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Grantown-on-Spey West
All photographs of this location in date order.
![Just north of Grantown-on-Spey, a BRCW Type 2 hauled train drifts down the gradient from Dava Summit, not long after the 1958 start of dieselisation in the Highlands. <br><br>[Peter Oliver Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1958]](/images/41000/41833.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![A northbound goods attacks the 1 in 84 out of Grantown-on-Spey West in 1961 on the long climb towards Dava Summit. <br><br>[Peter Oliver Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1961]](/images/26000/26571.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![Platform scene at Grantown-on-Spey West - with its now sadly gone <I>art deco</I> style signal box - photographed in April 1968, three years after closure (complete with a young DS on the platform!). A recent £5m appeal has been launched to extend the Strathspey Railway from north of Broomhill back to this site. [See news item]<br>
<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /04/1968]](/images/26000/26318.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![The distinctive signal box and substantial station building at Grantown-on-Spey West, still extant in April 1968, three years after closure - but alas now long gone.<br><br>[David Spaven /04/1968]](/images/29000/29004.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![A fine surviving platform sign at Grantown-on-Spey West in April 1968, three years after complete closure.<br><br>[David Spaven /04/1968]](/images/37000/37283.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![Sunshine on Grantown-on-Spey West in 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1974]](/images/13000/13966.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![View along the platforms at Grantown-on-Spey West in 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1974]](/images/14000/14009.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![Abandoned sb at Grantown-on-Spey West in 1976.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1976]](/images/13000/13985.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![Grantown-on-Spey West in April 1977.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1977]](/images/12000/12041.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![April 1977 view of Grantown-on-Spey West station.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1977]](/images/12000/12059.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![With the A95 road at Gaich on the extreme right, the railway track bed can be seen heading away towards Broomhill in April 1977. [See image 21050] for a view some 30 years later.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1977]](/images/57000/57259.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![The road in front is the A95 at Gaich looking towards Grantown-on-Spey. Across the road in the middle distance is the trackbed of the railway as it approaches Grantown-on-Spey West. A few feet below me is the tackbed which was severed when the road was re-aligned in the mid 70s and today remains a hurdle for the Strathspey Railway's ambition to reach the town.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1977]](/images/57000/57478.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![A view of the station building at Grantown-on-Spey West in April 1977. Unfortunately the building was demolished a few years later when the area was used as an industrial estate.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1977]](/images/59000/59955.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![The former Grantown on Spey West Station in January 1980. Now demolished with nothing remaining.<br><br>[Peter Todd 03/01/1980]](/images/39000/39655.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![The old signal box at Grantown-on-Spey West in August 1982.<br><br>[Peter Todd /08/1982]](/images/19000/19434.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![LMS Grantown-on-Spey signal Box before demolition in August 1982. The view looks towards Forres.<br><br>[Peter Todd /08/1982]](/images/52000/52927.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![Scene at Grantown-on-Spey West in August 1982. Originally opened by the Inverness & Perth Junction Railway as plain Grantown in 1863, final closure came in October 1965. The site was subsequently cleared to make way for an industrial estate.<br><br>[Peter Todd 18/08/1982]](/images/19000/19310.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![Grantown-on-Spey West in August 1985.<br><br>[John McIntyre /08/1985]](/images/12000/12161.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![The north end of Grantown-on-Spey West lit by headlights in 1993. The remains of one of the low platforms, north of the barrow crossing, is on the left. The black roofed Nissen huts are off to the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1993]](/images/60000/60240.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![View north at the former Grantown-on-Spey-West station in 2005. The signal box was to the right here. The typical Highland Railway cottage remains on the right, surrounded by growing firs.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 05/11/2005]](/images/60000/60284.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![Beneath this fine display of weeds lies the trackbed leading to Broomhill. The A95 which has to be crossed is on the right. Farm structures prevent a direct line-of-sight photo of the Grantown end of the trackbed.<br><br>[John Gray 15/10/2008]](/images/21000/21050.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
![This bridge marks the end of the existing trackbed south of Grantown-on-Spey West. Some major work will be involved before the Strathspey Railway can cross the A95 and reinstate the railway to Grantown. <br><br>[John Gray 15/10/2008]](/images/21000/21051.jpg "Grantown-on-Spey West")
