Archaeology Notes

Event ID 840557

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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This intermediate station on the Great North of Scotland Rly. branch line from Aberdeen (Ferryhill Junc.) to Ballater ('the Deeside branch') was opened on 8 September 1853 by the Deeside Rly; it was grouped into the London and North-Eastern Rly. and closed (with the branch as a whole) on 28 February 1966.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 October 2001.

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

Peterculter railway station, which was an intermediate station on the Great North of Scotland Railway branch line from Aberdeen to Ballater, was closed in 1966, and only the long east-bound platform and the station name-board at its W end are now visible. The buildings that once stood on the platform have been removed, as has the west-bound platform. The abutments and ramps of a road bridge that formerly crossed the line close to the W end of the station are still in good condition and the track-bed is now used as a public footpath.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ARG), 28 July 2003.