Laurencekirk, Station Road, Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Laurencekirk, Station Road, Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Laurencekirk Station
Canmore ID 36552
Site Number NO77SW 40
NGR NO 71702 71812
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36552
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Laurencekirk
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO77SW 40.00 71702 71812
NO77SW 40.01 NO 71999 72063 Railway Signal Box
Station [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1987.
This intermediate station on the Perth - Kinnaber Junction - Aberdeen (main) line of the former Caledonian Railway was opened on 1 November 1849 (by the Aberdeen Rly.) and closed to regular passenger traffic on 4 September 1967. The line itself remains in regular use by passenger traffic.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 October 2000.
R V J Butt 1995.
Following reconstruction, this station reopened to regular passenger traffic on 18 May 2009. RCAHMS surveyed the station in 2005 prior to reconstruction.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 May 2009.
Publication Account (2013)
Opened in 1849 by the Aberdeen Railway, rebuilt c1910 by Caledonian Railway, and closed in 1967. After a 50 year period when no train stopped, investment by the Railway Heritage Trust and Scotrail has seen the waiting room converted to small business units and trains do now stop again, since 2009, their numbers (86,162) twice the predicted figure. Steel canopy between bay windows. The road bridge over the line is ribbed, as are most over-bridges south of here.
M Watson, 2013
