Archaeology Notes
Event ID 671776
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NJ90NW 136.00 94152 05889
NJ90NW 136.01 NJ c. 9410 0587 Aberdeen Joint Station, Aberdeen Centre signal box
NJ90NW 136.02 NJ 94066 05934 Aberdeen Guild Street Bridge
For adjacent Guild Street station and railway offices, see NJ90NW 209.
For (associated) Station Hotel at 74-8 Guild Street (NJ 941 060), see NJ90NW 317.
Joint Station [NAT]
OS (GIS) AIB, May 2006.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Aberdeen, Railway Station. (Joint Passenger)
Engineer: J. Lowson - reconstruction 1898-1912
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Register House. BR/LIB(S)/6 - 130 - 2.1/4 X 2.1/4 slides & notes on reconstruction of station.
Aberdeen, Railway Scheme.
Architect: Archibald Simpson projected scheme never carried out.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
(Location cited as NJ 942 058). Aberdeen Joint Station. Rebuilt 1913-20 by the Caledonian and Great North of Scotland Rlys. The last major Scottish railway station to be built. Formerly a 12-platform through and terminal station with a handsome classical 5-bay, 2-storey frontage. The booking hall has a pleasing curved, wood-panelled range of counters and unusual curved roof trusses. The main concourse has a ridged overall roof with curved roof trusses, and a well-designed train indicator board comparable with that at Glasgow Central (NS56NE 77.00). The platforms have steel-framed individual awnings, supported on cast-iron columns; those at the N end have been removed and some platforms closed.
J R Hume 1977.
The new travel centre opened in 1978 replacing the old panelled booking office and leaving some old woodwork still to be seen in the ladies waiting room. A further refit took place in the mid-1980's; this included marble panelling, terrazo flooring and a relocation of the station bookstall.
B Williams 1988.
This station was opened on 4 November 1867, replacing Aberdeen, Guild Street (NJ90NW 209) and Aberdeen, Ferryhill (NJ90NW 334). It was renamed Aberdeen by British Railways in 1952, and remains in regular use by passenger traffic.
R V J Butt 1995.
(Location cited as NJ 942 058). This station was modernised in the 1980s.
(Newspaper reference cited).
NMRS, MS/712/83.
Prior to the completion of renovations to Aberdeen Joint Station, RCAHMS carried out a full and extensive photographic survey, in May 1999. This included views within the station, exterior shots, and the booking hall roof, then hidden by a false ceiling.
Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), April 1999.
Air photographs. Aberdeen railway station and the Denburn area: AAS/00/08/CT.
NMRS, MS/712/100.
