Dunnottar Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Dunnottar Signal Box (1891-1963)Opened on the Aberdeen Railway.
Description
This signal box was between Stonehaven and Carmont. The box was on the north side of the line. The box was quite some way west of Dunnottar at Auquhirie, about three miles west of Dunnottar House by road.
Alternative spelling: Dunottar.
To the west of the former box the line crosses over the Carron Water.
Dunnottar Castle is some distance away - about 3.5 miles to the east.
Tags
Signal box
| Nearby stations Den Cottage Platform Stonehaven Carmont Drumlithie Limpet Mill Muchalls Newtonhill Fordoun Inverbervie Mills of Drum Crathes Park Milton of Crathes Gourdon Crathes Castle Platform | Carron Water Bridge [East Croft of Carmont] Carron Water Bridge [East Carmont] Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Fetteresso Viaduct Glenury Viaduct Den of Cowie Viaduct Bervie Water Viaduct Limpet Corn Mill Muchalls Mill Viaduct Muchalls Viaduct Elsick Viaduct Tourist/other Fetteresso Castle Glenury Royal Distillery Dunnottar Castle Grassic Gibbon Centre |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
News items
| 18/06/2012 | Delayed trains after track damage at Stonehaven [Kincardineshire Observer] |
