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Elgin railway station is a railway station serving the town of Elgin
Elgin, Moray

Elgin is a former cathedral city and a former Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland and is the administrative and commercial centre for Moray. The town originated to the south of the River Lossie on the higher ground above the flood plain....
, Moray
Moray

Moray is one of the 32 Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland ....
 in Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
. The station is managed by First ScotRail
First ScotRail

First ScotRail is the FirstGroup train operating company running domestic passenger trains within Scotland and the cross-border Caledonian Sleeper service to London....
 and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line
Aberdeen to Inverness Line

The Aberdeen to Inverness Line is a railway line in Scotland linking Aberdeen and Inverness....
.

The station has two platforms linked by a footbridge, and a booking office/waiting room with a vending machine.

n was formerly served by two stations, one owned by the Highland Railway
Highland Railway

The Highland Railway was one of the smaller United Kingdom railways before the Railways Act 1921; it operated north of Perth railway station, Scotland in Scotland and served the farthest north of Britain....
 and one by the Great North of Scotland Railway
Great North of Scotland Railway

The Great North of Scotland Railway was one of the smaller United Kingdom railways before the Railways Act 1921, operating in the far north-east of Scotland....
 (GNSR). Lines went from Elgin to Lossiemouth (closed 1964), Keith via Craigellachie (1968) and Aberdeen via Buckie (1968) in addition to the present Aberdeen-Inverness route.






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Elgin railway station is a railway station serving the town of Elgin
Elgin, Moray

Elgin is a former cathedral city and a former Royal Burgh in Moray, Scotland and is the administrative and commercial centre for Moray. The town originated to the south of the River Lossie on the higher ground above the flood plain....
, Moray
Moray

Moray is one of the 32 Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland ....
 in Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
. The station is managed by First ScotRail
First ScotRail

First ScotRail is the FirstGroup train operating company running domestic passenger trains within Scotland and the cross-border Caledonian Sleeper service to London....
 and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line
Aberdeen to Inverness Line

The Aberdeen to Inverness Line is a railway line in Scotland linking Aberdeen and Inverness....
.

The station has two platforms linked by a footbridge, and a booking office/waiting room with a vending machine.

History

Elgin was formerly served by two stations, one owned by the Highland Railway
Highland Railway

The Highland Railway was one of the smaller United Kingdom railways before the Railways Act 1921; it operated north of Perth railway station, Scotland in Scotland and served the farthest north of Britain....
 and one by the Great North of Scotland Railway
Great North of Scotland Railway

The Great North of Scotland Railway was one of the smaller United Kingdom railways before the Railways Act 1921, operating in the far north-east of Scotland....
 (GNSR). Lines went from Elgin to Lossiemouth (closed 1964), Keith via Craigellachie (1968) and Aberdeen via Buckie (1968) in addition to the present Aberdeen-Inverness route. The stations were located about one mile to the south of Elgin town centre, which made them inconvenient for local journeys, e.g. to Lossiemouth
Lossiemouth

Lossiemouth is a town in Moray, Scotland. Originally the port belonging to Elgin, Moray, it became an important and innovative fishing town. Although there has been over a 1,000 years of settlement in the area, the present day town was formed over the past 250 years and consists of four separate communities that eventually merged into one....
, and bus services soon eliminated much of the local passenger traffic - passengers would generally only use the train service if they were connecting to long-distance trains.

The stations were less than 500 metres apart and linked by a footpath. This situation persisted until 1968 when the GNSR station (known as Elgin East), opened on 10 August 1852, was closed. The present station, formerly the West (ex-Highland) station, opened on 25 March 1858, was rebuilt in a modern style in the 1980s.

The GNSR station building is still used as office accommodation and stands on the site of the original Morayshire Railway
Morayshire Railway

The Morayshire Railway was the first railway to be built north of Aberdeen, in Scotland. It received royal assent in 1846 but construction did not start until 1851 due to the economic conditions existing in the United Kingdom at the time....
 station.

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