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A second company, the Deeside Extension Railway, was incorporated in 1857 to continue the line to Aboyne where it opened the station on 2 December 1859 as its terminus. [1] [2] The line was extended to Ballater by a third company, Aboyne and Braemar Railway, which opened on 17 October 1866 when the station ceased to be a terminus. [3]
On opening, the terminus of the railway was at Aberdeen Ferryhill railway station, which was also the terminus of the Aberdeen Railway at the time. The railway was extended north to a new terminus, Aberdeen Guild Street, in 1854. A wire fence strainer on the Deeside line near Peterculter made by Harper and Co, Ironfounders, Aberdeen. A special ...
Aberdeen Ferryhill railway station, original terminus of the Aberdeen Railway, opened 1 April 1854 and closed 2 August 1854. [2] Aberdeen Guild Street railway station, on the Aberdeen Railway; used as a freight terminal after the construction of the Joint station, opened 2 August 1854 and closed 4 November 1867. [2]
Dinnet railway station was opened on 17 October 1866 by the Aboyne and Braemar Railway and served Dinnet village [2] from 1899 to 1966 as an intermediate station on the Deeside Railway that ran from Aberdeen (Joint) to Ballater. Dinnet is located close to the River Dee in the parish of Glenmuick, Tullich And Glengairn, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The line itself has been lifted and this section forms part of the Deeside Way long-distance footpath. Aboyne was not unique in having a dedicated private curlers' railway station as at least one other existed at Loch Parks, named Drummuir Curlers' Platform on the Keith and Dufftown Railway. Loch Leven station was frequently used for curling ...
The station currently standing was built and opened in 1867, although the station today has been significantly redeveloped from the original. [6] The station and the new Denburn Valley Line enabled the main line from the south and the commuter line from Deeside to connect with the line from the north.
The line is double-track apart from a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) single-track section south of Montrose, which includes the South Esk Viaduct. [1] Plans to dual this section were announced in 2008 and again in 2016. [2] It is not electrified. At its northern terminus, Aberdeen railway station, the line meets the Aberdeen–Inverness line.
The Aberdeen Railway was a Scottish railway company which built a line from Aberdeen to Forfar and Arbroath, partly by leasing and upgrading an existing railway. The line opened in stages between 1847 and 1850, with branches to Brechin and Montrose .