This halt was barely even a halt - just a very small wooden platform a few feet long. The halt was only open in the 1930s and was for visitors to the nearby abbey.
Historic Environment - Deer Abbey
Nearby stations Pitfour Curling Club Platform Mintlaw Maud Brucklay [2nd] Strichen Auchnagatt Longside Mormond Halt Newseat Halt Lonmay Arnage Inverugie Hatton [GNSR] Pitlurg Rathen | Middlemuir Peat Works Lonmay Ballast Pit New Pitsligo Peat Works Peterhead Shed Ugie Viaduct Crosse and Blackwell [Peterhead] Tourist/other Deer Abbey Pitfour Lake Brucklay Castle Strichen House RNAS Longside Arnage Castle Memsie Cairn Philorth House Peterhead Bay |
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. |
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