Archaeology Notes

Event ID 871617

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ06SE 81 03890 64437 to 07401 61340

For Company Headquarters buildings, see NJ06SW 98 and NJ06SW 100.

Little survives of the The Findhorn branch railway, which is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Elginshire 1873, sheet vi), and annotated as 'Findhorn Railway (disused). The course of the railway ran in the northwesterly direction from the original Kinloss Station (NJ 07401 61340), to a point at the southern end of Findhorn village. The terminus station and Company offices were situated at NH 03952 64395.

The Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey describes the railway as' A single line of railway extending from Kinloss Station on the Highland Railway to the village of Findhorn. It is three miles in length, at present disused. Property of the Findhorn Railway Company. There is no electric telegraph communications between Kinloss and the village of Findhorn' (Name Book 1870).

Much of the railway's course was demolished when Kinloss Airfield was built in 1938-1939.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), August 2009.