RAILSCOT | Aberdeen Ferryhill

Aberdeen Ferryhill

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Aberdeen Ferryhill (1850-1854)

Where: Aberdeen City, Scotland
Opened on the Aberdeen Railway.

Description

This was a short lived terminus in Aberdeen, south of the later Aberdeen Guild Street, which replaced it in 1854, and north of Ferryhill Junction. Nothing remains of this former terminus. Contemporary pictures show a station with a trainshed just north of the Dee Viaduct.

This location was to the west of the Wellington Bridge, a road bridge which crossed the River Dee.

The route north into Aberdeen itself was awkward. It was built along the shoreline of the River Dee, partly on viaduct, and on reclaimed land. This is known as 'The Arches'. Originally double track this was later considerably broadened out.

The Aberdeen Guild Street terminus was built to the west of the Upper Aberdeen Victoria Dock next to the inches (now part of the Aberdeen dock network).

A considerable amount of land has since been reclaimed to the east side of the line, allowing enlargement of the docks into the former river course and the addition of roads.

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map

Nearby stations Aberdeen Aberdeen Guild Street Holburn Street Aberdeen Waterloo Schoolhill Ruthrieston Hutcheon Street Aberdeen Kittybrewster Kittybrewster [1st] Kittybrewster [2nd] Pitfodels Halt Cove Bay Don Street Woodside [GNSR] Cults	Ferryhill Junction Ferryhill Foundry Ferryhill MPD Ferryhill Shed [1st] Dee Viaduct Aberdeen Signalling Centre Craiginches North Sidings Aberdeen Corporation Electricity Works Craiginches Saw Mill Duthie Park Craiginches Iron Works Aberdeen South Signal Box Pitmuxton Siding Tourist/other Devanha Distillery Ferryhill House
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

01/04/1850	Aberdeen Railway Aberdeen Ferryhill opened, with the extension of the line north from Portlethen. New stations at Cove and Aberdeen Ferryhill.
02/08/1854	Aberdeen Railway Extension of the line to the new Aberdeen Guild Street terminus from the temporary terminus Aberdeen Ferryhill, which closed.