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Alford Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Alford Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Alford Valley Railway; Grampian Transport Museum/ Railway Museum
Canmore ID 17542
Site Number NJ51NE 30
NGR NJ 57938 15903
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17542
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Alford
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Grampian Transport Museum/ Railway Museum. In restored station, built for Alford Valley Railway, 1859 (closed 1950). Single-platform station with seven-bay, single-storey, rubble building on terminal platform. Carriage and engine sheds beyond, latter three-bay with round-headed rail accesses and windows. (Alford Valley Railway now only 2ft-gauge
passenger line in Scotland.) Conveys something of the optimistic spirit of the Railway Age coupled with the rustic scale
of rural Aberdeenshire.
Alford Valley Railway, a railway of south central Aberdeenshire, deflects from the Great North of Scotland at Kintore, and runs 16.5 miles westward, by the stations of Kemnay, Monymusk, Tillyfourie and Whitehouse, to Alford village.
Authorised in 1856, and amalgamated with the Great North of Scotland in 1866. Its gradients are steep, the summit level on Tillyfourie Hill being 636 feet; and the journey occupies 65 minutes.
Groome
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NJ51NE 30.00 57938 15903
NJ51NE 30.01 NJ 5784 1593 Alford Station, Goods Shed
NJ51NE 30.02 NJ 5827 1581 Alford Station, Engine Shed
(Location cited as NJ 580 159). Alford Station. Opened 1859 by the Alford Valley Rly. (subsequently incorporated into the Great North of Scotland Rly). A single-platform terminal station with a long (7-bay), 1-storey rubble platform building.
J R Hume 1977.
This terminal station of the Alford branch of the Great North of Scotland Rly was opened on 25 March 1859 by the Alford Valley Rly. It was grouped into the London and North-Eastern Rly. and closed to regular passenger traffic (along with the branch line itself) on 2 January 1950.
G Daniels and L Dench 1980; R V J Butt 1995.
The Railway Museum of the Grampian Transport Museum occupies this restored station, and the Alford Valley Rly is now the only 2ft gauge passenger line in Scotland, conveying something of the optimistic spirit of the Railway Age coupled with the rustic scale of rural Aberdeenshire.
I Shepherd 1994.
(Newspaper reference cited).
NMRS, MS/712/50.
