Turriff Station
Railway Station (19th Century), Signal Box (19th Century)
Site Name Turriff Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century), Signal Box (19th Century)
Canmore ID 120308
Site Number NJ74NW 50
NGR NJ 7245 4935
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/120308
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Turriff
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ74SW 50 7245 4935
Goods Sta [NAT]
OS 1:10,560 map, 1970.
This intermediate station on the Macduff branch of the (former) Great North of Scotland Rly. was opened on 5 September 1857 (by the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction Rly); it closed to regular passenger traffic on 1 October 1951.
R V J Butt 1995.
The station, signal box and goods yard have now been demolished and all traces removed during road improvements to the A947. The station finally closed to freight traffic in January 1966, the railway having been truncated at this point since 1962.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), July 2004
