Alford
Location type
StationNames and dates
Alford (1859-1950)Alford (1983-)
Opened on the Alford Valley Railway.
Opened on the Grampian Transport Museum.
Description
This was a single platform terminus on a standard gauge railway. Today the site is a station on a narrow gauge railway.
The original stone station building has not survived and a timber replacement is in its place. The apparent locomotive shed to the west, actually a carriage shed, at the buffer end, is original (Alford Carriage Shed).
The goods yard was south of the station, approached from the east. The locomotive shed was at the east end, approached from the station (Alford Shed).
A signal box opened in 1895. This was at the station throat, north side of the line.
The station closed to passengers in 1950 but remained open for goods until 1966 when the goods yard, box and line closed.
The station is now part of the Grampian Transport Museum which has a narrow gauge (2ft) line running out from the station to the east and north (not presently in operation, 2019). The railway is now run by a trust.
In 1906 the Great North of Scotland Railway introduced a bus service from the station up Strathdon to Bellabeg.
There was a ticket platform to the east of the station.
Tags
Station terminusExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
09/12/2021
| Nearby stations Whitehouse Tillyfourie Monymusk Lumphanan Insch Buchanstone Oyne Kennethmont Wardhouse Torphins Kemnay Dess Aboyne Curlers Platform Gartly Pitcaple | Alford Shed Alford Shed [1st] Tillyfourie Quarry Correnie Quarry Monymusk Sawmill Beltie Burn Viaduct Kennethmont Summit Tourist/other Grampian Transport Museum Craigievar Castle Peel Ring of Lumphanan Kildrummy Castle Hill of Dunnideer Culsh Earth House St Mary^s Kirk Auchindoir Ardmore Distillery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1903 | Great North of Scotland Railway
Alford Valley Railway
Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway
Morayshire Railway
St Combs Light Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway) Railcars used on the Alford, Old Meldrum, Lossiemouth and St Combs lines. Bodies for these experimental railcars were built at the Inverurie Works, the steam engines were by Andrew Barclay, Sons & Co and the boilers by Cochran's Boiler Works. |
| 02/01/1950 | Alford Valley Railway Alford to Kintore [1st] closed to passengers. |
| 02/01/1966 | Alford Valley Railway Alford to Paradise Siding closed to freight. |
| / /2019 | Alford Valley Railway The Alford Valley Railway Company, from the Grampian Transport Museum to Alford, is made a trust. |
