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.jpg) The new station in 2019, looking eastward towards Elgin and Aberdeen | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Forres, Moray Scotland | ||||
| Coordinates | 57°36′35″N 3°37′33″W / 57.6097°N 3.6258°W | ||||
| Grid reference | NJ029589 | ||||
| Managed by | ScotRail | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | FOR[2] | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Highland Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | LMS | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 25 March 1858 | Opened[3] by Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway | ||||
| 3 August 1863 | Station reopened[3] by Highland Railway | ||||
| 5 October 2017 | Old station closed | ||||
| 17 October 2017 | New relocated station opened | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  0.126 million | ||||
| 2019/20 | 0.141 million | ||||
| 2020/21 |  32,890 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 92,636 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 97,030 | ||||
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Forres railway station serves the town of Forres, Moray in Scotland. The station is managed and served by ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen–Inverness line, between Nairn and Elgin, measured 119 miles 42 chains (192.4 km) from Perth via the Dava route.[4]
- ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
- ^ Deaves, Phil. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ^ a b Butt (1995), page 98
- ^ Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. p. 100. ISBN 978-1909431-26-3.