The Highland Main Line
The Highland Main Line runs for 118.2 miles between Inverness and Perth, serving 10 stations, with a top line speed of 100 mph.
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The line in numbers
| Length | 118.2 miles end to end |
|---|---|
| Track | about 161 miles, counting every running line |
| Stations | 10 |
| Top line speed | 100 mph |
| Passengers a year | 2.4 million entries and exits across its stations |
Stations on this line
- Inverness1.2 million a year
- Carrbridge7,020 a year
- Aviemore123,654 a year
- Kingussie42,058 a year
- Newtonmore8,454 a year
- Dalwhinnie3,356 a year
- Blair Atholl16,446 a year
- Pitlochry131,400 a year
- Dunkeld and Birnam61,270 a year
- Perth853,236 a year
The busiest station on the line is Inverness, 1.2 million entries and exits a year and 467th busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.