This railway is closed and much of the former trackbed now forms the Speyside Way (Speyside Way ).
The line ran by the River Spey serving Whisky country. The line was single track.
The railway provided a service from Boat of Garten to Dufftown. Connections were provided at Craigellachie to Elgin (via the Morayshire Railway) and Dufftown to Aberdeen (via the Keith and Dufftown Railway and the Great North of Scotland Railway). Connections were provided at Boat of Garten to Inverness and Perth (via the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway and later the Highland Railway).
These locations are along the line.
This is a preserved two platform station, one of the platforms being a bay and the other the former westbound through platform. Dufftown is the terminus of the Keith and Dufftown Railway Association line, a heritage railway. The original station building still stands on the platform. As with many former GNoSR stations the station name is displayed in a window above the platform frontage. A ...
More detailsThis disused single track girder viaduct crosses the River Fiddich south of the site of Craigellachie [2nd] station. It now carries a footpath.
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This was a three platform station and junction. There were two platforms on the route between Elgin East and Keith via Dufftown and one platform on the Strathspey route to Boat of Garten. To the north on the Elgin route the line almost immediately crossed the Craigellachie Bridge to reach Dandaleith.
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This was a two platform station. One platform survives with a station building which has been greatly extended at the southern end.
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This was a single platform halt to the north of Dailuaine Distillery. The platform still exists on the south side of the former line.
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This distillery is close to the former Dailuaine Halt. It was served by a branch from just east of the Bridge of Carron on the Strathspey Railway which opened around 1885 and closed in November 1968. The locomotive shed still exists.
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This bridge carried both the Strathspey Railway and a road over the River Spey. Today the railway is closed but road remains open. It is also known as Carron Bridge (a name which can lead to confusion with Carron Bridge on the Glasgow and South Western Railway).
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This was a two platform station with a goods yard to the north, approached from the east. There was a level crossing to the immediate west of the station, access to the Imperial Distillery.
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Imperial Distillery was demolished in 2013 having been stripped for many years after final closure in 1998. Production ceased on a number of occasions.
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This halt was alongside the Imperial Cottages and to the west of the Imperial Distillery and Carron station. The distillery cottages were built on the north side of the line.
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This was a private short single platform halt built in timber on the north side of the line serving Knockando House, to the north.
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This distillery was founded in 1898. It was close to Gilbey's Cottage Halt which served the worker cottages built by Gilbey for the Knockando Distillery.
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More detailsThis was a two platform station with a passing loop. The station did not open with the line in 1863, but much later in 1899. It was initially named Dalbeallie for a farm to the east, becoming Knockando in 1905. (This avoided confusion with Dalbeattie.)
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This is a well preserved closed station on the former Strathspey Railway. It had a single platform, on the west side of the line, and a goods yard to the south, also on the west side of the line, approached from the south.
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This timber siding was north of Ballindalloch, on the west bank of the River Spey and north of the Ballindalloch Viaduct. The siding was on the west side of the line.
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This is a single track viaduct crossing the River Spey with a 198ft lattice girder and short plate bridges at either end. The train ran through the lattice. Craigellachie Bridge (now demolished) was of a similar design.
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This was a two platform station at Cragganmore, Ballindalloch Castle was two miles away by road. Nearer was the Cragganmore distillery. The distillery was intentionally opened here due to the proximity of the railway.
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More detailsA single platform station with a short platform and siding at the west end, the platform was extended, a new building (in timber) provided and goods yard expanded. The platform was on the south side of the line.
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More detailsThis halt was at Main of Dalvey, the halt separated from the farm by the main road. The platform was on the south side of the line close to Bridge of Dalvey.
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This was a single platform station. The single storey station building is now a house. Cromdale itself is a little to the south.
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This long siding served a gravel pit south west of Cromdale station. Approach was from the Boat of Garten direction, the siding was on the southern/eastern side of the line.
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This was a two platform station to the south of the town of Grantown-on-Spey, and on the south bank of the Spey. The main station building was on the eastbound platform.
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This farm halt was alongside Balliefurth Farm on the line to the immediate west. The halt was alongside the road bridge crossing the line. It was opened by British Railways.
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More detailsThis was the point of divergence for the Strathspey Railway from the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway. It was not a junction in the conventional sense.
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This was a two road stone built locomotive shed just north of Boat of Garten station.
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This is a preserved station on the Strathspey Railway. The architect of the station building, (dating from around 1904), was William Roberts. A 1860s stone portion, house styled like at Dava, is extended by the newer timber portion. It was a junction station, the line from Perth dividing here to go north to Forres or north east via Strathspey to Keith. The station is 712 ft ...
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