Pitlochry station on Station Road: ticket office hours, no ticket machines, toilets, step-free category B1, the platform bookshop and the way into town.
Pitlochry station is on Station Road, just off Atholl Road in the middle of the town, and it is a stop on the Highland Main Line between Perth and Inverness. ScotRail manages it. The trains themselves are on the route pages: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Inverness, Dundee, Aberdeen, and London, which covers LNER and the Caledonian Sleeper.
There are two platforms. Platform 1 is the side with the stone station building, and almost everything a visitor needs is there: the ticket office, the concourse waiting room, the toilets and the bookshop. National Rail notes that the platforms are level with the main entrance, which opens onto Station Road. Platform 2 is across the tracks, linked by a footbridge with stairs, and it has a waiting room of its own. Both platforms have open-sided shelters with seating, a help point and an information screen.
From the building, Station Road leads up to Atholl Road, Pitlochry’s main street of shops, cafés and hotels. It is a short walk, and the time and distance are in the panel above.
National Rail records “no taxi provision” here, so there is no rank to find on arrival. If you need a taxi from a late train, book it before you set off rather than counting on one being free in a town this size.
You will not need a bus to reach the centre. For buses onward to the villages, National Rail points to Traveline Scotland rather than listing routes. When the line is closed for engineering work, replacement buses use the stop at the coach park on Station Road.
Anyone meeting you by car has two drop-off and pick-up points on Station Road, by the west and centre entrances, each with room for one vehicle at a time.
The ticket office is on platform 1. On 27 October 2026 National Rail listed it as open Monday to Saturday from 08:05 to 17:30 and Sunday from 10:40 to 17:20; staff help runs a little later, to 18:30 Monday to Saturday and 18:20 on Sunday. There are no ticket machines at all, so for a train before the office opens or after it shuts, buy your ticket online before you reach the station.
The toilets are in the waiting room on platform 1 and are open during ticket office hours. National Rail marks an accessible toilet, a Changing Places toilet and baby changing as unavailable. Both waiting rooms are heated; the one on the concourse has automatic doors, the one on platform 2 has doors you open by hand. There are no refreshments and no public Wi-Fi, but Atholl Road is close.
The Pitlochry Station Bookshop on platform 1 is a reason to come early for the train. Volunteers run it in premises ScotRail gives free of charge, selling donated books, most of them at £1, and the money goes to six charities. Its own site gives Monday to Saturday opening, 9.30 to 4.00 from November to March and 9.00 to 4.30 from April to October, and it is open to everyone, not only passengers.
National Rail puts Pitlochry in step-free category B1, which it defines as “step-free access to all platforms which may be accessed via long or steep ramps or via streets”. Its notes describe a ramp to platform 2, a ramp at the end of the northbound platform and the footbridge with stairs between the two. There are no lifts. Boarding ramps are kept at the station, and wheelchairs or mobility buggies are available to help passengers. National Rail also asks for care when getting on or off towards the middle of both platforms, where the gap between platform and train may be larger.
Assistance can be booked through Passenger Assist: an hour ahead for ScotRail trains and two hours ahead for other operators. The meeting point is on platform 1 by the information screen pole, and if the station is unstaffed, go straight to the platform your train leaves from.
ScotRail’s Station Car Park is small: National Rail counts 12 spaces, and lists four accessible bays reached via Station Road. Blue Badge holders park free in the Blue Badge bays; everyone else should check the tariff board for the current charge. The town’s own car parks are covered in parking in Pitlochry.
There is bicycle storage at the station, and National Rail points cyclists to Escape Route, a cycle shop on Atholl Road that hires bikes.
Each route has its own page with the day's trains, the changes and a link to times and fares.