Muchalls
Location type
StationName and dates
Muchalls (1850-1950)Opened on the Aberdeen Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station. The main station building was on the northbound platform.
There was a goods siding starting from the south end and on the east side of the line, approached from the south. The signal box was at the south end of the northbound platform. The box was badly damaged by a derailment which tore out the front of the building, but was rebuilt.
The station closed in 1950 and signal box in 1964.
Just to the west was the Marine Hotel, since closed and replaced with housing.
Muchalls Viaduct is to the north and Muchalls Mill Viaduct to the south.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
03/05/2020
| Nearby stations Newtonhill Limpet Mill Portlethen Stonehaven Milltimber [1st] Milltimber [2nd] Murtle Cove Bay Culter [2nd] Culter [1st] Bieldside West Cults Cults Pitfodels Halt Drum | Muchalls Viaduct Muchalls Mill Viaduct Elsick Viaduct Limpet Corn Mill Den of Cowie Viaduct Glenury Viaduct Fetteresso Viaduct Aberdeen Fish Meal Factory Carron Water Bridge [East Croft of Carmont] Tourist/other Glenury Royal Distillery Dunnottar Castle Fetteresso Castle Ardoe House Murtle House Dunnottar Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/02/1850 | Aberdeen Railway Line extended north from Limpet Mill to Portlethen. Limpet Mill, a short lived terminus, closed. Muchalls and Portlethen opened. |
| 04/12/1950 | Aberdeen Railway Muchalls closed. |
