| Fearn | |||||||||
| Native Name: | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Manachainn Rois | ||||||||
| Symbol Location: | gb | ||||||||
| Symbol: | rail | ||||||||
| Borough: | Hill of Fearn, Highland | ||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 57.778°N -3.994°W | ||||||||
| Grid Name: | Grid reference | ||||||||
| Manager: | ScotRail | ||||||||
| Platforms: | 1 | ||||||||
| Code: | FRN[1] | ||||||||
| Original: | Inverness and Ross-shire Railway | ||||||||
| Pregroup: | Highland Railway | ||||||||
| Postgroup: | LMSR | ||||||||
| Years: | 1 June 1864 | ||||||||
| Events: | Opened | ||||||||
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | ||||||||
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Fearn railway station is a railway station serving the village of Hill of Fearn in the Highland council area of Scotland, located around 1.3miles from the village. It is situated on the Far North Line, 40miles form, between Tain and Invergordon,[3] and is also the nearest station to Balintore, Hilton and Shandwick (the Seaboard Villages), Portmahomack and the Nigg Bay area of Easter Ross. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.
The station opened on 1 June 1864, as part of the Inverness and Ross-shire Railway, later the Highland Railway and then the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.[4]
As well as a small car park, there are bike racks, a bench, a waiting shelter and a help point. The station has step free access.[5] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
The railway through Fearn station is single track, the nearest passing loops being at to the south and to the west. The station has a single platform which is long enough for a seven-coach train. The platform is very low and this gives rise to difficulties for passengers who are in any way infirm and unable to climb the height to the coaches, so there are portable steps available at the station. At the approach to Fearn station, conductors are obliged to use public address systems to warn alighting passengers of the low platform, and they also frequently do this when inspecting tickets of passengers travelling to Fearn.
| Entries and exits | 1,909 | 5,157 | 5,143 | 6,069 | 5,581 | 7,724 | 6,790 | 6,720 | 7,818 | 7,226 | 6,606 | 6,130 | 5,396 | 5,262 | 5,256 | 4,304 | 4,182 | 850 | 2,980 | 3,754 |
As of the December 2021 timetable, on weekdays and Saturdays, the stations sees 6 trains northbound (4 to Wick via Thurso, 1 to Tain, and 1 to Ardgay), and 7 trains southbound to Inverness. On Sundays, the station sees 4 trains northbound (1 to Wick via Thurso, 3 to Tain) and 4 trains to Inverness.[7]