Insch railway station facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Insch Scottish Gaelic: Innis
View from Insch railway station looking west towards Hill of Dunnideer
Location	Insch, Aberdeenshire Scotland
Coordinates	57°20′15″N 2°37′00″W / 57.3374°N 2.6168°W / 57.3374; -2.6168
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	INS
History
Pre-grouping	Great North of Scotland Railway
Key dates
1854	Opened
Traffic
Passengers (2015/16)	118,378
Passengers (2016/17)	98,140
Passengers (2017/18)	88,362
Passengers (2018/19)	69,952
Passengers (2019/20)	57,690

Insch railway station is a railway station serving the village of Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line. It was opened by the Great North of Scotland Railway in 1854, on the route from Aberdeen to Keith.

The station building accommodates the Insch Connection Museum, which records the history of the railway in Insch and the local region. The station has two platforms, a signal box and a level crossing at its northern end. It is located at the southern end of a double track section of the line, which runs north as far as Kennethmont before reverting to single track once more.

History

In 2019, the platforms were extended to a length of 160m as part of a series of improvements to the Aberdeen to Inverness line.

Services

There is a basic two-hourly frequency in each directions (with peak extras), to Inverness via Elgin northbound and Aberdeen southbound (11 trains each way in total). The first departure to Aberdeen each weekday and Saturday continues south to Edinburgh Waverley and there is a return working in the evening. On Sundays there are five trains each way, with a southbound through working to Glasgow Queen Street.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Inverurie		Abellio ScotRail Aberdeen to Inverness Line		Huntly
Historical railways
Buchanstone Line open; Station closed		Great North of Scotland Railway GNoSR Main Line		Wardhouse Line open; Station closed