Whitehouse
Location type
StationName and dates
Whitehouse (1859-1950)Opened on the Alford Valley Railway.
Description
This was a single platform station on the south of the line and to the east of the terminus, Alford.
There was a goods yard on the north side of the line, accessed from the east.
A railway cottage remains at the east end of the site. This had been on the north side of the line. The goods yard is now in other uses. At present (2018) a grounded railway coach is close to the entry.
Whitehouse itself is very small and to the south. The cluster of houses at the former station is larger.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
05/06/2018
| Nearby stations Alford Tillyfourie Monymusk Lumphanan Kemnay Buchanstone Oyne Insch Torphins Pitcaple Wardhouse Dess Kennethmont Inveramsay Glassel | Alford Shed [1st] Tillyfourie Quarry Correnie Quarry Alford Shed Monymusk Sawmill Beltie Burn Viaduct Paradise Siding Paradise Quarries Tourist/other Grampian Transport Museum Craigievar Castle Fetternear House and Bishop^s Palace Castle Fraser Peel Ring of Lumphanan East Aquhorthies Stone Circle Maiden Stone |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
News items
| 13/01/2022 | Railway electrification signals acceleration towards net zero in Scotland [The Herald] |
| 15/05/2014 | Locomotive collision at Great Central [Loughborough Echo] |
