Waiting Room, Carrbridge Station

The waiting room is part of Carrbridge Station, built in 1892 by the Highland Railway as part of a direct line to Inverness. It’s a two-platform station with a single-storey, timber and brick principal building on the down platform.

The western (platform) elevation features a recessed central section with an awning supported by cast-iron columns and wooden brackets. A gabled section is advanced to the right, featuring a slate-roofed canted-bay window, while the left gable includes a later timber signal cabin projection built to match the original style. End pavilions are slightly advanced with gables facing east towards the road. Windows are irregularly spaced and have three panes, with a top hopper opening. Louvred ventilators are located in the upper parts of the rear gables. The roof is open eaved with prominent rafter ends.

Timber-framed windows are present, and the roof is covered with grey slate. Chimney stacks are constructed of red and white brick, topped with stone copes; the central stack has an octagonal design. A stack at the northwest end rises from an exposed brick chimney breast.

There's a single-pitch, timber-clad platform shelter on the up side and another similar building on the down platform. A steel and cast-iron lattice-girder footbridge, representative of standard Highland Railway designs, connects the platforms.

Carrbridge Station, the largest of the Highland Railway’s timber-clad station buildings from the 1890s, is one of the few still in operation. The cast-iron columned, timber-bracketed awning and polychromatic brick stacks are typical of Highland Railway station buildings from that era. A glazed outshot to the left gable, originally housing signalling instruments, was added around 1950 by British Rail (Scottish Region) in a style matching the original building.