Strathspey Railway

The Strathspey Railway aim to preserve "Highland Railway Heritage" in Scotland. After much renovation and restoration, the railway have been operating trains since 1978. They have extended the line twice, once into Aviemore mainline station in 1998 (previously they had ran to a "Speyside station", only accessing the mainline connection when the privatised “Railtrack PLC” consented to lease them the station buildings), and again to Broomhill in 2002. The railway have aspirations to extend further to Grantown-on-Spey in the future.

Although mainly a steam railway, the railway has had use for one DMU set over the years. A Class 107 set operated for many years, supplimented by a Class 114 trailer car, but since 2005, a Class 117 has been used.

Fortunes for the whole DMU fleet improved in 2019 with the opening of a storage shed able to house both the operational set and the various vehicles in storage awaiting restoration. The 2020's saw the old Class 107 fleet, which had been in storage for a long time, thinned out with vehicle sales and movements away.

At the time of writing the railway's Class 117 set is the main set, and sees use on selected days, particularly in the winter months such as February.