Archaeology Notes

Event ID 692134

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO59NW 27.00 5300 9862

NO59NW 27.01 5300 9862 Goods Shed

(Location cited as NO 539 086). Aboyne Station. Opened 1859 by the Aboyne Extension Rly. and rebuilt c. 1900. A spectacular 2-platform through station with a massive granite building on the up platform. This is a single-storey structure, with corner 'pepper-pot' turrets and a central entrance with an awning. On both up and down platforms there are substantial steel-framed glazed awnings supported on cast-iron columns. A covered footbridge links the platforms. In the goods yard is a large rubble shed. Railway closed and lifted.

J R Hume 1977.

This intermediate station on the Aberdeen-Ballater ('Deeside') branch of the former Great North of Scotland Rly was opened (by the Deeside Extension Rly.) on 2 December 1859. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 28 February 1966.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 June 2000.

R V J Butt 1995.