RAILSCOT | Original signs refurbished and reinstated at new Kintore railway station after decades in a farmers shed [Press and Journal]

Original signs refurbished and reinstated at new Kintore railway station after decades in a farmers shed [Press and Journal]

04/09/2020
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Date: 04/09/2020

Vintage railway signs will once again welcome passengers to Kintore when the communitys new £14.5 million station opens next month.

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Vintage railway signs will once again welcome passengers to Kintore when the communitys new £14.5 million station opens next month.

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Kintore

This new two platform station is under construction to the north west of Kintore. In addition the railway, which had been reduced to a single track, was re-doubled in 2019 (see below). The station

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ScotRail 158707, on the 14:20 departure from Inverurie to Inverness, passes through the new platforms at Kintore on 22nd August 2019.
Location: Kintore
Company: Great North of Scotland Railway
22/08/2019 Duncan Ross

The 1854 station at Kintore, Aberdeenshire, looking north on 12th August 1958. Class J38 0-6-0 65911 is passing southbound, ex-works from Inverurie. In the middle distance beyond the signal box the branch to Alford (left) and the main line to Keith divide. Kintore station closed in December 1964.
Location: Kintore [1st]
Company: Great North of Scotland Railway
12/08/1958 David Murray-Smith

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Original signs refurbished and reinstated at new Kintore railway station after decades in a farmers shed [Press and Journal]

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