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Kildary railway station served the village of
Kildary Kildary ( gd, Caoldaraigh) is a small village in Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland. The village is located on the Balnagown River and is bordered by Balnagown Castle and the Balnagown estate, owned by Mohamed Al Fayed, former ...
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, Scotland from 1864 to 1960 on the
Inverness and Ross-shire Railway The Inverness and Ross-shire Railway was a Scottish railway company formed in 1860 to build a line from Inverness to Invergordon. It opened in 1862 as far as Dingwall and in 1863 to Invergordon. It was extended to a Bonar Bridge station in 1864 ...
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History

The station opened as Parkhill on 1 June 1864 by the
Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway The Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway (I&AJR) was a railway company in Scotland, created to connect other railways and complete the route between Inverness and Aberdeen. The Inverness and Nairn Railway had opened to the public on 7 Novembe ...
. The name was changed to Kildary on 1 May 1868. The station had a goods yard to its north west equipped with a 3 ton crane. The station was host to a
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in 1936 and possibly 1937. The station closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 13 June 1960.


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Disused railway stations in Ross and Cromarty Former Highland Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1864 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1960 1864 establishments in Scotland 1960 disestablishments in Scotland {{Highland-railstation-stub