Portgordon
Location type
StationName and dates
Portgordon (1886-1968)Opened on the Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway).
Description
This was a single platform station with the platform on the south side of the line. The building was a typical GNSR wooden design.
There was a goods yard on the south side, approached from the east. This was closed before complete line closure.
A signal box opened with the line. It was opposite the goods yard turn out on the north side of the line.
The box closed in 1896 and a ground frame installed.
The line closed in 1968.
Part of the station site remains, a bowling green to the south occupies much of the site.
Local
The trackbed is now the National Cycle Route 1 .
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Buckpool Enzie Buckie [HR] Spey Bay Buckie [GNSR] Letterfourie Rathven Garmouth Portessie [GNSR] Portessie [HR] Fochabers Town Balnacoul Halt Findochty Portknockie Urquhart | Portgordon Maltings Cairnfield Viaduct Forsyths Works [Buckie] Buckie Shipyard Jones Buckie Shipyard Buckie Maltings Speymouth Viaduct Kingston-upon-Spey Shipyard Portessie Shed Findochty Junction Fochabers Town Shed Cowfords Siding Tourist/other Inchgower Distillery Cluny Harbour Tugnet Ice House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 21/07/1863 | Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway Extension from Portsoy [2nd] to Portgordon authorised. |
| 01/05/1886 | Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway) Tochieneal to Garmouth opened. Stations opened: Cullen, Portknockie, Findochty, Portessie [GNSR], Buckie [GNSR], Nether Buckie, Portgordon and Fochabers [GNSR]. |
Books
 Banff, Moray and Nairn's Lost Railways | Moray Coast Railways |  The Travellers Joy: The Story of the Morayshire Railway |
