RAILSCOT | Urquhart

Urquhart

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Urquhart (1884-1968)

Opened on the Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway).

Description

This was a single platform station with a goods yard on its south side, approached from the west.

The platform was on the south side of the line with a timber Great North of Scotland Railway style station building.

A signal box opened with the station and was replaced with a ground frame in 1896.

There was a ballast siding to the west.

The station and line closed in 1968.

After surviving closure relatively intact until the late 1980s, the site has been cleared for housing. The road overbridge at the east end of the station has been removed.

The next station west was Calcots and the next east Garmouth.

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
09/12/2021

Nearby stations Lhanbryde Calcots Garmouth Balnacoul Halt Orbliston Fochabers Town Elgin East Spey Bay Elgin Longmorn Greens of Drainie Rifle Range Halt Coleburn^s Platform Lossiemouth Orton	Cowfords Corn Mill Cowfords Siding Orbliston Ballast Siding Lossie Junction Kingston-upon-Spey Shipyard Lossie Viaduct Fochabers Town Shed Speymouth Viaduct Elgin Gas Works Elgin Shed [2nd] Elgin East Junction Elgin East Coal Yard Tourist/other Linkwood Distillery Linksfield Level Crossing Spynie Palace
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

12/08/1885	Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway) Lossie Junction (Morayshire Railway) to Garmouth opened. Stations opened: Calcots, Urquhart and Garmouth.