Appendix E Bus and Rail Services

Local Bus Services

Operating Bus Travel on the On-line Location Route Frequency Company Number A96 bus Stop Balloch- Every 10 Between No stops on Culloden- minutes Inverness and A96 Smithon- throughout the Culloden. mainline. StageCoach Inverness 5 City-New day. Highlands Hilton-Milton- Milton of Leys Inverness- Approximately Whole route Stops EB Inverness every 30 except and WB on StageCoach Airport-Nairn- minutes during between A96 Moray 11 Bluebird Auldearn- the day until Inverness mainline. Forres-Elgin 7pm. Airport and Nairn Inverness- Approximately Between Elgin EB stops on Ardersier- every hour and A96 StageCoach Nairn until 6pm. Fochabers mainline. Moray 15 Highlands Note: Not all buses drive whole route. Elgin - Forres Approximately At Elgin Stops EB every two and WB on Moray StageCoach 31 hours until A96 at 6pm. Elgin. Elgin - Approximately Between Elgin Stops EB Kingston every two and and WB on hours between Lhanbryde A96 Moray StageCoach 34 7am and 7pm. between Elgin and Lhanbryde Aberdeen- Approximately Between Elgin Stops EB Turiff- every 30 and and WB StageCoach Macduff- minutes. Fochabers along Moray & 35 Aberdeenshire Bluebird Banff-Buckie- only. section of Fochaber- A96 route. Elgin Aberdeen- Approximately Whole route Stops EB Inverurie- every 30 except at and WB Huntly-Elgin- minutes during Lhanbyrde, along whole Stage Coach Nairn- the day until Fochabers, A96 route. Aberdeenshire 10, X10 Bluebird Inverness 7pm. Hourly Huntly, between Elgin Inverurie and and Inverness Port Elphinstone Aberdeenshire StageCoach 37 Aberdeen- At least every Whole route Stops EB

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Bluebird ARI- 20 minutes except at and WB on Blackburn- throughout the Inverurie, A96 Kintore- day. Hourly Kintore and mainline. Inverurie after 7pm. Blackburn Aberdeen – Approximately Between Stops EB Aberdeenshire StageCoach 220 / 420 Kemnay – every hour. Aberdeen and and WB on Alford Kintore A96. Oldmeldrum Once daily in Between Stops EB – Westhill – each direction. Kintore and and WB Bains Kingswells – Blackburn between Aberdeenshire 777 Coaches Aberdeen Kintore and Airport - Blackburn. Dyce

Note: These are only the main bus services that run within the A96 corridor and is not exhaustive of all bus services.

Local Rail Services

Operating Location Route Frequency Company Aberdeen to Inverness Hourly between 7am and 10am. Every two hours Inverness ScotRail between 10am and 8pm. Every 3 hours on a Sunday. Aberdeen to Inverness Hourly between 7am and 10am. Every two hours Nairn ScotRail between 10am and 8pm. Every 3 hours on a Sunday. Aberdeen to Inverness Hourly between 7am and 10am. Every two hours Forres ScotRail between 10am and 8pm. Every 3 hours on a Sunday. Aberdeen to Inverness Hourly between 7am and 10am. Every two hours Elgin ScotRail between 10am and 8pm. Every 3 hours on a Sunday. Aberdeen to Inverness Hourly between 7am and 10am. Every two hours Keith ScotRail between 10am and 8pm. Every 3 hours on a Sunday. Aberdeen to Inverness Hourly between 7am and 10am. Every two hours Huntly ScotRail between 10am and 8pm. Every 3 hours on a Sunday. Aberdeen to Inverness Hourly between 7am and 10am. Every two hours Insch ScotRail between 10am and 8pm. Every 3 hours on a Sunday. Aberdeen to Inverness Every 30 minutes between 6am and 9am. Then every 1 Inverurie ScotRail hour and 30 minutes. Frequency varies on Sundays. Aberdeen to Inverness Every 30 minutes between 6am and 9am. Then every 1 Dyce ScotRail hour and 30 minutes. Frequency varies on Sundays. Aberdeen to Inverness Every 30 minutes between 6am and 9am. Then every 1 Aberdeen ScotRail hour and 30 minutes. Frequency varies on Sundays.

Note: Not all trains travel the whole route with some trains only travelling between Inverurie and Aberdeen.

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