Silverstripe Siding
The 1863-64 OS 25 map shows the probable original layout of the sawmill and its siding and loading bank. The original name of this location was Silverwell. The sawmill was established in 1855 by A&G Paterson of Glasgow three years after the railway arrived. The name changed soon after to Silverstripe/Silverstrype which name persisted until the early twentieth century when it became Silverbank as it remains today. The blue area was probably a reservoir for supplying water to the sawmill 'engine house' which by some mechanical means possibly a belt or band supplied a rotary motion to the vertically mounted saw blade in its pit. So-called manufactured wood i.e. cut timber would have been carted downhill to be loaded onto wagons for onward movement to Aberdeen; the route down the slope to the loading bank from the mill is clearly shown. Uncut timber was also loaded here and at Banchory Station. Added by Charlie Niven.
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Location: Silverstripe Siding (former)
Original line: Deeside Railway
Photographer: National Library of Scotland
Contact photographer: National Library of Scotland
Date: 12/06/2021
Image number: 77156
