Aviemore station on Grampian Road: the exit, the footbridge, ticket office and toilet hours, step-free access, parking and the bus up to Glenmore.
Aviemore station opens straight onto Grampian Road, the main street of the village. The entrance porch on Platform 1 faces west across a small forecourt to the road, with the Cairngorm Hotel on the far side.
The buildings are the Highland Railway’s timber station of 1892, painted weatherboarding under a long canopy on cast-iron columns, with a trellis-sided footbridge at the south end. Historic Environment Scotland lists the group at Category A and rates it a rare late-Victorian timber station with no equal in the Highlands.
ScotRail manages the station. Its own trains, LNER’s service from London King’s Cross and the Caledonian Sleeper from London Euston all stop here; the pages for trains from Inverness, Edinburgh, Glasgow and London have the journeys.
National Rail counts two platforms: Platform 1 beside the entrance and Platform 2 on the island, over the footbridge. Platform 3, reached over the same bridge, belongs to the Strathspey Railway, the heritage line to Boat of Garten and Broomhill. It sells its own tickets and runs to its own calendar, so check its website rather than the departure screens.
The station sits towards the south end of the village, so most of Grampian Road lies to the right as you come out. The walk to the village centre is in the station panel on this page; it follows the main street, with no turnings to find.
The taxi rank is uncovered, and National Rail notes it is reached by an uncontrolled road crossing. Stagecoach route 30, the bus up the ski road, starts from the stop it calls Aviemore Rail Station and runs by Coylumbridge and Glenmore to the Cairngorm car park. Stagecoach and Traveline Scotland have the current times. Rail replacement buses, when they run, stop at the front of the station.
The ticket office is in the main building on Platform 1. On 27 October 2026 National Rail gave its hours as 07:30 to 21:25 Monday to Friday, 07:35 to 14:39 on Saturday and 09:40 to 17:20 on Sunday, the same hours staff are on hand, with a note of a proposal to alter them. At other times, use the single ticket machine on Platform 1, whose controls sit at wheelchair height.
The toilets, including a unisex accessible one that needs no RADAR key and baby changing, are inside the waiting room, which is part of the ticket office. Both close when it does, so on a Saturday they shut at 14:39. After that there is seating under the platform canopies, limited on Platform 2. Help points with induction loops are inside and outside the building. No left-luggage service is listed, which matters if the plan was to drop a pack and walk.
National Rail puts Aviemore in step-free category B3, which it explains as “some step-free access to platforms but this may be in 1 direction only”. Platform 1 is level with the main entrance. The footbridge to Platform 2 has stairs and there are no lifts; National Rail says an alternative route between the platforms uses an external path and is “a considerable distance”. The notes on the same page call it a Category B2 station, so ask about the route when booking help.
Ramps and wheelchairs are kept at the station, and National Rail warns that the step between train and platform can be larger than usual. Passenger Assist can be booked up to two hours before a journey, on 0800 022 3720 or ScotRail’s line, 0800 046 1634. Meet staff at the ticket office on Platform 1. If you need Platform 2 without the stairs, go straight there and use the help point by the pole next to the footbridge stairs, beside the large Aviemore sign.
The Strathspey Railway states that there is no accessible route to Platform 3 from the Grampian Road entrance. Its step-free way in is from its own car park behind the station on Dalfaber Road, across a level crossing approached by a long, gradual ramp.
National Rail lists a station car park of ten spaces run by the local authority, one of them an accessible bay, with two more accessible bays at the roadside; Blue Badge holders park free in the Blue Badge spaces. It lists no set drop-off point. Highland Council’s Grampian Road car park, a little further north, has 45 spaces and charges from 8am to 6pm every day, £3.00 for up to four hours and £4.00 for up to ten, with a ten-hour maximum stay, as listed on 27 October 2026; check the tariff board. Strathspey Railway passengers can use the railway’s free car park off Dalfaber Road, and the parking guide covers the rest of the village.
Each route has its own page with the day's trains, the changes and a link to times and fares.