Kingussie railway station is a railway station

Train station

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 serving the town of Kingussie

Kingussie

Kingussie is a small town in the Highland region of Scotland. It is one settlement in the Highland Council ward of Badenoch and Strathspey, and is the capital of the district of Badenoch. It lies beside the A9 road, although the old route of the A9 serves as the town's main street...

, Inverness-shire

Inverness-shire

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 in the Highland

Highland (council area)

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 Council Area of Scotland

Scotland

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. The station is managed by First ScotRail

First ScotRail

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 and is on the Highland Main Line

Highland Main Line

The Highland Main Line is a railway line in Scotland. It is long and runs through the Scottish Highlands linking a series of small towns and villages with Perth at one end and Inverness at the other. Today, services between Inverness and Edinburgh, Glasgow and London use the line...

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History

The Inverness and Perth Junction Railway

Inverness and Perth Junction Railway

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 (I&PJ) was authorised in 1861 for a line between and . It was built quickly, and was opened in sections; the last stretch, that between and , was opened on 9 September 1863; and one of the original stations was that at Kingussie. The I&PJ amalgamated with other railways to form the Highland Railway

Highland Railway

The Highland Railway was one of the smaller British railways before the Railways Act 1921; it operated north of Perth railway station in Scotland and served the farthest north of Britain...

 (HR) in 1865, and at the 1923 Grouping the HR became part of the newly formed London, Midland and Scottish Railway

London, Midland and Scottish Railway

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. The adjacent stations were to the north, and to the south, although the former has now closed.

It is located in Ruthven Road, Kingussie, about 200 yards south-east of the High Street. There are two platforms, one of conventional height on the Down line and another of somewhat lower height on the Up line; the station buildings are on the Down platform. A level crossing

Level crossing

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 takes Ruthven Road over both tracks at the Inverness end of the station, with the local signal box

Signal box

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 at that end of the Up platform. The station has a crossing loop on the mainly single-track line from to Perth

Perth railway station, Scotland

Perth railway station is a railway station located in Perth, Scotland. The station, designed by Sir William Tite, won an architecture prize. It has seven platforms, five of which are "through" platforms....

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Kingussie High School is close to the station, as are also the Highland Council offices serving the Badenoch and Strathspey

Badenoch and Strathspey

Badenoch and Strathspey as a local government district 1975 to 1996Badenoch and Strathspey is a local government ward of the Highland council area and a ward management area of the Highland Council in Scotland...

area.