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Victorian guidebooks written by George Bradshaw under the title Bradshaw's Guide were the first comprehensive timetable and travel guides to the railway system in Great Britain, which at the time, although it had grown to be extensive, still consisted of several fragmented and competing railway companies and lines, each publishing their own timetables.
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]
The company was constantly short of money, and it was absorbed by the GNoSR in 1867. In 1886 a railway line was opened connecting Portsoy with coastal communities to the west, and reaching Elgin. Trains from Aberdeen ran over the Banffshire line to Portsoy and continued on the new coast line.
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. [17] In summer 1948, Portsoy was served by four Aberdeen to Inverness trains, with Portsoy about 2 hours from Aberdeen.
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 ...
When the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway (I&AJR) reached Keith via Elgin, the Morayshire was able to complete the Speyside second phase by connecting the Craigellachie line at Orton. Initially, the Morayshire ran its own locomotives on the I&AJR track between Elgin and Orton but this was short-lived and the Morayshire carriages were ...
The motivation for a railway line linking Dufftown was still in place, and in 1856 plans were deposited for the Keith and Dufftown Railway.It was to be a nine-mile line, with a possible extension to mineral workings in Glenrinnes; capital was proposed to be £50,000; the Bill allowed for the line to be worked by either the GNoSR or the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway.