With thanks to Gus Carnegie] <br><br>[Andrew Kirk 07/01/2010]](/images/27000/27093.jpg "Carrbridge")
![<I>... and the flats are even longer than the b*!!#y containers!</I> Ongoing recovery manoeuvres at Carrbridge, scene on Friday 8 January 2010.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 08/01/2010]](/images/27000/27105.jpg "Carrbridge")
![<I>The only game in town.... </I> scene near Carrbridge station on 8 January 2010 with recovery operations underway.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 08/01/2010]](/images/27000/27106.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Following the derailment at Carrbridge on 4 January 2010, removal of the Stobart containers is currently taking place. The photograph shows lifting operations underway on the morning of 9 January - see latest news item.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 09/01/2010]](/images/27000/27114.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Bit of a mess! Organising the recovery operation at Carrbridge - 11 January 2010.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 11/01/2010]](/images/3000/3774.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Platform scene at Carrbridge station on 11 January with container recovery ongoing.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 11/01/2010]](/images/27000/27143.jpg "Carrbridge")
![<I>Here comes the cavalry... </I> EWS 66112 makes its way through the snow en route to the Carrbridge crash site on the morning of 11 January 2010 to provide assistance with the ongoing container recovery operation.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 11/01/2010]](/images/27000/27144.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Under fading light at Carrbridge on 11 January the Ainscough crane (the 5th crane to be used) works flat out lifting the containers. [See addendum to today's Railscot News Item.]<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 11/01/2010]](/images/27000/27148.jpg "Carrbridge")
![General view of Carrbridge from the A9 on 11 January. EWS 66139 is at the head of an engineers train and the large crane on the right has just lifted a damaged wagon from the station and is lowering it into a holding area.<br><br>[John Gray 11/01/2010]](/images/27000/27150.jpg "Carrbridge")
![EWS 66113 and DRS 37423 arrive at Carrbridge from Inverness on 11 January on snowplough duty.<br><br>[John Gray 11/01/2010]](/images/27000/27152.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Scene at Carrbridge on 18 January with recovery work continuing. 66048 is covered by the green tarpaulin in the centre of the picture. There may be some second thoughts about how best to remove the locomotive, with Carillion having stopped work on the temporary road from the A9 to the trackside.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 18/01/2010]](/images/27000/27255.jpg "Carrbridge")
![A 'shed' in the back garden. Covered with tarpaulins no 66048 <I> James the engine </I> lives up to the nickname of the Class 66 as it awaits recovery at Carrbridge along with two wrecked container wagons.<br><br>[John Gray 19/01/2010]](/images/27000/27263.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Heading north,170423 eases slowly past the site of the goods train derailment at Carrbridge.The damage to the platforms is visible and the damaged track in the loop has been lifted.<br><br>[John Gray 19/01/2010]](/images/27000/27264.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Activity at Carrbridge on the morning of 11 February 2010, with preparations being made for 'the big lift' of 66048, due to take place in two days time.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 11/02/2010]](/images/6000/6706.jpg "Carrbridge")
![The 1000 tonne crane being assembled at Carrbridge on 11 February 2010 in preparation for the removal of derailed 66048, planned to take place within the next two days. [See news item]<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 11/02/2010]](/images/27000/27626.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Scene alongside Carrbridge station on 12 February 2010, showing part of the 1000 tonne crane being assembled in readiness for 'the big lift'. <br><br>[Gus Carnegie 12/02/2010]](/images/27000/27646.jpg "Carrbridge")
![<I>See me!</I> The fully assembled 1000 tonne crane stands alongside Carrbridge station on 12 February 2010 ready for <I>the big lift</I> [see image 1503].<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 12/02/2010]](/images/27000/27653.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Recovered containers being removed from the crash site at Carrbridge on Saturday morning 13 February 2010. The lorries are using the temporary road laid to provide a direct link between the site and the A9.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 13/02/2010]](/images/27000/27665.jpg "Carrbridge")
![<I>She flies!</I> ....'The Big Lift' of 66048 underway at Carrbridge station in the early hours of 14 February 2010. [Andrew Smith/BBC News - with thanks to Sue Davies] <br><br>[Andrew Smith/BBC News 14/02/2010]](/images/1000/1503.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Some of the remaining badly damaged containers being cut up at Carrbridge on 14 February 2010.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 14/02/2010]](/images/27000/27685.jpg "Carrbridge")
![66048 covered by a tarpaulin at Carrbridge on 14 February 2010. Having been lifted clear at 3.15 am this morning the locomotive is currently awaiting the arrival of a low-loader to take it back to Derby for attention.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 14/02/2010]](/images/27000/27686.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Eight weeks to the day since it left the rails at Carrbridge, class 66 locomotive no 66048 is about to be hauled onto a low loader before being taken to Inverness for partial dismantling, prior to being shipped to Derby for further attention.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 01/03/2010]](/images/27000/27925.jpg "Carrbridge")
![40145 passes South through Carrbridge on 5th April with a Pathfinder railtour. This is the first tour to pass through Carrbridge since the derailment in January. Note the recent repairs to the platform edge.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 05/04/2010]](/images/28000/28371.jpg "Carrbridge")
![The <I>Northern Belle</I> passes a Scotrail Turbostar at Carrbridge on 7th August 2010.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 07/08/2010]](/images/30000/30142.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Nearly 9 months after the derailment at Carrbridge [see image 27143], work is still ongoing to replace the cables that were damaged in January. The temporary ones are currently being replaced with fully ducted cables around the station passing loop. Also, the resident's garage that was flattened in the incident has this week been replaced with a<br>
brand new one.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 17/09/2010]](/images/30000/30731.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Platform view looking north at Carrbridge station on 6 December 2010.<br><br>[John Gray 06/12/2010]](/images/31000/31817.jpg "Carrbridge")
![EWS 67005 hauling the Rail-Blue Charters <I>'Winter Highlander'</I> from Darlington to Inverness, photographed at Carrbridge station on 11 March 2011<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 11/03/2011]](/images/33000/33129.jpg "Carrbridge")
![The North Berwick - Kyle of Lochalsh SRPS <I>Kyle Crusader</I> excursion, hauled by Deltic 55022 <I>Royal Scots Grey</I>, runs through Carrbridge on 28 May 2011.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 28/05/2011]](/images/34000/34268.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Platform scene at Carrbridge on 28 May as the The North Berwick - Kyle of Lochalsh SRPS <I>Kyle Crusader</I> hauled by Deltic 55022 <I>Royal Scots Grey</I>, runs through the station.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 28/05/2011]](/images/34000/34278.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Sunset, Carrbridge Viaduct, 15 January 2012.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 15/01/2012]](/images/37000/37227.jpg "Carrbridge")
![The new plaque on display at Carrbridge station in June 2012.... [welcome recognition for our planting, watering and litter picking over the past year. GC]<br><br>[Gus Carnegie /06/2012]](/images/39000/39311.jpg "Carrbridge")
![A Network Rail team erecting the new mast at the South end of Carrbridge station as part of their new private radio network on 20 September 2012. The old south signal box is just visible in the background. This is one of the last masts to be erected on this section of the line, those at Moy, Slochd, Aviemore and Kinveachy having been installed a few weeks earlier.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 20/09/2012]](/images/40000/40394.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Freightliner 66618 crosses Carrbridge Viaduct on 4 April heading for Inverness with a cement train from Oxwellmains. <br><br>[John Gray 04/04/2013]](/images/42000/42643.jpg "Carrbridge")
![DRS 37605 and 37602 top and tail a northbound nuclear flask train approaching Carrbridge on 16 December.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 16/12/2013]](/images/45000/45657.jpg "Carrbridge")
![An unusual visitor to the Highlands on a dreich New Years Eve 2013. Class 56 No.56312 <i> Jeremiah Dixon </i> passes through a very wet Carrbridge Station on its way south from Inverness. [The full nameplate reads: Jeremiah Dixon - Son of County Durham - Surveyor of the Mason-Dixon Line U.S.A.]<br><br>[John Gray 31/12/2013]](/images/45000/45806.jpg "Carrbridge")
![DBS 67026 <I>Diamond Jubilee</I> approaches Carrbridge on 10 May with a railtour for Inverness.<br><br>[John Gray 10/05/2014]](/images/47000/47286.jpg "Carrbridge")
![37685 <i>Loch Arkaig</i> and 37516 <I>Loch Laidon</i> pass through Carrbridge in the rain on 10 May with an SRPS Railtour from North Berwick to Kyle of Lochalsh.<br><br>[John Gray 10/05/2014]](/images/47000/47358.jpg "Carrbridge")
![View north at Carrbridge on 23 March, with the station building gleaming in the early spring sunshine.<br>
<br><br>[John Yellowlees 23/03/2015]](/images/50000/50743.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Deltic 55003 <I>Meld</I> at Carrbridge on 27 April 2015. The locomotive was on its way from Glasgow to Inverness where it will haul the Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh return leg of the <I>'Great Britain VIII'</I> railtour. This is one of the changes resulting from the current suspension of WCRC from the national network.<br><br>[Gus Carnegie 27/04/2015]](/images/51000/51126.jpg "Carrbridge")
![Class 60 No.60087 CLIC Sargent running light engine from Oxwellmains Lafarge to Inverness Lafarge is pictured approaching Carrbridge.<br><br>[John Gray 28/03/2016]](/images/54000/54736.jpg "Carrbridge")
![With paintwork gleaming,66736 'Wolverhampton Wanderers' makes the short trip from Inverness to Carrbridge with The Royal Scotsman.Pictured passing Castletown near Inverness.<br><br>[John Gray 20/04/2016]](/images/54000/54958.jpg "Carrbridge")
![A Carrbridge reflection.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/09/2016]](/images/56000/56540.jpg "Carrbridge")
