Wick railway station

Wick

Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Ùige[1]
National Rail
158701 standing at Wick
General information
LocationWick, Highland
Scotland
Coordinates58°26′30″N 3°05′51″W / 58.4416°N 3.0975°W / 58.4416; -3.0975
Grid referenceND360509
Managed byScotRail
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeWCK[2]
History
Opened28 July 1874; 150 years ago (1874-07-28)[3]
Original companySutherland and Caithness Railway
Pre-groupingHighland Railway
Post-groupingLMS
Passengers
2018/19Increase 17,890
2019/20Decrease 16,664
2020/21Decrease 3,442
2021/22Increase 12,980
2022/23Increase 14,924
Listed Building – Category B
Designated28 November 1984 (amended 15 December 1998)
Reference no.LB42321[4]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Wick railway station is a railway station located in Wick, in the Highland council area in the far north of Scotland. It serves the town of Wick and other surrounding areas in the historic county of Caithness, including Staxigoe, Papigoe and Haster. The station is the terminus of the Far North Line, 161 miles 36 chains (259.8 kilometres) from Inverness.[5] It is managed by ScotRail, who operate all trains serving the station.

  1. ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ^ Deaves, Phil. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  3. ^ Butt (1995), page 250
  4. ^ "WICK RAILWAY STATION". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  5. ^ 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. 104. ISBN 978-1909431-26-3.