This was a two platform station to the north east of Summerhill, now known as Newmachar. The main station building was on the northbound platform, the town side.
There was a goods yard at the north end of the west side, approached from the northbound platform line.
North and south signal boxes opened in 1890. The boxes were at either end of the northbound platform. The south box was a minor box and by 1901 its signals were controlled by the north box.
There was a deep cutting to the north of the station known as 'Satan's Den' as it was sometimes blocked with snow in winter.
The station closed to passengers in 1965. Both boxes closed. The line closed in 1979.
The station building is now a house and the trackbed a long distance footpath.
Nearby stations Udny Parkhill Pitmedden Dyce [1st] Dyce Logierieve Kinaldie Stoneywood Blackdog (Strabathie Brick Works) Esslemont Bankhead [Aberdeenshire] Berryhill (Murcar Golf Club) Kintore [1st] Kintore Bucksburn | Parkhill Viaduct Raith^s Farm Sidings Dyce Quarries Dyce Creosote Works Stoneywood Paper Works Strabathie Brick Works Blackburn [Aberdeenshire Town] Tourist/other Elrick House Elrick Signal Box St Fergus Church - Dyce Symbol Stones Pitmeddan Garden Aberdeen Airport Tolquhon Castle Boat of Kintore Level Crossing Kinkell Church |
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. |
18/07/1861 | Formartine and Buchan Railway Opened from Dyce (Great North of Scotland Railway) to Old Deer and Mintlaw. Stations opened at Parkhill, Newmachar, Udny, Newburgh Road, Esslemont, Ellon, Arnage, Auchnagatt, Brucklay [1st] and Old Deer and Mintlaw. |
18/01/1960 | Formartine and Buchan Railway Train stuck in snow north of Newmachar. |
02/10/1965 | Formartine and Buchan Railway Fraserburgh to Dyce junction closed to passengers. (Alternative date 4/10/1965). Fraserburgh, Rathen, Mormond Halt, Strichen, Brucklay [2nd], Maud, Arnage, Ellon, Logierieve, Udny and Newmachar closed. |
09/12/1965 | Formartine and Buchan Railway Newmachar signal box closed. |
16/08/2021 | How to cut half a million car journeys and 32k tonnes of carbon in a year? A new regional railway is the answer [Evening Express] |
28/08/2020 | Revamp for former station site [Grampian Online] |
Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong |