Culrain
Station 86
Rudy caught the 12:09 train to Golspie after walking here from Invershin.
Culrain Station
Culrain railway station is one of Scotland’s least used stations with only a few hundred passengers each year. It’s located just south of the Invershin Viaduct on the Far North Line.
The station was opened with the Sutherland Railway in 1868 and as the nearest station to Carbisdale Castle it became seasonally popular with people staying at the youth hostel there from 1945 to 2011.
Culrain station waiting shelter. Rudy at Culrain
Once the youth hostel closed in 2011 passenger numbers dropped from 1700 to 500 by the next year. Two years later Culrain became a request stop.
Rudy waits for his train home in the sunshine, luckily the information screen was wrong and his train wasn’t too far away 🙂
Culrain is a request stop just over an hour & a half’s journey from Inverness on the Far North Line.
The “live train times” information board wasn’t showing correct when we visited but there is a shelter with telephone style help point for accurate information from Scotrail’s customer service team.