Milton of Crathes

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Milton of Crathes (2006-)

Opened on the Deeside Railway.

Description

This is a new two platform station. The main station building is from Oldmeldrum station although it has been extensively rebuilt and repaired.

The reinstated line ran west from here towards Banchory.

The station is west of the former Crathes station.

The station is the base of the Royal Deeside Railway .

Local

Crathes Castle

Tags

Station terminus
08/06/2018


Chronology Dates

13/02/2000Deeside Railway
Last delivery of a set of track panels to Milton of Crathes for partial re-instatement of the line by the Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society.
  /  /2003Deeside Railway
Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society commences work to relay a short portion of the line from Milton of Crathes.
  /04/2006Deeside Railway
Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society's short line (1/4 of a mile) from the incomplete Milton of Crathes opened.
  /  /2010Deeside Railway
Return of steam to the Deeside Railway - now the Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society's line from Milton of Crathes.
  /08/2011Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway
Old Meldrum station dismantling by the Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society begins. Work continued in April 2012. The building was re-located to Milton of Crathes.

News items

18/04/2021Thieves make off with tools and cause damage totalling £3,000 at Royal Deeside Railway [Evening Express]
30/12/2019Rare postal trolley restored by Deeside volunteers [Press and Journal]
23/02/2014It's full steam ahead for Salmon on the Deeside Railway [STV]

Books


A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway

Deeside Line: The North-east's Royal 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

Royal Deeside's Railway: Aberdeen to Ballater

Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong

The Great North of Scotland Railway - A New History