Avoch
The site of the station in 2015
General information
Location	Black Isle,Ross and Cromarty Scotland
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Highland Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Post-grouping	LMSR British Railways
Key dates
1 February 1894	Station opened[1]
1 October 1951	Station closed to passengers[1]
13 June 1960[2]	Line closed
Location

Avoch railway station was a station on thesingle trackbranch of theHighland Railway, in north eastScotland. The line connected villages inThe Black Islepeninsula to the railway network via a junction atMuir of Ord.

Opened by theHighland Railway in 1894, it became part of theLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway during theGrouping of 1923. The station then passed on to theScottish Region of British Railways onnationalisation in 1948. It was then closed byBritish Railways.

Authorisation was obtained on 4 July 1890 to build a 15.75 mile (25 km) branch line from Muir of Ord toRosemarkie; however the line never proceeded beyond Fortrose.^[3]

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995).The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.).Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7.OCLC 60251199.OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000).Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers.ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1.OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989).Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0.OCLC 22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map
• Vallance, H.A. (1985).The Highland Railway. 4th Extended edition: extra material by C.R. Clinker and Anthony J. Lambert. Newton Abbot: David St John Thomas.ISBN 0-946537-24-0.

• Avoch station on navigable O. S. map

57°34′08″N4°11′01″W / 57.56897°N 4.18364°W /57.56897; -4.18364

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