Aboyne
Location type
StationName and dates
Aboyne (1859-1966)Opened on the Deeside Extension Railway.
Opened on the Aboyne and Braemar Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station. The main station building was on the eastbound platform. This had a large glazed canopy.
Initially there was a trainshed, with what became the eastbound platform under its cover. The goods yard was on both the north and south side of the line, approached from the east. There was a locomotive shed at the east end, approached from the west.
The line was continued west through Aboyne Tunnel and a second platform, westbound, added to the east of the trainshed.
Following rebuilding, completed in 1896, the main station building, a single storey in granite, was built on the eastbound platform with a large canopy - this still stands, without the canopy. The building has a turret at either end and a canopy over the street entrance.
A smaller similar building, timber, was built on the westbound platform, also with a canopy. The goods yard to the south was removed and further sidings added to the northern goods yard. The locomotive shed was removed.
There were two signal boxes, both dating from 1895. The west box was at the west end of the westbound platform. The east box was at the east end of the same platform looking north to the goods yard. The west box closed in 1920, subsumed by the east box.
The station closed to passengers in February 1966. The box was reduced to a ground frame. The line closed completely in July 1966.
Today the excellent eastbound station building survives in other uses and the platform area is a car park.
To the east was Aboyne Curlers Platform.
Tags
Station terminusExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Aboyne Curlers Platform Dess Dinnet Lumphanan Torphins Cambus o^ May Glassel Ballater Dee Street Halt Banchory [2nd] Banchory [1st] Alford Tillyfourie Whitehouse West Lodge | Aboyne Tunnel Monandavan Diatomite Works Beltie Burn Viaduct Cambus o^ May Ballast Siding Cambus o^ May Suspension Bridge Milton of Tullich Siding Ballater Shed Tourist/other Dess House Tomnaverie Stone Circle Peel Ring of Lumphanan Culsh Earth House Dinnet House Cambus o^ May House Craigievar Castle Mount Keen |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 02/12/1859 | Deeside Extension Railway Railway opened. Stations at Banchory [2nd], Glassel, Torphins, Dess and Aboyne. |
| 17/10/1866 | Aboyne and Braemar Railway Opened from Aboyne to Ballater with stations at Aboyne, Dinnet and Ballater. |
| 28/02/1966 | Deeside Railway
Deeside Extension Railway
Aboyne and Braemar Railway Ballater, Cambus O' May, Dinnet, Aboyne, Dess, Lumphanan, Torphins, Glassel, Dee Street Halt, Banchory [2nd], Crathes, Park, Culter and Cults closed to passengers. |
