Kemnay

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Kemnay (1859-1950)

Opened on the Alford Valley Railway.
Opened on the Kemnay Timber Extraction Railway.

Description

This was a single platform station. The station building was in timber.

There was a goods yard to the south, approached from the station.

The station had a signal box, opened 1901.

Closure to passengers for the station and line was in 1950. The goods yard, box and line closed in 1966.

Nothing remains of the station. The site of the station building is now a co-op.

Stone from the Kemnay Quarries was used in the reconstruction of Aberdeen Joint station in 1916.

Local

This former station was the closest to Castle Fraser , which is around 2.5 miles to the south west.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map

Books


A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway

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

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: Great North of Scotland Railway v. 3

The Great North of Scotland Railway - A New History