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Due to an obstruction on the track between Dyce and Inverurie all train lines are closed and disruption is expected until early afternoon.
(Permalink) Dyce Inverurie

The total number of services running from Inverurie to Aberdeen is to be reduced, but Scotrail have still to make new timetables publicly available.
(Permalink) Aberdeen Inverurie Timetable


Inverurie: The 13.33 service for Aberdeen waiting to leave Inverurie on 8 August 2014.
Jim Peebles 08/08/2014


Inverurie: 158736, on a short working from Aberdeen, waits at Inverurie before returning there. View north from the road overbridge at the south end of the station.
Mark Bartlett 30/06/2011

Scotrail is proposing a new timetable, which will also affect customers in Stonehaven, Laurencekirk and Portlethen.
(Permalink) Inverurie Laurencekirk Portlethen Stonehaven

Aberdeenshire Council's work to promote sustainability in transportation has been recognised by being shortlisted in two categories at the 'Transport Times' Scottish Transport Awards.
(Permalink) Aberdeenshire Council Ellon Fraserburgh Huntly Integrated Travel Towns Inverurie Portlethen

A failed level crossing barrier earlier between Inverurie and Dyce is adding to exisiting delays due to weather on the north-east rail network.
(Permalink) Dyce Inverurie Level crossing

Network Rail Scotland has shared images showing the full scale of flooding on the track between Aberdeen and Inverness.
(Permalink) Flooding Inverurie Network Rail River Don

An amber weather warning in eastern Scotland has been extended with flooding leading to school closures and disruption on roads and railways.
(Permalink) Aberdeen Arbroath Cancellations Dalgety Bay Dundee Flooding Grantshouse Inverness Inverurie LNER Laurencekirk Linlithgow Montrose Rain ScotRail Weather

Rail services have been hit by the weather this morning. The East Coast Line is flooded at Dalgety Bay. The Dundee-Arbroath service is suspended along with services between Aberdeen and Inverurie. ScotRail has speed restrictions on many routes.
(Permalink) Aberdeen Arbroath Cancellations Dalgety Bay Dundee Flooding Grantshouse Inverness Inverurie LNER Laurencekirk Linlithgow Montrose Rain ScotRail Weather

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(Permalink) Inverurie Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway Oldmeldrum


Inverurie: Looking north from Oldmeldrum Road, Inverurie, on the afternoon of 12 March 2019. On the left is 158712 with the 1527 Aberdeen - Inverness ready to restart from platform 1, while at platform 2 is 1587 ...
Andy Furnevel 12/03/2020


Oldmeldrum: Evening sun on Oldmeldrum station in November 2006.
John Furnevel 06/11/2006


Lethenty: The halt at Lethenty is remarkably well preserved almost 80 years after passenger services were withdrawn and 45 years after complete closure. This is the view in April 2011 facing north towards Oldme ...
John Williamson 03/04/2011

A centre piece display recreates the historic Old Meldrum to Inverurie line.
(Permalink) Inverurie Inverurie Works Old Meldrum


Inverurie Works: The refurbished offices of the GNSR Works, Inverurie, on 28 March 2018 looking east across Harlaw Road. Works buildings occupied much of the area between here and the main line, with several now conve ...
Andy Furnevel 28/03/2018


Inverurie: Looking north from Oldmeldrum Road, Inverurie, on the afternoon of 12 March 2019. On the left is 158712 with the 1527 Aberdeen - Inverness ready to restart from platform 1, while at platform 2 is 1587 ...
Andy Furnevel 12/03/2020


Oldmeldrum: Evening sun on Oldmeldrum station in November 2006.
John Furnevel 06/11/2006

Passenger numbers were down at Aberdeenshire's railway stations last year as more people stayed at home during the coronavirus pandemic, figures show.
(Permalink) Inverurie


Inverurie: Looking north from Oldmeldrum Road, Inverurie, on the afternoon of 12 March 2019. On the left is 158712 with the 1527 Aberdeen - Inverness ready to restart from platform 1, while at platform 2 is 1587 ...
Andy Furnevel 12/03/2020

Drifting snow was continuing to cause major disruption to Highland railway lines on Tuesday - despite the arrival of milder air across the region.
(Permalink) Altnabreac Ardgay Brora Dunrobin Forsinard Georgemas Junction Golspie Helmsdale Huntly Insch Inverurie Keith Kennethmont Kildonan Kinbrace Lairg Rogart Scotscalder Signalling Snow Thurso Weather Wick

Snow ploughs will return to the railway line between Keith and Inverurie today after trains were stopped in their tracks by 6ft-high drifts.
(Permalink) Huntly Insch Inverurie Keith Kennethmont Snow Weather

Rail passengers travelling on the Inverness-Aberdeen line face possible disruption over the next two weekends.
(Permalink) Aberdeen Dyce Elgin Huntly Insch Inverness Inverurie Keith Kintore Nairn

Commitment to decarbonise passenger rail services by 2035. Plans to decarbonise Scotland's rail passenger services by 2035 have been launched by Transport Secretary Michael Matheson today.



Railscot note - PDF page 8 shows electrification of lines by 2035:

- Glasgow - Aberdeen - Inverurie

- All lines in Fife including Levenmouth

- Highland Main Line

- Borders line

- Glasgow - Barrhead - Dumfries - Carlisle

- East Kilbride

- Kilmarnock - Ayr

- Anniesland - Maryhill

Partial electrification or alternative technology:

- Ayr- Girvan

- Inverurie - Inverness - Tain

Battery or alternative technology:

- West Highland Lines

- Far North Line

- Kyle Line

- Girvan - Stranraer
(Permalink) Aberdeen Barrhead Battery train Borders line Dumfries East Kilbride Electrification Far North Line Fife Girvan Highland Main Line Inverurie Kilmarnock Kyle Line Levenmouth Maryhill Stranraer Tain West Highland Lines


Scotland: Transport Scotland - Rail Services Decarbonisation Action Plan for 2035. Lines shown in red are to be electrified. Those in yellow to be alternative traction, possibly prior to electrification. Those ...
Transport Scotland 28/07/2020

Plans for a railways revolution in the north-east aimed at boosting commuter links to and from Aberdeen are back on track.
Transport chiefs want more frequent services for travellers heading in and out of the city for work from towns such as Inverurie and Stonehaven.
And a wish-list of new stations has been drawn up - including Kintore, Persley, Kittybrewster, Cove and Newtonhill - which is facing major expansion with a new town at Chapelton of Elsick.
(Permalink) Aberdeen Chapelton of Elsick Cove Inverurie Kintore Kittybrewster Newtonhill Persley Stonehaven


Newtonhill: Site of the former Newtonhill station between Stonehaven and Aberdeen, closed to passengers in June 1956. View north in November 2006.
John Furnevel 09/11/2006


Cove: A class 47 takes a container train north towards Aberdeen through the site of the former Cove station on 07 December 1974.
John McIntyre 07/12/1974


Kittybrewster [2nd]: B1 no 61242 Alexander Reith Gray running south wrong-line through Kittybrewster station in September 1960. The locomotive is thought to be on its way from Kittybrewster shed (the top of the coa ...
K A Gray 06/09/1960

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