Castle Grant platform railway station

Castle Grant platform railway station was a railway station serving Castle Grant, in Strathspey in Scotland.

History

This station was opened with the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway in 1863. The station closed in 1949,^[1] the line closing in 1965.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Dava Line and Station closed		Inverness and Perth Junction Railway		Grantown-on-Spey (West) Line and Station closed

This was a private halt located at the overbridge and lodge at the gatehouse of Castle Grant (grid reference NJ032302). The overbridge is where the railway crosses the A939 road north of Grantown-on-Spey

'...in acknowledgement of the great facilities given by the Earl of Seafield in the formation of the railway through his estates' [1]

Some concrete platform stumps remain along the trackbed (in various states) near the lodge.

^ Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales - a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 116. OCLC 931112387.