Arnage
Location type
StationName and dates
Arnage (1861-1965)Opened on the Formartine and Buchan Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station with the main station building on the northbound platform.
There was a goods yard on the west side, approached from the south.
The station had a loop, much longer than the platforms. North and south boxes opened in 1890. The north box was at the north end of the northbound platform. The south box was on the west side of the goods yard, close to its south end. The north box was downgraded in 1902, the signals controlled from the south box.
The station closed to passengers in 1965 and the boxes and loop closed.
The line closed in 1979.
The former station building is now a house. There are a number of railway cottages. The trackbed is a footpath.
Arnage Castle is just over half a mile to the north east of the former station.
Local
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StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
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| Nearby stations Ellon Auchnagatt Esslemont Auchmacoy Pitlurg Logierieve Maud Udny Hatton [GNSR] Abbey of Deer Halt Pitfour Curling Club Platform Mintlaw Brucklay [2nd] Cruden Bay Oldmeldrum | Ythan Viaduct Water of Cruden Viaduct Cruden Bay Brick and Tile Works Tourist/other Arnage Castle Haddo House Auchmacoy House Tarves Tomb Pitmeddan Garden Tolquhon Castle River Ythan RNAS Longside Deer Abbey Pitfour Lake Brucklay Castle Cruden Bay Hotel |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 18/07/1861 | Formartine and Buchan Railway Opened from Dyce (Great North of Scotland Railway) to Old Deer and Mintlaw. Stations opened at Parkhill, Newmachar, Udny, Newburgh Road, Esslemont, Ellon, Arnage, Auchnagatt, Brucklay [1st] and Old Deer and Mintlaw. |
| 05/01/1965 | Formartine and Buchan Railway Arnage signal box closed. |
| 02/10/1965 | Formartine and Buchan Railway Fraserburgh to Dyce junction closed to passengers. (Alternative date 4/10/1965). Fraserburgh, Rathen, Mormond Halt, Strichen, Brucklay [2nd], Maud, Arnage, Ellon, Logierieve, Udny and Newmachar closed. |
Books
 Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong |
