Fordoun Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Fordoun Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Canmore ID 36424
Site Number NO77NE 47
NGR NO 7502 7583
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36424
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fordoun
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO77NE 47 7502 7583
(Location cited as NO 750 759). Fordoun Station, opened c. 1849 by the Aberdeen Rly. Formerly a two-platform through station with the main offices on the up platform in a one-storey and attic rubble building on an L-plan, with an awning in the the angle of the L. There is a single-storey goods shed, also on the up side.
J R Hume 1977.
This intermediate station on the Perth-Kinnaber Junction-Aberdeen) main line if the former Caledonian Rly was opened (by the Aberdeen Rly) on 1 November 1849. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 11 June 1956 but the line itself remains in passenger use.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 September 2000.
R V J Butt 1995.
