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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 777090
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/777090
NJ50SW 27 from NJ 5420 0000 to NJ 5500 0007
The dismantled Aboyne Extension railway is visible on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1994). This extension to the Deeside Railway, later part of the Great North of Scotland Railway network, was opened on 2 December 1859, extending from Banchory to Aboyne. The line was closed to regular passenger traffic on 2 December 1966.
See also NJ50SE 56.
Information from RCAHMS (KB) 23 November 1998.
R V Butt 1995; J Thomas and D Turnock 1989.
