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The Northern Lights is a named British passenger train operated by London North Eastern Railway. It runs daily in each direction between London King's Cross and Aberdeen via the East Coast Main Line and Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line. The northbound service departs London King's Cross at 10:00 am, and the southbound service departs Aberdeen at 09:52 am
The Aberdeen section of the train called at Dundee, Arbroath, Montrose and Stonehaven, arriving in Aberdeen at 7:30 am, a journey time of exactly 12 hours. The return journey left Aberdeen at 7:35 pm, and arrived in King's Cross 11 hours 50 minutes later, with journey times shortened by streamlined P2 and A4 engines.
However, by the 1930s these services had been losing money for some time as a result of competition from the local buses, and from 5 April 1937 the local services between Aberdeen and Dyce were withdrawn and most of the intermediate stations closed. [14] The services in summer 1948 included 14 trains per day (tpd) to Aberdeen [15] [16]
Three trains work north of Aberdeen as part of the Crossrail project – one each southbound from Inverurie and Dyce and a northbound service to Dyce. Aberdeen Crossrail has increased the number of services stopping at Dyce with connections for Aberdeen Airport .
Operational (Ex Aberdeen Gas Works). Andrew Barclay 0-6-0ST No. 2139 "Salmon". Boiler ticket expired 1 January 2019, a contract overhaul is being arranged. Diesel locomotives. BR 0-6-0 Class 03 no. D2037 / 03037. Stored Unserviceable. BR 0-6-0 Class 03 no. D2094 / 03094. Operational. BR 0-6-0 Class 03 no. D2134 / 03134. Operational. Multiple units
The royal trains, which did not enter Aberdeen station but reversed at Ferryhill, took about 75 minutes to travel the 42 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (68.4 km) to Ballater; the Queen disliked high speed. The line was cleared fifteen minutes before the train was due, the facing points and level crossing gates were locked and stations closed.
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Two trains a day ran to Aberdeen from Burntisland using the ferry and the D&AR, using their own locomotives. [ 3 ] [ page needed ] During some arcane railway politics in 1866 the Caledonian had given an assurance that they would not oppose Parliamentary proceedings for a Tay Bridge at Dundee, and would transfer the Dundee and Arbroath line to ...