Kinbrace

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Kinbrace
Sutherland
Kinbrace Church - geograph.org.uk - 1559488.jpg
Kinbrace Church
Location
Grid reference: NC862317
Location: 58°15’36"N, 3°56’27"W
Data
Post town: Kinbrace
Postcode: KW11
Local Government
Council: Highland
Parliamentary
constituency:
Caithness, Sutherland
and Easter Ross

Kinbrace is a small village in Sutherland, close to the county's east coast, sitting at the junction of the A897 and B871 roads. It is seventeen miles from Helmsdale by road. The village has a station on the Far North Line (also named 'Kinbrace'), and a primary school.[1]

Few people live in the village with the population standing at 828,[2][3] although this statistic covers a much larger area than Kinbrace itself.

Railway station

Kinbrace Station

Kinbrace railway station is a railway station serving the village of Kinbrace in the Highland council area in the north of Scotland. It is located on the Far North Line. Trains stop on request. The station is 118 miles from Inverness, and has a single platform which is long enough for a four-coach train.

Helmsdale had been linked to Inverness by rail in 1870. The Sutherland and Caithness Railway was formed in 1871 to carry the railway onward to Thurso and Wick, by a route which took it through Strath Ullie. The line opened on 28 July 1874 and included a station at Kinbrace.

References

  1. Helmsdale Community: Kinbrace
  2. Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics, data zone S01003968
  3. Population estimate is based on the 2001 Census