Archaeology Notes

Event ID 770195

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ53NW 38 53529 39625

Huntly Station [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, May 2010.

(Location cited as NJ 535 396). Opened 1854 by the Great North of Scotland Rly, engineer Alexander Gibb. A 2-platform through station with the main offices on the down platform. There is an interesting and unusual wooden roof, with trusses supporting awning over both platforms.

J R Hume 1977.

This intermediate station on the Aberdeen-Inverness (main) line of the (former) Great North of Scotland Rly. was opened on 20 September 1854 and remains in regular use by passenger traffic.

R V J Butt 1995.

This railway station has been modernised. A late 20th century building has replaced the original station offices.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), July 2004