Buckie, Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Buckie, Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Buckie Station (Great North Of Scotland Railway)
Canmore ID 133264
Site Number NJ46NW 17
NGR NJ 4286 6578
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/133264
- Council Moray
- Parish Rathven
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Banffshire
NJ46NW 17 4286 6578
Not to be confused with the Highland Rly station at Buckie (NJ 4278 6541) or with Buckpool (formerly Nether Buckie) Station (NJ 4125 6520), for which see NJ46NW 11.00 and NJ46NW 18 respectively.
(Location cited as NJ 429 658). Buckie Station, opened 1886 by the Great North of Scotland Rly. Formerly a two-platform through station with the main offices on the up platform through station, with the main offices on the up platform in a 2-storey, 11-bay, coursed-rubble building, with access to the platform at first floor level. On the down platform is a long single-storey wooden shelter. Disused. The platforms are linked by a lattice-girder footbridge with stone stairs.
J R Hume 1977.
This intermediate station on the Elgin - Cairnie Junction ('Moray Firth coast') line of the former Great North of Scotland Rly. was opened on 1 May 1886 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 December 1998.
R V J Butt 1995.
