Archaeology Notes

Event ID 789388

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ90NW 1097.00 9322 0778

Kittybrewster Station (disused) [NAT]

OS 1:1250 map, 1974.

NJ90NW 1097.01 NJ 9311 0786 Engine shed (Motive power depot)

For (successor) Waterloo station, see NJ90NW 322.

For former house of Elmbank (NJ 9337 0768), see NJ90NW 1744.

For former cottage of Sunnyside (NJ 9329 0767, within the area of the sidings), see NJ90NW 1745.

This intermediate station on the Aberdeen-Dyce-Keith (main) line of the former Great North of Scotland Rly was opened by that company in 4 November 1867. It replaced an earlier station of the same name (which itself opened in April 1856) on the extension of the line through the Denburn valley into the Joint Station (NJ90NW 136.00) at Aberdeen.

This station closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968; the line remains in regular use.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 March 2003.

R V J Butt 1995.