Archaeology Notes

Event ID 664687

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ26SW 103.00 22052 62237

NJ26SW 103.01 NJ 22329 62335 Engine shed

NJ26SW 103.02 NJ 22115 62273 Goods shed

NJ26SW 103.03 NJ 22019 62276 Weighbridge

For present (formerly Highland Rly.) Elgin Station (NJ 2183 6219), see NJ26SW 102.

(Location cited as NJ 221 622). Elgin Station, rebuilt 1902 by the Great North of Scotland Rly. An elaborate through and terminal station with the main offices on the down side in a two-storey and attic ashlar block, basically on an H plan, with wings at both ends. Now closed to passengers, though the goods yard, with wooden shed, is still in use.

J R Hume 1977.

This station was opened as the terminal station of the Morayshire Rly. (serving branches along the Moray coast) on 10 August 1852. It was incorporated into the Great North of Scotland Rly. and closed to regular passenger traffic at an unspecified date.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 October 2000.

R V J Butt 1995.