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Keith Town Station
Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Keith Town Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Keith (Town) Station; Girse Station; Earlsmill Station; Keith Station
Canmore ID 17372
Site Number NJ45SW 26
NGR NJ 4289 5077
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17372
- Council Moray
- Parish Keith
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Banffshire
NJ45SW 26 4289 5077
Not to be confused with Keith Junction Station (NJ 430 516), for which see NJ45SW 12.
(Location cited as NJ 429 507). Keith (Town) Station, opened 1862 by the Keith and Dufftown Rly. A single-platform through station, with a single-storey wooden platform building, and a detached booking office at a higher level.
J R Hume 1977.
This station was an intermediate station which opened from Craigellachie on 21 February 1862 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968. The station was known as Earlsmill station until 1897.
J Thomas and D Turnock 1989.
This intermediate station on the Craigellachie - Keith Junction line of the former Great North of Scotland Rly was opened (as Earlsmill Station) by the Keith and Dufftown Rly on 21 February 1862. It was renamed Keith Town Station on 1 May 1897 and closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 October 2000.
R V J Butt 1995.
