Footbridge, Carrbridge Station

The footbridge, platform shelters, and station building at Carrbridge Station date from 1892 and were constructed as part of the Highland Railway’s direct line to Inverness. Carrbridge Station is the largest of the timber-clad station buildings built by the Highland Railway in the 1890s, and is one of only a small number that remain in operation.

The principal building is a two-platform through station with a single-storey, gabled, timber and brick structure on the down platform. The west (platform) elevation features a recessed central section with an awning supported by cast-iron columns and wooden brackets. To the right, a gabled section incorporates a slate-roofed canted-bay window, and to the left is a later timber signal cabin projection in a similar style. The end pavilions are slightly advanced with gables facing east (the road). Windows are irregularly spaced and have three panes with top hopper openings. Louvred ventilators are located in the upper parts of the rear gables. The roof is open eaves with prominent rafter ends.

The building has timber-framed windows and a grey slate roof. Chimney stacks are constructed of red and white brick with stone copes; the central stack has octagonal cans. A stack at the northwest end rises from an exposed brick chimney breast.

Platform shelters in a similar style are present on both the up and down sides, one being single-pitch roofed and timber-clad. A steel and cast-iron lattice-girder footbridge, typical of Highland Railway designs, provides crossing access.

The glazed outshot to the left gable originally housed signalling instruments and was added around 1950 by the newly formed British Rail (Scottish Region) to match the style of the timber-framed building. The cast-iron columned, timber bracketed awning and polychromatic brick stacks are characteristic of Highland Railways station buildings of the period.