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The midday Highland train was re-timed to connect with the Great North at Keith and Elgin, and a service connected at Elgin with an Aberdeen train that had divided en route to travel via the coast and Craigellachie. [112] In 1893 the Highland cancelled the traffic agreement and withdrew two connecting trains, complaining that they were ...
This line is a rarely-used piece of track which avoids the station, linking the Far North and Kyle of Lochalsh lines to the Highland Main Line and the line to Aberdeen. [15] In recent years it has fallen in to disuse, but up to 2019 it was used weekly on Saturdays by a train from Kyle of Lochalsh to Elgin. [16]
Services ran to a terminus in Aberdeen at Waterloo from 1856 [5] before Aberdeen joint station opened in 1867. [6] The line was extended at the country end to Dufftown in 1862. [7] Meanwhile, the Morayshire Railway had built a line from Rothes to Craigellachie, [8] and subsequently linked this line to its Elgin station in 1862. [9]
The speed of trains increased, so that in 1896 Locomotive Magazine was able to record a run from Aberdeen to Elgin that completed the 61 miles (98 km) in 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 hours. [6] In summer 1948, Buckie was served by four Aberdeen to Inverness trains, with Buckie about 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours from Aberdeen. There was also a mid-day Keith Town to ...
The first proposals for rail links to Inverness were made in 1845. These were the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) between Inverness and Aberdeen and so link up with the railways to the south; the Perth & Inverness Railway, proposing a direct route over the Grampian Mountains to Perth; and the Aberdeen, Banff & Elgin Railway, with a route that followed the coast to better serve the ...
The proposal was still open in 2010, and it was specified that the station could have one platform on the north side of the line, 150 metres (490 ft) long, enough for a six-carriage Class 170 train. The proposed location of the station was given as having an eastern end at an overbridge at 136 miles 38 chains (219.6 km) ( grid reference ...
Elgin railway station is a railway station serving the town of Elgin, Moray in Scotland. The station is managed and served by ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line , between Keith and Forres , measured 12 miles 18 chains (19.7 km) from Forres.
Prior to the Dava route opening, all services to the south began at Aberdeen (on the north-east coast). Problems arose when connecting at Aberdeen from Inverness trains. Aberdeen was the terminus for two railway companies, and therefore had two separate stations: one served the east and the other was the starting point for services to the south (via the co