| Lairg | |
| Native Name: | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Luirg[1] |
| Symbol Location: | gb |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Borough: | Lairg, Highland |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Coordinates: | 58.0019°N -4.3998°W |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Manager: | ScotRail |
| Platforms: | 2 |
| Code: | LRG[2] |
| Original: | Sutherland Railway |
| Pregroup: | Highland Railway |
| Postgroup: | LMSR |
| Years: | 13 April 1868 |
| Events: | Opened |
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Lairg railway station is a railway station just south of the village of Lairg in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line, 66miles from, between Invershin and Rogart.[3] ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.
The station opened on 13 April 1868, as part of the Sutherland Railway, later becoming part of the Highland Railway and later the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
Until April 2009 the station provided an interchange point for postbus services to the remote communities of Durness, Kinlochbervie and Tongue, Highland.[4] Following considerable local opposition to the cancellation of the services they were more recently replaced by temporary services operated, under contract from the Highland Council, by Stagecoach plc.[5]
Both platforms have waiting areas and benches, whilst there are also bike racks and a help point adjacent to platform 2. Platform 2 has step-free access from the car park, whilst platform 1 can only be accessed from the footbridge.[6] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
| Entries and exits | 4,326 | 4,096 | 4,126 | 3,724 | 4,790 | 5,280 | 5,542 | 6,098 | 6,330 | 6,176 | 7,440 | 7,514 | 6,592 | 5,576 | 5,426 | 6,016 | 6,264 | 742 | 2,960 | 3,348 |
Four Inverness to via Thurso trains call here each way on weekdays and Saturdays (along with a fifth Inverness departure southbound in the early morning) and a single departure each way on Sundays.[8]