Lairg railway station

Lairg
Scottish Gaelic: Luirg
The view northward in 2009
Location
Place	Lairg
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates	58°00′07″N 4°23′59″W / 58.0019°N 4.3998°W / 58.0019; -4.3998Coordinates: 58°00′07″N 4°23′59″W / 58.0019°N 4.3998°W / 58.0019; -4.3998
Grid reference	NC582039
Operations
Station code	LRG
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	4,096
2005/06	4,126
2006/07	3,724
2007/08	4,790
2008/09	5,280
2009/10	5,542
2010/11	6,098
2011/12	6,330
2012/13	6,176
2013/14	7,440
2014/15	7,514
History
28 July 1874	Open
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lairg from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Lairg station in September 1973, with a postbus waiting.

Lairg railway station is a railway station just south of the village of Lairg in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line.

Until April 2009 the station provided an interchange point for postbus services to the remote communities of Durness, Kinlochbervie and Tongue, Highland. Following considerable local opposition to the cancellation of the services they have now been replaced by temporary services operated, under contract from the Highland Council, by Stagecoach plc. The future of the services has yet to be determined.

Highland Rail Partnership is based in the former booking office.

Services

Four Inverness to Wick via Thurso trains call here each way on weekdays & Saturdays (along with a fifth Inverness departure southbound in the early morning) and a single departure each way on Sundays.^[1]

References

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Invershin		Abellio ScotRail Far North Line		Rogart

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