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Aboyne Station

Railway Station (19th Century)

Site Name Aboyne Station

Classification Railway Station (19th Century)

Canmore ID 35296

Site Number NO59NW 27

NGR NO 5300 9862

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Aboyne And Glentanar
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Kincardine And Deeside
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NO59NW 27.00 5300 9862

NO59NW 27.01 5300 9862 Goods Shed

(Location cited as NO 539 086). Aboyne Station. Opened 1859 by the Aboyne Extension Rly. and rebuilt c. 1900. A spectacular 2-platform through station with a massive granite building on the up platform. This is a single-storey structure, with corner 'pepper-pot' turrets and a central entrance with an awning. On both up and down platforms there are substantial steel-framed glazed awnings supported on cast-iron columns. A covered footbridge links the platforms. In the goods yard is a large rubble shed. Railway closed and lifted.

J R Hume 1977.

This intermediate station on the Aberdeen-Ballater ('Deeside') branch of the former Great North of Scotland Rly was opened (by the Deeside Extension Rly.) on 2 December 1859. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 28 February 1966.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 June 2000.

R V J Butt 1995.

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