Aberdeen Kittybrewster

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Aberdeen Kittybrewster (1854-1856)

Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Great North of Scotland Railway.
Opened on the Denburn Valley Line (Great North of Scotland Railway).

Description

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 and possibly an engine shed. It was replaced by Kittybrewster [1st] on the Waterloo Extension.

On the opening of the Denburn Valley Line (Great North of Scotland Railway) a station was opened at Kittybrewster [2nd] which may have occupied some of the same site.

Tags

Terminus

External links

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

Chronology Dates

  /  /1849Great North of Scotland Railway
Shortened route from Keith to Aberdeen Kittybrewster proposed.
  /  /1850Great North of Scotland Railway
Authorisation to extend the line from Aberdeen Kittybrewster to Aberdeen Guild Street given. This was allowed to lapse.
  /  /1854Great North of Scotland Railway
Authorisation to build line from Aberdeen Kittybrewster to Aberdeen Waterloo given.
  /09/1854Great North of Scotland Railway
Huntly to Aberdeen Kittybrewster inspected.
12/09/1854Great North of Scotland Railway
Huntly to Aberdeen Kittybrewster opened to freight. Passing places at: Aberdeen Kittybrewster, Kintore [1st], Inverurie, Insch and Huntly.
19/09/1854Great North of Scotland Railway
Huntly to Aberdeen Kittybrewster official opening.
20/09/1854Great North of Scotland Railway
Huntly to Aberdeen Kittybrewster opened to passengers. Stations at: Aberdeen Kittybrewster, Buxsburn, Dyce [1st], Kintore [1st], Inverurie [1st], Pitcaple, Oyne, Insch, Kennethmont, Gartly, Huntly.
01/04/1856Great North of Scotland Railway
Kittybrewster [1st] to Aberdeen Waterloo opened completely (with horse tramway to the Aberdeen Railway's terminus at Aberdeen Guild Street). Kittybrewster [1st] and Aberdeen Waterloo stations opened. Original Aberdeen Kittybrewster terminus closed.

Books

150 Years of the Great North: Tales of the Little But Good
A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway

Banff, Moray and Nairn's Lost Railways

Great North Memories: Aberdeen No. 2: Scenes of the North East's Own Railway

Great North Memories: LNER Era, 1923-47

Great North of Scotland Railway (History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands, vol. 3)

Great North of Scotland Railway Album

Great North of Scotland Railway Album

Great North of Scotland Railway Carriages

Great North of Scotland Railway Locomotives

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: Great North of Scotland Railway v. 3
LNER Wagons: Volume 3: Scottish Area: Ex North British and Ex-Great North of Scotland Railway Wagons
Modelling the Great North of Scotland Railway
Moray Coast Railways
Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong

Signalling and Signal Boxes along the North British Railway, Great North of Scotland Railway and the CLC Routes

Speyside Railways: Exploring the Remains of the Great North of Scotland Railways and Its Environs

The Great North of Scotland Railway - A New History

The Travellers Joy: The Story of the Morayshire Railway