Archaeology Notes

Event ID 761912

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ52NE 47.00 5537 2933

NJ52NE 47.01 5539 2934 Signal Box

Station (disused) [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1972.

(Location cited as NJ 553 293). Kennethmont Station. Opened 1854 by the Great North of Scotland Rly. Formerly a 2-platform through station. The single-storey wooden down-platform building, of typical GNoSR pattern, survives.

J R Hume 1977.

This intermediate station on the Great North of Scotland Rly portion of the Aberdeen-Keith-Inverness line of the (former) Great North of Scotland and Highland Rlys was opened on 20 September 1854 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968. The line itself remains in regular use by passenger traffic.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 January 1997.

G Daniels and L Dench 1980; R V J Butt 1995.