This railway is closed. The railway provided a service from Aberdeen to Banchory. The line was continued to Aboyne and Ballater by the Deeside Extension Railway and the Aboyne and Braemar Railway. A number of stations were relocated during the doubling of the east portion of the line.
16/07/1846 | Deeside Railway Act receives Royal assent. The railway is not built and power lapse. |
28/05/1852 | Deeside Railway Deeside Railway re-authorised from Ferryhill Junction to Banchory [1st]. |
05/07/1852 | Deeside Railway First sod cut. |
07/09/1853 | Deeside Railway Line opened from Aberdeen [Ferryhill] to Banchory [1st]. Stations at : Cults, Murtle, Culter, Park, Mills of Drum, the private Crathes Castle Platform, and Banchory. |
/ /1854 | Deeside Railway Millitimber and Drum opened. |
03/08/1854 | Aberdeen Railway
Deeside Railway The Deeside Railway is granted running powers over the Aberdeen Railway between the Aberdeen (Guild Street) terminus and Ferryhill Junction. The payment required was established in 1855. |
/ /1856 | Deeside Railway Ruthrieston opened. |
02/12/1859 | Deeside Railway Banchory [1st] closed to passengers on opening of Deeside Extension Railway. |
13/05/1862 | Deeside Railway Line leased by Great North of Scotland Railway to block authorisation of a new line from Stonehaven to Kintore [1st]. |
01/01/1863 | Deeside Railway Mills of Drum and Crathes Castle Platform (private) closed and replaced by Crathes. |
/ /1864 | Aberdeen Joint A committee is formed for the management of the new joint Aberdeen Joint station between the companies (owners Scottish North Eastern Railway/Caledonian Railway and Great North of Scotland Railway and access for the Deeside Railway). |
/ /1864 | Aberdeen Railway Authorisation to close Aberdeen Guild Street to passengers when replaced by Aberdeen Joint, except for Deeside Railway traffic. |
23/06/1864 | Aberdeen Joint (Caledonian Railway)Denburn Valley Line (Great North of Scotland Railway) Denburn Valley line to connect the Great North of Scotland Railway at Kittybrewster [2nd] to the Scottish North Eastern Railway (from 1866 Caledonian Railway) at Aberdeen Guild Street authorised. South of the new Aberdeen Joint will be SNER owned and north will be GNSR owned. The Deeside Railway is authorised to use the station, details to be agreed. |
/ /1865 | Deeside RailwayDeeside Extension RailwayAboyne and Braemar Railway Royal couriers first use line rather than Cairnwell Pass road to get to Balmoral Castle from the south. |
30/07/1866 | Deeside RailwayDeeside Extension RailwayAboyne and Braemar RailwayGreat North of Scotland Railway Deeside lines leased for 999 years by Great North of Scotland Railway. |
/ /1867 | Aberdeen Joint (Caledonian Railway) Access to Aberdeen Joint formally negotiated for the Deeside Railway, replacing its access for passenger trains to Aberdeen (Guild Street). |
05/09/1870 | Deeside Railway Access to Aberdeen Joint set at £500 per annum. |
01/10/1875 | Deeside Railway
Great North of Scotland Railway Deeside Railway absorbed by Great North of Scotland Railway. (Alternative dates 1/8/1875, 1876). |
14/06/1884 | Deeside Railway Doubled from Ferryhill Junction to Cults. |
13/07/1892 | Deeside Railway Doubled from Cults to Murtle. |
24/09/1892 | Deeside Railway Murtle to Culter [2nd] doubled. |
/ /1894 | Great North of Scotland RailwayDeeside Railway Aberdeen suburban service extended to Culter on the Deeside Railway. Holburn Street, Pitfodels and West Cults stations opened. |
/ /1897 | Deeside Railway Bieldside opened. |
28/08/1899 | Deeside Railway Doubled from Culter [2nd] to Park. |
/ /1902 | Deeside Railway Banchory [2nd] substantially rebuilt. |
/ /1929 | Deeside Railway Sentinel-Cammell steam railcars introduced on the Aberdeen to Culter run, bringing the service to half hourly. |
/ /1937 | Deeside Railway
Aberdeen Joint (Caledonian Railway)
Denburn Valley Line (Great North of Scotland Railway)
Great North of Scotland Railway Local Aberdeen Suburban service withdrawn. Deeside - Millitimber, Murtle, Bieldside, West Cults, Pitfodels Halt, Ruthrieston, Holborn Street closed. Denburn - Schoolhill and Hutcheon Street closed. GNSR main line - Don Street, Woodside, Persley Halt, Bankhead, Stoneywood closed. |
/ /1951 | Deeside Railway Line singled from Park to Culter, Murtle, Cults and Ferryhill Junction. Drum station and signal box closed. |
21/04/1958 | Aberdeen Railway Deeside Railway Deeside Extension Railway Aboyne and Braemar Railway BMU Battery Railcar introduced between Aberdeen and Ballater. |
28/02/1966 | Deeside Railway
Deeside Extension Railway
Aboyne and Braemar Railway Ballater, Cambus O' May, Dinnet, Aboyne, Dess, Lumphanan, Torphins, Glassel, Dee Street Halt, Banchory [2nd], Crathes, Park, Culter and Cults closed to passengers. |
18/07/1966 | Deeside RailwayDeeside Extension RailwayAboyne and Braemar Railway Ballater to Culter (excluded) closed to freight. Culter Paper Mill remains rail served. |
02/01/1967 | Deeside Railway Culter to Ferryhill Junction closed to freight. Culter Paper Mill ceases to be rail served. |
/ /1972 | Deeside Railway Line lifted. |
/ /1996 | Deeside Railway Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society formed. |
/02/1999 | Deeside Railway Council asks Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society not to re-open line at Ferryhill. Heritage Centre to be opened next to Duthie Park instead. |
13/02/2000 | Deeside Railway Last delivery of a set of track panels to Milton of Crathes for partial re-instatement of the line by the Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society. |
/ /2002 | Deeside Railway Embankment slippage leads to replacement drainage at Culter on the Deeside Way. |
/ /2003 | Deeside Railway Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society commences work to relay a short portion of the line from Milton of Crathes. |
/02/2003 | Deeside Railway Network Rail will not allow the Royal Deeside Railway access to the Ferryhill Shed [2nd] site, which NR plans to be redeveloped. |
13/12/2003 | Deeside Railway Class 14 D9551 hauls the first train to operate on the line since dismantling in 1972. |
/04/2006 | Deeside Railway Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society's short line (1/4 of a mile) from the incomplete Milton of Crathes opened. |
08/04/2008 | Deeside Railway On their third wedding anniversary Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall unveil a reproduction of a Victoria era railway carriage at Ballater station. |
/ /2010 | Deeside Railway Return of steam to the Deeside Railway - now the Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society's line from Milton of Crathes. |
/ /2012 | Deeside Railway Former Pitfodels station building restored at four bedroom house. |
These locations are along the line.
This was the junction between the Deeside Railway and the Aberdeen Railway. The junction was just north of Ferryhill Shed [1st] and the Dee Viaduct and south of Ferryhill (Aberdeen) (which survived until 1854 to be replaced by Aberdeen Guild Street), later replaced by Aberdeen Joint. The junction gave access to the branch from Aberdeen Joint.
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Serving Ruthrieston Brick Works, the the north of the line. The siding was also on the north side of the line and reached from its east.
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This was a two platform station, the first out of Aberdeen on the Deeside Railway. It was elevated and on the east side of Holburn Street itself. There were no goods facility.
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More detailsThis was a two platform station in Aberdeen.
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This was a two platform station.
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This was a two platform station just east of the Den of Cults. The main station building was on the eastbound platform. There was a goods yard to the north, approached from the east.
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This was a two platform station served by the GNoSR's suburban service on the Deeside line. The main station building was on the eastbound platform.
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This was a two platform served by the suburban service to Aberdeen. There was no goods yard. The main station building was on the eastbound platform.
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This was a two platform station with a siding approached by reversal from the eastbound line. The main station building was on the eastbound platform.
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This was a two platform station with the main station building on the eastbound platform and a goods yard to the west, on the north side, served from the east.
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This was a single platform station on the north side of the single track line. The platform was directly south of the goods sidings which remained here with the station moved west to Milltimber [2nd], probably around the time of track doubling in 1892.
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This was a two platform station at the time of closure in 1966.
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This paper mill was rail served by a branch which ran south east to Culter [2nd] station. The mill operated its own locomotives. Rail traffic ended in January 1967, along with the Deeside Railway.
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This was a single platform station. The platform was on the north side of the single track line with a goods yard at the east end, approached from the east. A branch to Culter Paper Mill also ran from the goods yard.
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The original station here was a short platform on the north side of the line, a level crossing to the west and beyond that a siding approached from the east.
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Confusingly the former Park station is located in Drumoak. When opened it was in countryside to the north of Park Toll Bridge and just south of Nether Sunnyside. Park itself is about half a mile west and Park House even further west. Drumoak has developed in more recent years and has subsumed Nether Sunnyside.
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This was a short lived single platform station on the north side of the line and with a level crossing to the west.
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This was the second Crathes station, there previously having been a private station for Crathes Castle to the west, Crathes Castle Platform and Mills of Drum, to the east.
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This is a new two platform station. The main station building is from Oldmeldrum station although it has been extensively rebuilt and repaired.
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More detailsThis shed replaced Banchory Shed [2nd], the site of which was used to expand Banchory goods yard.. It was east of Banchory [2nd] and Banchory Works and built on the north side of the line.
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These works were east of Banchory [1st] station and its replacement Banchory [2nd] station. Access was from the west, with the north part of the building accessed by turnplate.
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This shed was on the south side of the Banchory [1st] goods yard. It was approached from the east.
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The first Banchory shed was built between Banchory Works, to the north, and the Deeside Railway, to the south.
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The terminus of the Deeside Railway opened from Aberdeen in 1853. It was rebuilt in 1859 when the Deeside Extension Railway extended the railway west to Aboyne.
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