Wick railway station

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Wick
The external view of Wick railway station
Location
Place	Wick
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates	58°26′33″N 3°05′44″W / 58.442504, -3.095579Coordinates: 58°26′33″N 3°05′44″W / 58.442504, -3.095579
Grid reference	ND360509
Operations
Station code	WCK
Managed by	First ScotRail
Platforms in use	1
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2002/03 *	19,556
2004/05 *	19,582
2005/06 *	19,079
History
28 July 1874	Open
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Wick from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Wick railway station is a railway station serving the town of Wick, in the Highland council area in the north of Scotland. The station is the terminus of the Far North Line, near Wick police station and Caithness General Hospital, within the former county of Caithness.

Thurso station also features an end to this line, but after reaching Thurso, services from Inverness turn back to Georgemas Junction before heading east for Wick, making Wick the de facto terminus.

[edit] History

The station was built by the Sutherland and Caithness Railway, opening with line in 1874. On the 1 July 1903 the station became the junction with the Wick and Lybster Light Railway. The last trains to Lybster ran in 1944, although the line was not officially closed until 1951.

[edit] Sources

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present, 1st, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 

• Jowett, Alan (1989). Jowett's railway atlas of Great Britain and Ireland : from pre-grouping to the present day, 1st, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 

• RAILSCOT on Sutherland and Caithness Railway
• RAILSCOT on Wick and Lybster Light Railway

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Georgemas Junction		First ScotRail Far North Line		Terminus
Historical Railways
Bilbster Station closed; Line open		Sutherland and Caithness Railway Highland Railway		Terminus
Thrumster Station and Line closed		Wick and Lybster Railway Highland Railway		Terminus