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Banff, Portsoy And Strathisla Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Looking east at the former Banff terminus.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/201.jpg "Banff")
![Looking south at the former Grange North Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/203.jpg "Grange North Junction")
![Looking north at the former Millegan station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/205.jpg "Millegan")
![Glenbarry station when intact, view looking north.<br><br>[Roy Lambeth //]](/images/0/975.jpg "Glenbarry")
![Ladysbridge on the Banff line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7348.jpg "Ladysbridge")
![The now demolished terminus at Banff.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/11000/11733.jpg "Banff")
![Banff station looking west.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/12000/12937.jpg "Banff")
![View over Banff station in the summer of 1948, with ex-GNSR D41 4-4-0 2246 entering from Tillynaught.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/07/1948]](/images/57000/57911.jpg "Banff")
![A train approaching Banff on 14 July 1950 behind ex-GNSR 4-4-0 62251.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1950]](/images/56000/56855.jpg "Banff")
![Scene at Banff station on 14 July 1950, with ex-GNSR 4-4-0 62251 alongside the platform.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1950]](/images/57000/57517.jpg "Banff")
![Scene at Banff station in the summer of 1950, with ex-GNSR D41 4-4-0 62251 at the platform.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1950]](/images/60000/60539.jpg "Banff")
![McIntosh 2P 0-4-4T no 55185 approaching Banff on 5 August 1953 with a train from Tillynaught.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/08/1953]](/images/57000/57098.jpg "Banff")
![Looking south towards Tillynaught Junction on 17 April 1954 as K2 2-6-0 61792 pulls away with a train for Elgin via the coast. [Ref query 49762] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/04/1954]](/images/56000/56391.jpg "Tillynaught")
![McIntosh 0-4-4T 55185 with a pair of ex-Caledonian corridor coaches at Banff station in the spring of 1954.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/04/1954]](/images/56000/56915.jpg "Banff")
![Gresley K2 2-6-0 no 61792 calls at Tillynaught Junction on Saturday 17 April 1954 with a train for Elgin via the coast. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/04/1954]](/images/59000/59988.jpg "Tillynaught")
![McIntosh ex-Caledonian 0-4-4T 55185 arriving at Banff on 12 August 1954 with a train from Tillynaught. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 12/08/1954]](/images/62000/62740.jpg "Banff")
![Ex-GNSR 4-4-0 62265 climbs away from Banff with a two-coach train in the summer of 1956. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 03/08/1956]](/images/62000/62200.jpg "Banff")
![View north of the main line platforms at Tillynaught in 1959. The Banff branch platform is beyond the building to the right.<br><br>[David Murray-Smith 11/09/1959]](/images/62000/62504.jpg "Tillynaught")
![78054 with a train at Ladysbridge in the summer of 1960 on its way from Banff to Tillynaught. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/08/1960]](/images/56000/56191.jpg "Ladysbridge")
![Keith based BR Standard class 2 2-6-0 78054 simmers at the platform at Banff in the summer of 1960.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/08/1960]](/images/56000/56742.jpg "Banff")
![BR Standard tank 80121 prepares to leave Tillynaught Junction in the summer of 1960 with a train for Elgin via the coast.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/08/1960]](/images/56000/56552.jpg "Tillynaught")
![A Banff - Tillynaught train arrives at Ladysbridge station on 18 August 1960 hauled by BR Standard class 2 2--6-0 no 78054. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/08/1960]](/images/61000/61020.jpg "Ladysbridge")
![BR Standard tank 80121 entering Tillynaught Junction on 18 August 1960 with a train destined for Elgin via the coast. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/08/1960]](/images/62000/62506.jpg "Tillynaught")
![Standard Class 4MT 80114 under the trainshed of the terminus at Banff on 13/04/61.<br><br>[David Murray-Smith 13/04/1961]](/images/62000/62459.jpg "Banff")
![78053 runs east alongside the links at Banff in August 1961.<br><br>[John Robin 11/08/1961]](/images/6000/6729.jpg "Golf Club House Halt")
![78053 enters Banff from Tillynaught.<br><br>[John Robin 11/08/1961]](/images/6000/6755.jpg "Banff")
![BR Standard class 2 2-6-0 no 78053 returning to Banff through the links on 11 August 1961. [See image 37750]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/08/1961]](/images/56000/56144.jpg "Golf Club House Halt")
![BR Standard class 2 2-6-0 no 78053 photographed at Golf Club House Halt, shortly after leaving Banff for Tillynaught on 11 August 1961.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/08/1961]](/images/63000/63426.jpg "Golf Club House Halt")
![78054 leaves Banff for Tillynaught.<br><br>[John Robin 22/08/1963]](/images/6000/6682.jpg "Banff")
![78054 at Banff with train for Tillynaught.<br><br>[John Robin 22/08/1963]](/images/6000/6683.jpg "Banff")
![78054 bound for Banff and a DMU on an Elgin to Aberdeen service via the coast standing at Tillynaught Junction in August 1963.<br><br>[John Robin 22/08/1963]](/images/6000/6684.jpg "Tillynaught")
![BR Standard class 2 2-6-0 78045, approaching with a train from the Banff direction, is about to pass over Inverboyndie level crossing on 23 August 1963. [Ref query 15240] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 23/08/1963]](/images/56000/56072.jpg "Inverboyndie Level Crossing")
![BR Standard class 2 2-6-0 78045 photographed shortly after setting out from the terminus at Banff on 23 August 1963 on its way to Tillynaught. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 23/08/1963]](/images/57000/57753.jpg "Banff")
![BR Standard class 2 2-6-0 78045 photographed near Tillynaught Junction on 23 August 1963 with a train for Banff. [Ref query 1003]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 23/08/1963]](/images/59000/59030.jpg "Tillynaught")
![Looking east towards Banff at Inverboyndie level crossing on 23 August 1963. [Ref query 6 November 2017] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 23/08/1963]](/images/61000/61608.jpg "Inverboyndie Level Crossing")
![A dreich day at Tillynaught Junction, just after 8pm on Saturday 4 May 1968, with the driver of the final coast train from Aberdeen to Elgin exchanging tokens with the Tillynaught signalman. Meantime, the last eastbound train (hauled by Birmingham Type 2 D5331) waits in the passing loop.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven 04/05/1968]](/images/26000/26417.jpg "Tillynaught")
![D5331 with the final Moray Coast train from Elgin to Aberdeen waits to cross its westbound equivalent at Tillynaught Jct on 4 May 1968.<br><br>[David Spaven 04/05/1968]](/images/31000/31312.jpg "Tillynaught")
![Last glimpse of the rural rail elegance of Tillynaught Junction, on 2nd November 1968. Looking north along the branch platform towards Banff, which had recently lost its freight services - passenger trains having succumbed in 1964. On the left stands the final Elgin-Buckie-Aberdeen passenger train.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven 02/11/1968]](/images/30000/30365.jpg "Tillynaught")
![A late summer 1974 view of the forlorn frontage of what had been 'Banff Goods Station' until the last freight trains ran in May 1968. Passenger services from the branch junction at Tillynaught were withdrawn in 1964.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/30000/30120.jpg "Banff")
![Banff's abandoned station - just a stone's throw from the Moray Firth - photographed in late summer 1974.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/37000/37814.jpg "Banff")
![The ex-GNSR station building at Cornhill, Aberdeenshire (closed May 1968) photographed in 1977.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/36000/36688.jpg "Cornhill")
![The 1859 terminus at Portsoy, replaced 25 years later by a new through station when the line was extended west. Seen here in September 1977, the old train shed still survives alongside Seafield Place. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton /09/1977]](/images/35000/35666.jpg "Portsoy (Old)")
![Station sign from Glenbarry.<br><br>[Roy Lambeth //1988]](/images/0/970.jpg "Glenbarry")
![Base of the old water tank at the former Glenbarry station, photographed looking south in 1988. Located between Cornhill to the north and Knock to the south, the station originally opened in 1859 as Barry, only to close in October 1863. Reopened under the new name of Glenbarry in February 1872 final closure eventually came in 1968. [Ref query 13360]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/48000/48629.jpg "Glenbarry")
![Remains of Knock station, Banffshire, looking north towards Tillynaught in 1997, some 29 years after closure of the line. The Knockdhu distillery stands on the right. Note the posts that once carried the station nameboard hiding amongst the trees. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/42000/42459.jpg "Knock")
![Platform scene at Cornhill, Aberdeenshire, looking north towards Tillynaught in 1997.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/42000/42660.jpg "Cornhill")
![Remains at Tillynaught Junction in 1997. View north with the Banff line to the right and main line to the left. [See image 6684] <br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/42000/42712.jpg "Tillynaught")
![The back of the waiting shelter at Ordens Halt was painted with the name of the station - here the 'O' and 'den' parts can still be made out in remaining timbers in 1997. The halt had a checkered history and finally closed in 1920. This was the first halt out of Tillynaught on the line to Banff. The hut has since been removed (or collapsed out of sight!)<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/02/1997]](/images/53000/53855.jpg "Ordens Halt")
![The view south towards Grange North Junction from the remains of the GNSR line from Elgin to Aberdeen via the coast. The double line spur to Cairnie junction was to the left of the building in the distance while the single line spur to Grange was to the right.<br>
The railway bridge is still in use as a crossing of the River Isla.<br><br>[John Williamson 19/04/2009]](/images/23000/23401.jpg "Grange Junction North")
![Trackbed of the Banff branch, just before Golf Club House Halt, looking towards Tillynaught in May 2010. Around 46 years too late to alight for the beautiful sands of Banff links! [See image 56144]<br><br>[Brian Taylor 03/05/2010]](/images/37000/37750.jpg "Golf Club House Halt")
![The site of the goods yard at Knock station, given away by the distinctive railway gates. The goods loading bank is just behind with the remains of the passenger platform adjacent to the left.<br>
The location is now owned and well maintained by the Knockdhu distillery.<br><br>[John Williamson 05/08/2010]](/images/30000/30134.jpg "Knock")
![The remains of the passenger platform at Knock looking north towards Glenbarry, with the posts for the running in board still intact. Like so many station sites nowadays it is enveloped by mature tree growth.<br><br>[John Williamson 05/08/2010]](/images/30000/30148.jpg "Knock")
![The bottom end of the Portsoy Harbour branch looking south towards harbour junction and Portsoy station on 22 August 2010. The former trackbed is now a walkway, providing an easy route between here and the old station site.<br><br>[John Gray 22/08/2010]](/images/30000/30394.jpg "Portsoy Harbour")
![Site of the throat of the former yard at Banff looking west in January 2011. <br><br>[John Williamson 22/01/2011]](/images/32000/32480.jpg "Banff")
![Cornhill station is now a private residence owned by a local joiner who has done a great job in restoring the classic GNSR wooden station to its former glory.<br><br>[John Williamson 17/12/2011]](/images/36000/36889.jpg "Cornhill")
![The 1859 terminus of the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway at Portsoy, closed to passengers in 1884 when the line was extended west [see image 39179]. This notable structure, seen in May 2012, is currently used by the local council. To the right of the building a line ran down to Portsoy Harbour passing below Seafield Street (A98) through the tunnel visible in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/2012]](/images/39000/39216.jpg "Portsoy")
![The booking office and passenger entrance to the original Portsoy terminus looking east on 23 May 2012, approximately 128 years after the last ticket was issued. The north end of the former train shed stands in the background. Just off to the right is Old Station Yard, now a council depot and recycling point. [See image 39216]<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/05/2012]](/images/39000/39409.jpg "Portsoy")
![Looking down on the site of Golf Club House Halt, Banff, on 2nd January 2014. View west along the branch towards the junction at Tillynaught [see image 6729]. The railway has gone, but 53 years on the beach shelters remain (recently restored). At the Halt site a small explosives magazine, and some iron GNoSR fence posts remain beside the trackbed. The car park has more modern occupants!<br><br>[Brian Taylor 02/01/2014]](/images/45000/45832.jpg "Golf Club House Halt")
![There is a new building on the site of Banff Station site. The station throat was located at the point marked by the yellow JCB at middle distance. The North Sea is to the immediate right of roadway. The line curved behind the row of cottages on the shoreline, on its way to Golf Club House halt and the junction with the Coast line at Tillynaught. The line closed to all traffic in 1968.<br><br>[Brian Taylor 20/10/2015]](/images/53000/53037.jpg "Banff")
![Fifty years after the end of passenger traffic, new housing appears on the site of Banff station. The three storey building occupies the site of the terminus buildings. The old Coastguard station on the hill above is a clear link to past photographs [See image 6683] from 1965. The North Sea is to the immediate left at this point while straight ahead is the site of the town gasworks (long gone) and Banff Harbour. <br><br>[Brian Taylor 20/10/2015]](/images/53000/53039.jpg "Banff")
