Editing Highland Main Line (section)

== Stations and services ==
As of 2020, there are stations on the line as follows:

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! Places served !! All trains<br>stop?!! [[Ordnance Survey]]<br>[[British national grid reference system|grid reference]]!!Notes
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| [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]] ||Yes|| {{gbmappingsmall|NO112230}}
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| [[Dunkeld]] and [[Birnam, Perth and Kinross|Birnam]]||No || {{gbmappingsmall|NO030417}} || Shared station
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| [[Pitlochry]] ||Yes|| {{gbmappingsmall|NN937580}}
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| [[Blair Atholl]]||No || {{gbmappingsmall|NN870653}} 
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| [[Dalwhinnie]]||No || {{gbmappingsmall|NN634848}}
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| [[Newtonmore]]||No || {{gbmappingsmall|NN715984}}
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| [[Kingussie]] ||Yes|| {{gbmappingsmall|NH756003}}
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| [[Aviemore]]||Yes || {{gbmappingsmall|NH895123}}|| Connection with [[Strathspey Railway (preserved)|Strathspey Railway]]
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| [[Carrbridge]]||No || {{gbmappingsmall|NH899224}}
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| [[Inverness]]||Yes || {{gbmappingsmall|NH667454}}
|}

Services on the line are provided by [[ScotRail]] and [[London North Eastern Railway]]. A roughly two-hourly ScotRail service operates between [[Perth railway station, Scotland|Perth]] and [[Inverness railway station|Inverness]] throughout the day, On weekdays and Saturday's, There is 11 services in total in each direction, all running from/to either {{Stnlnk|Glasgow Queen Street}} (via [[Stirling railway station (Scotland)|Stirling]]) or {{Stnlnk|Edinburgh Waverley}} (via [[Kirkcaldy railway station|Kirkcaldy]]). The [[London North Eastern Railway]] service is entitled the ''[[Highland Chieftain]]''; it departs Inverness at 08:00 and runs to [[London King's Cross railway station|London King's Cross]] via the [[East Coast Main Line]], arriving in London at 16:00. The return working leaves London at 12:00 and reaches Inverness at 20:00. On Sunday's there is 7 trains each way, The journey time between Perth and Inverness takes between 2 hours and 2 hours and 20 minutes depending on the calling pattern and if the train is booked to be looped at any passing places.

The ''[[Caledonian Sleeper]]'' travels overnight between Inverness and [[Euston railway station|London Euston]] via the [[West Coast Main Line]]. The southbound train joins portions from [[Aberdeen railway station|Aberdeen]] and [[Fort William railway station|Fort William]] at Edinburgh Waverley, and similarly the northbound train divides there. South of Edinburgh it forms the longest [[locomotive]]-hauled passenger train in the United Kingdom, with 16 coaches. 

All trains between Perth and Inverness call at [[Pitlochry railway station|Pitlochry]], [[Kingussie railway station|Kingussie]] and [[Aviemore railway station|Aviemore]]. Most ScotRail services call at [[Dunkeld & Birnam railway station|Dunkeld & Birnam]] (9 north and 10 south) and at [[Blair Atholl railway station|Blair Atholl]] (8 north and 6 south), with the stations at [[Dalwhinnie railway station|Dalwhinnie]] (5 each way), [[Newtonmore railway station|Newtonmore(6 each way)]] and [[Carrbridge railway station|Carrbridge]](6 each way) being served less often. On Sundays, a couple of services continue through to [[Elgin railway station|Elgin]], calling at [[Nairn railway station|Nairn]] and [[Forres railway station|Forres]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.scotrail.co.uk/sites/default/files/assets/download_ct/edinburgh_glasgow_-_inverness_0.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=5 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418043153/http://www.scotrail.co.uk/sites/default/files/assets/download_ct/edinburgh_glasgow_-_inverness_0.pdf |archive-date=18 April 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

{{wide image|Culloden Viaduct01 2007-08-22.jpg|900px|Panoramic view of the Highland Line [[Culloden Viaduct]] with a [[First ScotRail]] train on it}}