Highland Main Line

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Higland Main Line

Principal stations (from south to north) Perth Dunkeld and Birnam Pitlochry Blair Atholl Dalwhinnie Newtonmore Kingussie Aviemore (for Strathspey Steam Railway) Carrbridge Inverness

The Highland Main Line is a railway line in Scotland. It is 190 km (118 miles) long and runs through the Scottish Highlands linking a series of small towns and villages with Perth at one end and Inverness at the other. Today, services between Inverness and Edinburgh, Glasgow and London use the line. At Inverness the line connects with the Far North Line, the Aberdeen-Inverness Line and services on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line.

The vast majority of the line was built and operated by the Highland Railway with a small section of the line between Perth and Stanley built by the Caledonian Railway. Originally, the line between Inverness and Perth went via Forres, but the Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway was opened in 1898 to allow for a more sensible routing.

As of 2004, there are stations on the line as follows:

Places served	Ordnance Survey grid references
	and other notes
Perth	NO112230
Dunkeld and Birnam	NO030417
	Shared station
Pitlochry	NN937580
Blair Atholl	NN870653
Dalwhinnie	NN634848
Newtonmore	NN715984
Kingussie	NH756003
Aviemore	NH895123
	Connection with Strathspey Steam Railway
Carrbridge	NH899224
Inverness	NH667454

Services on the line are provided by First ScotRail and GNER.