Alness train station
You can reach 25 stations directly from Alness on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Dingwall, with 15 trains a day.
Alness is the nearest station for postcodes in IV17, IV16. Check your own postcode.
- 25 direct destinations
- 2,274th busiest in Britain
- Unstaffed
- Step-free throughout
- 28 parking spaces
- 5 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Alness
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dingwall | 15 | 16 | 10 |
| Invergordon | 15 | 16 | 10 |
| Inverness | 15 | 16 | 10 |
| Muir of Ord | 15 | 16 | 10 |
| Beauly | 14 | 15 | 10 |
| Conon Bridge | 14 | 15 | 10 |
| Georgemas Junction | 14 | 14 | 4 |
| Fearn | 13 | 14 | 8 |
| Tain | 13 | 14 | 8 |
| Ardgay | 11 | 11 | 2 |
| Lairg | 8 | 8 | 2 |
| Brora | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Culrain | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Forsinard | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Golspie | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Helmsdale | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Invershin | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Kildonan | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Rogart | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Thurso | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Wick | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Altnabreac | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| Kinbrace | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| Scotscalder | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| Dunrobin Castle | 5 | 5 | 1 |
Lines serving Alness
Alness is on the Far North Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Alness station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Alness station on 7 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 2 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. Every one of them is held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Alness station is
20,482 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,274th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Alness and Inverness than any other pair: 9,704 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Nearest other stations
- Invergordon 2.8 miles
- Dingwall 9.4 miles
- Tain 11.0 miles
- Fearn 11.1 miles
- Conon Bridge 11.6 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Alness, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Evanton · 3.4 miles
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Facilities at Alness station
Alness is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.
Waiting room
Parking at Alness station
- Station Car Park 28 spaces, 3 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 10 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 August 2026.
Getting to Alness station
Alness station is in Highland, Scotland, and is run by ScotRail.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Academy.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Alness station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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