Dyce [1st]

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Dyce [1st] (1854-1861)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Where: Aberdeen City
Opened on the Great North of Scotland Railway.

Description

This station was 400 yds north of the later Dyce station, opened with the opening of the Formartine and Buchan Railway. The station closed in 1861.

From Kittybrewster Junction to Dyce was doubled in 1861.
The line was doubled from Dyce to Kintore [1st] in 1880.

The Dyce Creosote Works was to the east of this station. When built, there was little development in the area.

Between Dyce and Inverurie was singled in 1969.

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Station

Books

150 Years of the Great North: Tales of the Little But Good
A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway

Banff, Moray and Nairn's Lost Railways

Great North Memories: Aberdeen No. 2: Scenes of the North East's Own Railway

Great North Memories: LNER Era, 1923-47

Great North of Scotland Railway (History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands, vol. 3)

Great North of Scotland Railway Album

Great North of Scotland Railway Album

Great North of Scotland Railway Carriages

Great North of Scotland Railway Locomotives

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: Great North of Scotland Railway v. 3
LNER Wagons: Volume 3: Scottish Area: Ex North British and Ex-Great North of Scotland Railway Wagons
Modelling the Great North of Scotland Railway
Moray Coast Railways
Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong

Signalling and Signal Boxes along the North British Railway, Great North of Scotland Railway and the CLC Routes

Speyside Railways: Exploring the Remains of the Great North of Scotland Railways and Its Environs

The Great North of Scotland Railway - A New History

The Travellers Joy: The Story of the Morayshire Railway