Publication Account

Date 2007

Event ID 1019592

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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The station belonged to theStrathspey Railway, later the GNSR, while Grantown-on-Spey West Station was on the Highland Railway Company line. The station was rebuilt at some time between 1866 and 1900 after a fire destroyed its timber buildings. The new station building on the north or up platform was set further back on the platform than the original. In the case of Grantown East, the up line was that going to London via Craigellachie, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Additional buildings included a new signal box and new sidings, which were added to the north of the now demolished goods shed. The main station building and the platforms survive, along with a row of railway cottages, near the public road to Ballater. All the other structures have been levelled. The base of the footbridge is still visible as well as the GNSR kissing gate. The station building is a standard GNSR stone and wood structure, though with some modifications and the addition of a clock. Grantown-on-Spey East Station was always more popular with the inhabitants of Grantown because it gave better and more direct connections to Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London rather than the rival Highland Railway Company’s West Station with its connections to Euston via Boat of Garten, Aviemore and Glasgow.The drawing of the station buildings was undertaken during the Braes of Abernethy survey following their recognition as a potential ‘threatened building’.

Information from ‘Commissioners’ Field Meeting 2007'.