Findochty
Location type
StationName and dates
Findochty (1886-1968)Opened on the Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway).
Description
This was a single platform station just to the south of Findochty and its Broad Haven. The platform was on the north side of the single track.
There was a goods yard beyond this at the east end, approached from the east, on the north side of the line.
A signal box opened with the station. This was at the east end of the platform.
The signal box closed in 1896.
The station and line closed in 1968.
After closure the station survived until the building burned down in 1975. The platform remained until the 1980s when the site was obliterated by a housing development. Dyce Crescent now runs through the site. The station cottage remains to the north of the former station.
Local
The trackbed is now the National Cycle Route 1 .
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Portknockie Portessie [HR] Portessie [GNSR] Buckie [GNSR] Rathven Buckie [HR] Cullen Letterfourie Buckpool Tochieneal Portgordon Enzie Glassaugh Spey Bay Portsoy [2nd] | Findochty Junction Portessie Shed Jones Buckie Shipyard Buckie Shipyard Buckie Maltings Cullen Burn Viaduct Forsyths Works [Buckie] Cullen North Deskford Street Bridge Cullen Castle Street Viaduct Cullen Seafield Street Viaduct Gillyfurry Siding Tourist/other Cluny Harbour Cullen House Inchgower Distillery Deskford Church |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/05/1886 | Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway) Tochieneal to Garmouth opened. Stations opened: Cullen, Portknockie, Findochty, Portessie [GNSR], Buckie [GNSR], Nether Buckie, Portgordon and Fochabers [GNSR]. |
Books
 Banff, Moray and Nairn's Lost Railways | Moray Coast Railways |  The Travellers Joy: The Story of the Morayshire Railway |
