Pitlochry railway station


Pitlochry railway station serves the town of Pitlochry in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is served by Abellio ScotRail trains between Glasgow or Edinburgh and Inverness, the Caledonian Sleeper to/from London Euston and the daily London North Eastern Railway service between London King's Cross and Inverness via and the East Coast Main Line.
The station is situated on the former Inverness and Perth Junction Railway and was opened along with the line in 1863. The I&PJR amalgamated with other railways to create the Highland Railway in 1865.
The station is from, and has a passing loop long, flanked by two platforms. Platform 1 on the up line could accommodate trains having eight coaches, whereas platform 2 on the down line could hold eleven. Both platforms were extended in March 2019 as part of a £57 million upgrade programme by Network Rail, which also saw the station re-signalled.

Services

All Highland main line services between Perth & Inverness call here, providing links to both and Edinburgh Waverley as well as the daytime and sleeper services to London. There are seven trains each way per day each way on Sundays.
From 2018, this station will be one of those to benefit from a package of timetable enhancements introduced by Transport Scotland and Scotrail. The current Perth to Inverness timetable will increase to hourly each way, with trains south of there running on alternate hours to Edinburgh & Glasgow. Journey times will also be reduced by 10 minutes to both cities. However, the improvements to the Highland Main Line have been pushed back to at least December 2020.