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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 692134
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/692134
NO59NW 27.00 5300 9862
NO59NW 27.01 5300 9862 Goods Shed
(Location cited as NO 539 086). Aboyne Station. Opened 1859 by the Aboyne Extension Rly. and rebuilt c. 1900. A spectacular 2-platform through station with a massive granite building on the up platform. This is a single-storey structure, with corner 'pepper-pot' turrets and a central entrance with an awning. On both up and down platforms there are substantial steel-framed glazed awnings supported on cast-iron columns. A covered footbridge links the platforms. In the goods yard is a large rubble shed. Railway closed and lifted.
J R Hume 1977.
This intermediate station on the Aberdeen-Ballater ('Deeside') branch of the former Great North of Scotland Rly was opened (by the Deeside Extension Rly.) on 2 December 1859. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 28 February 1966.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 June 2000.
R V J Butt 1995.
