Archaeology Notes

Event ID 799585

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ73SW 39 7201 3013 and 7198 3013

Station House [NAT] (at NJ 7198 3013)

OS 1:10,000 map, 1984.

(Cited as Wartle Station). This station is situated 0.7km S of the village of Meikle Wartle (NJ73SW 58), which it evidently served. An intermediate station on the Inveramsay - Macduff branch line of the former Great North of Scotland Rly, it was opened (by the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction Rly) on 5 August 1857. It closed to regular passenger traffic (with the line as a whole) on 1 October 1951.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 November 2000.

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

The station buildings at Wartle have been removed and a modern bungalow now occupies the site.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 5 May 1999.