Laurencekirk
Location type
StationNames and dates
Laurencekirk (1849-1967)Laurencekirk (2009-)
Station code: LAU National Rail ScotRail
Where: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Opened on the Aberdeen Railway.
Open on the Dundee to Aberdeen.
Description
This is a two platform station. The original station building remains on the down (northbound) platform. There was a larger building on the southbound platform, also with canopy, but this has not survived.
There is a goods yard to the north, west side of the line, approached from the north. This features the original goods shed. The signal box (a replacement dating from 1910) is on the east side of the line close to where the goods yard is connected.
The station re-opened in 2009 more than forty years after closure. The survival of the station building during that time is remarkable. Two posters which survived until reopening have been preserved in the waiting room.
Local
The Grassic Gibbon Centre is six and a half miles to the north east of the former station.
Tags
Station reopeningExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
Facilities
Listing: B
| Nearby stations Marykirk Fordoun Lauriston St Cyrus Craigo Johnshaven North Water Bridge Halt Brotherton (Private) Birnie Road Siding Hillside [NB] Gourdon Dubton Inverbervie Drumlithie Edzell | Marykirk Viaduct Denfinella Viaduct North Water Bridge Viaduct Kinnaber Junction Hillside Distillery Bervie Water Viaduct Inverbervie Shed Puggieston Siding Puggieston Brick and Tile Works Edzell Shed Broomfield Junction Tourist/other Lauriston Castle Grassic Gibbon Centre Brotherton Castle Broomfield Aerodrome |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Franklin ExpeditionIn the Church of Scotland graveyard is a gravestone of the M'Donald family. Alexander M'Donald who died on the lost Franklin Expedition is remembered on the stone (now incomplete). Alexander University of Calgary - Alexander Mâ??Donald L.R.C.S.E (1817 â?? c.1848) |
Chronology Dates
| 01/11/1849 | Aberdeen Railway Line extended from Dubton Junction to Limpet Mill (a temporary terminus north of Stonehaven). Stations at Marykirk, Laurencekirk, Drumlithie, Stonehaven and Limpet Mill. |
| / /1907 | Aberdeen Railway Permission to buy land to extend Laurencekirk station. |
| 26/04/1910 | Aberdeen Railway Reconstruction of Laurencekirk authorised. |
| 04/09/1967 | Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Aberdeen Railway Perth (Stanley Junction) to Laurencekirk (Kinnaber Junction) closed to passengers. |
| / /1992 | Aberdeen Railway Freight traffic at Laurencekirk ceases. |
| /06/1997 | Aberdeen Railway Freight traffic returns to Laurencekirk. |
| 17/05/2009 | Aberdeen Railway Laurencekirk station re-opened. This was the 65th Modern Era re-opening in Scotland. |
| /04/2010 | Aberdeen Railway Following the success of re-opening Laurencekirk, Muchalls and Cammachmore Community Council appeals for re-opening of Newtonhill station. |
