Glassel
Location type
StationName and dates
Glassel (1859-1966)Opened on the Deeside Extension Railway.
Description
Glassel was a single platform station on the north side of the single track line. It had a station building typical of the extension line with a railway cottage to its immediate east.
There was a siding serving a loading bank opposite the passenger platform giving the appearance of a two platform station. The siding was served from the east, with reversal to reach the loading bank. The signal box was at the east end.
The station and line closed in 1966.
The station building survives and is now a house. Railway cottages also survive nearby.
Local
Glassel House is to the north east of the station. The station was in a rural location, there is no town except Banchory, served by Banchory [2nd], to the east.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Torphins Dee Street Halt Banchory [2nd] Banchory [1st] West Lodge Lumphanan Crathes Castle Platform Dess Milton of Crathes Crathes Mills of Drum Aboyne Curlers Platform Aboyne Tillyfourie Park | Beltie Burn Viaduct Banchory Shed [2nd] Banchory Works Banchory Shed [1st] Banchory Shed [3rd] Silverstripe Saw Mill Silverstripe Siding Bridge of Bennie Crathes Gravel Pit Durris Bridge [1st] Aboyne Tunnel Tourist/other Dess House Birkenbaud Level Crossing Crathes Castle Peel Ring of Lumphanan |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 02/12/1859 | Deeside Extension Railway Railway opened. Stations at Banchory [2nd], Glassel, Torphins, Dess and Aboyne. |
| 28/02/1966 | Deeside Railway
Deeside Extension Railway
Aboyne and Braemar Railway Ballater, Cambus O' May, Dinnet, Aboyne, Dess, Lumphanan, Torphins, Glassel, Dee Street Halt, Banchory [2nd], Crathes, Park, Culter and Cults closed to passengers. |
