Keith Junction Station

NJ45SW 12.00 4300 5165

Keith Station [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1992.

Not to be confused with Keith (Town) Station (NJ 4289 5077), for which see NJ45SW 26.

see also: NJ45SW 12.01 4333 5178 Engine shed

(Location cited as NJ 430 517). Keith Junction Station, opened 1858 by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction and Great North of Scotland Rlys. Formerly a four-platform through station and terminal station with two-bay platforms at the west end. These and the Highland Rly. platform, had substantial awnings supported on cast-iron columns, now removed. The offices are in a 1- abd 2-storey rubble range.

There are two goods sheds, one with round-headed windows and elliptical-arched doors, and the other a larger and simpler structure.

J R Hume 1977.

This station was opened as Keith Station by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Rly on 18 August 1858. It was renamed Keith Junction Station at an unspecified by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and reverted to Keith Station on 12 May 1980.

R V J Butt 1995.

This intermediate station on the Aberdeen-Inverness main line of the former Great North of Scotland Rly. (grouped into the London and North Eastern Rly.) was situated at its end-on junction with the Highland Rly. (grouped into the London Midland and Scottish Rly.). It also formed the junction for the GNoSR Speyside branch (to Craigellachie and Boat of Garten), and thus for Keith (Town) Station (NJ45SW 26), and remains in regular use by passenger traffic as Keith Station.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 October 2000.

J Thomas and D Turnock 1989.