Archaeology Notes

Event ID 654869

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO66SE 44 6876 6446

Goods Station [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1977.

(Location cited as NO 688 643). Craigo Station, opened c. 1850 by the Aberdeen Railway. Formerly a two-platform through station. The down-platform building survives, a single-storey rubble building with a large glazed panel in the middle of the platform frontage.

J R Hume 1977.

This intermediate station on the Perth - Kinnaber Junction - Aberdeen (main) line of the former Caledonian Rly was opened (by the Aberdeen Rly) on 1 November 1849. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 11 June 1956; the line remains open as part of the Edinburgh - Aberdeen main line.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 September 2000.

R V J Butt 1995.