Strichen
Location type
StationName and dates
Strichen (1865-1965)Opened on the Formartine and Buchan Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station with a passing loop on a single track line. The main station building was on the east/north bound platform, on the town side of the station. There was a goods yard on the north side, approached from the west.
The building was on the original platform, the loop opening after the line.
The signal box, dating from 1891, was at the west end of the westbound platform, midway along the loop.
To the west the line crossed the North Ugie Water.
The station closed to passengers in 1965 and the box closed in 1966.
The line closed in 1979.
The platforms survive and the trackbed is now a footpath. The main station building is now a house.
Local
Tags
Station footpathExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Mormond Halt Brucklay [2nd] Abbey of Deer Halt Pitfour Curling Club Platform Maud Mintlaw Lonmay Rathen Philorth Halt Longside Kirkton Bridge Halt Philorth Bridge Halt Fraserburgh Auchnagatt St Combs | Middlemuir Peat Works Lonmay Ballast Pit New Pitsligo Peat Works Philorth Bridge Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Works Sandhaven Meal Mill Sandhaven Shipyard Tourist/other Strichen House Brucklay Castle Pitfour Lake Deer Abbey Memsie Cairn Philorth House Cairnbulg Castle Sandhaven Harbour |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 24/04/1865 | Formartine and Buchan Railway Maud to Fraserburgh opened. Stations opened at Brucklay [2nd], Strichen, Mormond, Rathen and Fraserburgh. |
| 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. |
| 27/06/1966 | Formartine and Buchan Railway Strichen signal box closed. |
Books
 Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong |
