Port Elphinstone
Location type
StationName and dates
Port Elphinstone (1854-1854)Station code: PEL National Rail
Opened on the Great North of Scotland Railway.
Description
This location is south of Inverurie. There was a halt of some description in 1854 - perhaps railway staff only. It did not remain in use as a station.
A goods yard was built here. A short goods line ran north west to Port Elphinstone Goods, actually in Port Elphinstone. This branch was approached from the south. By reversal from this branch a loading bank and goods shed was reached, located on the west side of the line. A road approached the goods yard from the village. The branch entered the village to serve a corn mill, by the former AberdeenCanal, and a small yard.
The railway was doubled between Kintore [1st] and Inveramsay in 1882. A new signal box opened to the south, Port Elphinstone Signal Box. Sidings here served Port Elphinstone Mills (1858-2009). The branch was altered, the connection being moved south to be via a headshunt with a trailing connection.
See Port Elphinstone Goods.
Tags
Short lived station mills sidings07/11/2019
| Nearby stations Inverurie [1st] Inverurie Kintore Kintore [1st] Lethenty Kemnay Kinaldie Inveramsay Fingask Halt Oldmeldrum Pitcaple Pitmedden Newmachar Monymusk Wartle | Don Viaduct Port Elphinstone Mills Port Elphinstone Goods Inverurie Paper Mill Inverurie Works Kintore Sand Pit Siding Forest Siding Tavelty? Saw Mill Tom^s Forest Quarry Lethenty Mill Tourist/other Port Elphinstone Ground Frame Kinkell Church Bruce^s Camp Brandsbutt Stone Boat of Kintore Level Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Canal BasinPort Elphinstone is named for the canal basin which was at the extreme end of the Aberdeenshire Canal from Aberdeen. The canal was closed to allow construction of the railway. The railway did not exactly follow the course of the former canal but criss-crossed over it many times between Port Elphinstone and Aberdeen. |
Chronology Dates
| / /1805 | Aberdeenshire Canal Opened from Port Elphinstone, Inverurie, to Aberdeen Harbour. The Great North of Scotland Railway later used its course for its line between Port Elphinstone and Aberdeen Waterloo. |
