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Easter Ross

Platform 1864

A restaurant and bar in the old railway station at Tain, still beside the platform, serving hearty food and local seafood from breakfast into the evening.

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Tain's railway station is still a working station, but the old stone and timber station building beside the platform has become a restaurant and bar.

Visited and photographed by Simon Hird

Its owner, Graham, trained as a chef from a young age and made the conversion his passion project. The long dining room keeps the old wooden floors and stone walls, with button-backed banquettes along the sides; the bar is clad in patterned tiles, with barrel tables and a leather sofa by a living wall of greenery lit with neon.

The cooking is hearty and varied: smash burgers, slow-braised beef, local seafood and sticky toffee pudding. It opens every day from breakfast time into the evening, and it is popular, so book a table even midweek. Dogs are welcome.

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Before you go

Open every day from 10am until 10pm, or midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.

Book a table: it fills up, even midweek. Dogs are welcome.

Where
Tain station, Station Road, IV19 1JA.
Hours
From 10am daily.
Book
01862 894181.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
10am–10pm
Tuesday
10am–10pm
Wednesday
10am–10pm
Thursday
10am–10pm
Friday
10am–midnight
Saturday
10am–midnight
Sunday
10am–10pm

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A neon 'Platform 1864' sign glows amid ferns and red anthurium blooms on a living wall.
Did you know

A chef's own project.

The owner trained as a chef from a young age and turned the old station into his passion project.

A neon 'Platform 1864' sign glows against a living wall above a brown leather sofa.
Did you know

Still by the platform.

The restaurant stands beside the working platform of Tain station.

Hidden Scotland

From our guide to Easter Ross

Trains still stop at Tain, but the old stone and timber station building beside the platform is now a restaurant and bar. The local chef Graham Rooney opened it in 2015, and the name was chosen in a competition at a local school. The long dining room keeps its wooden floors and stone walls, and the bar is clad in patterned tiles, with barrel tables and a wall of greenery. The cooking is hearty, from smash burgers and slow-braised beef to local seafood and sticky toffee pudding. It is popular, so book ahead. Dogs are welcome.

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Hidden Scotland

From our guide to Ross and Cromarty

Tain's railway station still has trains, but its old stone and timber station building has become a restaurant and bar. The long dining room keeps the original wooden floors and stone walls, with button-backed banquettes along the sides. The bar is clad in patterned tiles, with barrel tables and a living wall of greenery. The cooking is hearty and varied, from smash burgers and slow-braised beef to local seafood and sticky toffee pudding. It serves from breakfast into the evening, and it is popular, so book a table even midweek. Dogs are welcome.

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Where it is

At Tain railway station, on Station Road by the platform, IV19 1JA.

Close byTain.
  1. Restaurant tables laid with cutlery beside large windows overlooking the streetGreens RestaurantUnder a mile 2 min by road
  2. Ornate lamppost beside a gravel path leading to a stone churchTain MuseumSt Duthac and the pilgrims.Under a mile 2 min by road
  3. Weathered standing stone against a sandstone wall behind green railingsArdjachie StoneA sandstone slab found by local farmers in the 1960s, now at the entrance to the Tain MuseumUnder a mile 2 min by road
  4. Tain Golf ClubTain Golf ClubLinks golf on the firth.Under a mile 4 min by road
  5. Copper stills line the Glenmorangie Distillery still house in rowsGlenmorangie DistilleryTall stills just outside the town.2 miles 5 min by road
  6. Balblair DistilleryBalblair DistilleryA distillery at Edderton on the Dornoch Firth, making whisky since 1790, with tours of its stone buildings and banded red-brick chimney.6 miles 10 min by road
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White single-storey building with "Inver Inn" lettering under a dark skyRestaurantsInver Inn6.3 miles
Timber-clad barn buildings with covered walkway and coloured flags along the rooflineShoppingAnta7.1 miles
AttractionsCarnegie Links at Skibo Castle7.5 miles
Wooded headland juts into a wide loch beneath rolling grey hillsAttractionsStruie Hill Viewpoint7.9 miles
Stone building with slate roof and chimneys behind a low white wallRestaurantsBalintore Inn8.0 miles
Bronze mermaid statue perched on a rock along the shorelineAttractionsMermaid of the North8.1 miles
Dune grass frames a curved sandy beach with scattered coastal housesAttractionsShandwick Beach8.5 miles

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