Burghead Branch (Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway)

Introduction

This railway is closed to passengers. Track still exists between Alves and just south of Burghead (New) Station. Passenger services are still provided by ScotRail between Inverness and Aberdeen. Freight operated intermitantly to Roseisle, near Coltfield, although the trackbed is now in poor condition (2010).




Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This is the junction for the Hopeman Branch (Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway). Both the branch and main line are single track. The branch joins so that trains from the east may run straight onto the branch. The junction is not far west of the former Alves station.
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See also
Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway
North poles. Sections of the Inverness - Aberdeen line between Nairn and Inverurie represent the last significant stretches of S&T pole route extant ...
John Furnevel 02/11/2005
25234 coming off the former Hopeman branch with a freight from Burghead stands at Alves Junction awaiting clearance onto the Aberdeen - Inverness line ...
Peter Todd 03/08/1979
25234 approaching the junction of the Hopeman branch with the Inverness - Aberdeen line at Alves on 3 August 1979 with a Burghead - Dufftown working. ...
Peter Todd 03/08/1979
Scene at Alves Junction, photographed from the A96 road bridge on 3 August 1979. 25234 is held with a freight off the Hopeman branch as a passing ...
Peter Todd 03/08/1979
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This station was on the east side of the line. It was close to Easter Coltfield and a little way to the south of a road bridge. There was a short platform later supplied with a waiting shelter.
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This large maltings is located on the east side of the Burghead Branch (Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway), not far north of Coltfield Platform. The maltings is rail served.
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View south by the Roseisle Maltings in 1998. The sidings have since been lifted and site reused, but the trackbed of the Burghead branch remains. ...
Ewan Crawford //1998
A direct Then and Now comparison with Bill Roberton's 1980s photo of the same location, since when a lot of new plant has appeared at Roseisle ...
Mark Bartlett 02/07/2011
View south at Roseisle Maltings near Coltfield on the former Hopeman branch in October 2005. The disused branch line from Alves Junction can be seen ...
John Furnevel 30/10/2005
View south along the Hopeman branch towards Alves Junction in the early 1980s with Roseisle Maltings on the left. A new £40m malt whisky distillery ...
Bill Roberton //
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This blower was located south of Burghead [1st] and Burghead [2nd] on the line to Alves. There were two long runs of snowblower style structures, only built on the west side of the line. The structures protected the line from sand being blown onto the railway from the nearby Culbin Sands.
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There was a two road locomotive shed at Burghead [1st] station. This was located at the east end of the station, approached from the terminus. The shed closed before the closure of the Burghead Harbour line.
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This was the original terminus of the line from Alves. The Station Hotel still stands nearby today. Platforms remain, both passenger and goods. The engine shed was to east and lines carried on to quaysides to west.
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Site of the goods yard at Burghead in October 2005. The original line passed along the bottom of the picture on its way to the passenger terminus. ...
John Furnevel 30/10/2005
The platform of the original terminus of the line at Burghead (Old). ...
Matt Jolley //2004
Site of the old goods yard at Burghead in 2005 looking towards the harbour. The original line curved around to the left here towards the site of the ...
John Furnevel 30/10/2005
Burghead (Old), the original terminus of the line. ...
Matt Jolley //2004
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The harbour at Burghead, to the west of Burghead [1st] station, was rail served.
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