This short line, which is open today, linked the Aberdeen Railway (then part of the Scottish North Eastern Railway) to the Great North of Scotland Railway. It replaced an unsatisfactory horse drawn street tramway which ran by the docks from Aberdeen Guild Street to Aberdeen Waterloo (both of which were to close having been replaced by Aberdeen Joint). The tramway was in use from 1856 to 1867. Building of the line required the piping of the Den Burn (between [[Schoolhill and Aberdeen Joint) and much of the line ran in cuttings and tunnels. North of Aberdeen Joint it was double track throughout. Denburn South Junction to Aberdeen Joint was owned by the Scottish North Eastern Railway. Aberdeen Joint to Kittybrewster [2nd] was owned by the Great North of Scotland Railway.
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This is a station with five public platforms. It opened as Aberdeen Joint - jointly owned by the Scottish North Eastern Railway to the south and the Great North of Scotland Railway to the north. The two lines met at Denburn Junction within the station. It replaced terminal stations at Aberdeen Guild Street and Aberdeen Waterloo respectively. A poor horse-drawn street tramway link ...
More detailsThis is a closed station north of Aberdeen. It was a station and the ticket platform for Aberdeen.
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The line is presently single track. To the north, at Berryden Junction, it has been redoubled through to Inverurie (2019) and to the south, at Aberdeen, the line is double. The tunnel was built to accommodate a double track. It is 250 yards long.
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This was built as a double track tunnel between Hutcheon Street station and Schoolhill station. The tunnel is 280 yards long.
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This was a two platform station in a deep cutting to the north of Hutcheon Street. There was a short lived signal box. To the south the Hutcheon Street Tunnel took the line south towards Schoolhill and Aberdeen. North the line continued to Kittybrewster [2nd]. A surface level building remains on the west side of the cutting on Hutcheon Street.
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This was the short lived Aberdeen terminus of the Great North of Scotland Railway. Kittybrewster was to the north of the city and was never intended to be the terminus. It closed with the opening of the Aberdeen Waterloo Extension (Great North of Scotland Railway). The location was close to today's road bridge. Nothing remains of this station. To the west of the station was a goods shed ...
More detailsThis two platform through station was opened with the Denburn Valley Line (Great North of Scotland Railway). It replaced Kittybrewster [1st], which was to its immediate east and located on the Aberdeen Waterloo branch. The line was opened as a double track between Denburn Junction and Kittybrewster Junction in 1867.
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This yard was located to the east of Kittybrewster [2nd] station. It was served from the north. A loop came off the main line to the south of the station and rejoined at Kittybrewster Junction north of the station. This crossed the Aberdeen Waterloo line to the south of the station.
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This junction was located north of Aberdeen Kittybrewster, Kittybrewster [1st] and Kittybrewster [2nd] station. It was initially formed, in 1856, as a junction between the original main line of the Great North of Scotland Railway and the Aberdeen Waterloo Extension (Great North of Scotland Railway), 19 chains north of the original terminus Aberdeen Kittybrewster, which ...
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