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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]
The Deeside Railway was leased by the GNoSR from 1866 who absorbed the Deeside Railway on 1 August 1875 and the Aboyne & Braemar Railway on 31 January 1876. [129] The line closed to passengers on 28 February 1966, the section west of Culter completely on 18 July 1966 and the remaining section completely 2 January 1967.
The Deeside Railway was a passenger and goods railway between Aberdeen and Ballater in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Opening in 1853 to Banchory , an extension reached Aboyne in 1859. A separate company, the Aboyne & Braemar Railway, built an extension to Ballater and this opened in 1866.
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 ] Aberdeen Joint railway station , on Denburn Valley Line connecting the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) and Aberdeen Railway, removing the need for ...
Aboyne Curling Pond railway station, Loch of Aboyne Platform or Curlers' Platform [1] was a private station opened on the Deeside Extension Railway for the use of the curlers, who played on the nearby Loch of Aboyne close to the old Deeside Railway that ran from Aberdeen (Joint) to Ballater.
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.
British Rail's Motorail service ran between London and Aberdeen from 1968 [9] until Friday 26 May 1995. [10] Plans to reintroduce a Motorail service between London and Aberdeen operated by Motorail Ltd were announced December 1998 [11] and confirmed in March 1999. [12] Signage at Aberdeen station in May 2012, showing National Rail double-arrow logo
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 .