Date: 08/08/2022

A public meeting will take place on Wednesday in Peterhead to discuss the vision to return trains to the Buchan coast.

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A public meeting will take place on Wednesday in Peterhead to discuss the vision to return trains to the Buchan coast.

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View north from the footbridge at Newmachar station on 15 August 1960 as B1 4-6-0 no 61352 waits at the platform with empty stock on its way to Ellon for storage on the stub of the Boddam branch. The train is about to cross an Aberdeen bound DMU. [Additional information from notes taken by JR - one of the group sitting on the left.] The DMU is on a once a day run to Aberdeen for light maintenance and re-fuelling. [With thanks to DS and BJ.]
Location: Newmachar
Company: Formartine and Buchan Railway
15/08/1960 G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow

EE Type 1 no D8031 stands at Udny station on 15 August 1960 at the head of the Peterhead - Aberdeen goods. The locomotive had been delivered new to Kittybrewster shed at the beginning of the year.
Location: Udny
Company: Formartine and Buchan Railway
15/08/1960 G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow

Mormond Hill (ye Mormond Braes) seen from the brake van of the daily Fraserburgh-Aberdeen goods on 27th March 1973.
Location: Lonmay
Company: Formartine and Buchan Railway
27/03/1973 David Spaven

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