Alness Railway Station

✓ Station Visit 264

Sunday service levels and summer hotel prices coincided to make Alness an overnight break-of-journey. Rudy has been on four trains to & from Alness! The first was on the 26th of April 2023 and most recently on the 2nd of June 2025.

Alness is the first station heading north that is exclusively on the Far North Line (after the junction that takes the Kyle Line westwards). Originally opened in 1863 with the line at their time extending only a little further as far as Invergordon. Alness was closed in 1960 but by 1973 a large amount of house building to support new industry nearby saw the station reopened.

Rudy's Adventures at Alness

Alness station walks and places to visit.

Alness 1st June 2025

Station Hotel (Alness)

Alness was our chosen place to break the long journey between Aberdeen and Thurso during our second trip to the far Far North Line. A more natural place to break the journey may have been Inverness but summer season prices were are bit too m

Alness 1st June 2025

River Averon (Alness)

We spent the night in Alness which gave us plenty of time to take an evening walk down to the River Averon and see the sluice & fish ladder. It was a lovely evening walk from there to the railway viaduct but if course Rudy's favourite was the open gr

Alness Photos

A small black terrier dog at Alness Station. — Rudy at Alness Station. June 2025

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Alness railway station is a railway station on the Far North Line, serving the town of Alness, on the Cromarty Firth, in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is 28 miles 70 chains (46.5 km) from Inverness, between Dingwall and Invergordon. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.

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