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Grantown-on-spey, East Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Grantown-on-spey, East Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Great North Of Scotland Railway; Grantown Station (East)
Canmore ID 111461
Site Number NJ02NW 97
NGR NJ 0385 2616
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/111461
- Council Highland
- Parish Abernethy And Kincardine
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NJ02NW 97 0385 2616
Not to be confused with (Highland Rly) West Station (NJ 0240 2685), for which see NJ02NW 96.
Not to be confused with the Caledonian Railway Station of the same name in Morayshire (NJ02NW 96, NJ024 270).
Opened 1.7.1863 (Strathspey Railway); closed 18.10.1965.
Project (March 2007)
Detailed measured survey was undertaken in the Braes of Abernethy, Highland, by RCAHMS over the course of one week in March 2007. The archaeological and architectural monuments recorded were identified as worthy of further attention during a survey undertaken in 2006 (see Project Event 555817). The survey was designed to record a representative sample of the sites recorded in 2006, particularly those that were otherwise under-represented in then National Monuments Record of Scotland (now the National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE)). The Pictish barrow cemetery at Pityoulish is situated outside the area of the original survey, but the opportunity to record it in detail for the first time was thought to be too good a chance to miss. Accordingly two parts of the site were recorded – the group of four ditched mounds at the NE end (Canmore ID 15389) and a solitary kerbed cairn 230m to the SW (Canmore ID 15413).
Information from HES Survey and Recording (JRS) 18 April 2018.
Publication Account (2007)
The station belonged to theStrathspey Railway, later the GNSR, while Grantown-on-Spey West Station was on the Highland Railway Company line. The station was rebuilt at some time between 1866 and 1900 after a fire destroyed its timber buildings. The new station building on the north or up platform was set further back on the platform than the original. In the case of Grantown East, the up line was that going to London via Craigellachie, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Additional buildings included a new signal box and new sidings, which were added to the north of the now demolished goods shed. The main station building and the platforms survive, along with a row of railway cottages, near the public road to Ballater. All the other structures have been levelled. The base of the footbridge is still visible as well as the GNSR kissing gate. The station building is a standard GNSR stone and wood structure, though with some modifications and the addition of a clock. Grantown-on-Spey East Station was always more popular with the inhabitants of Grantown because it gave better and more direct connections to Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London rather than the rival Highland Railway Company’s West Station with its connections to Euston via Boat of Garten, Aviemore and Glasgow.The drawing of the station buildings was undertaken during the Braes of Abernethy survey following their recognition as a potential ‘threatened building’.
Information from ‘Commissioners’ Field Meeting 2007'.
