Clayhills Yard
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Clayhills Yard (1908-)Opened on the Aberdeen Joint (Caledonian Railway).
Description
These carriage sidings were developed on the west side of Aberdeen Joint, at its south end, access from Denburn South Junction. The sidings date from around the 1908 reconstruction of Aberdeen Joint and these sidings replaced earlier, much shorter, sidings on a similar site.
Entry was controlled by a short lived signal box 'Clayhills Sidings' (1908-1914) which was subsumed by Denburn South Junction box in 1914.
The sidings remain open today. In addition to the carriage sidings there is a train washer, shed and fueling road.
To the west was Clayhills, literally a clay hill with a brick works.
Tags
SidingsAliases
Clayhills Sidings Clayhills DepotExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
