Inverness

CRS Code	INV
Collected date	28/07/15

Inverness was the start and end of our brief weekend in the far north of Scotland, as we took the Caledonian Sleeper both there and back. The station building dates from the 1960s and faces a small square between two rather older buildings:

Inside the station entrance looking back towards the forecourt:

The entrance leads into a concourse area:

Walking over to the other side of the concourse, so the entrance is behind the WHSmith building:

Platforms 1 and 2 are set off to one side from the main concourse. Here's the entrance archway to those platforms:

Detail of the SR monogram on the wall. I assume this was transplanted from the old station building when the station was rebuilt in the 1960s:

The small concourse area at the end of platforms 1 and 2, accessed through the gateline to the right:

Platform 2:

The side of the station. Platform 2 is covered by this add-on canopy, and platform 1 begins beyond the canopy's end:

Returning to the main concourse, looking through the archway in the wall that runs down the centre of the main trainshed:

Platforms 3 and 4:

On the wall between platform 4 and platform 5 is this plaque listing the directors of one of the railway companies:

Platforms 5 and 6:

On the other side of the wall from the "Directors" plaque is this plaque marking the completion of the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway:

Looking back at the gateline:

Looking south down platforms 5 and 6:

This side of the station is not barriered off, because it provides access both to the car park and to the oddly distant platform 7. Emerging from the station building we look back at the trainshed:

A longer view of the rear of the station:

Looking approximately eastwards along platform 6:

Looking west from the same point:

Looking along the car park, platform 7 is still quite a way away:

Finally, platform 7, cut back to its now isolated location in 2000:

Looking east towards the station buildings (in the distance, you can see them, honest!) on platform 7:

Looking west on platform 7:

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