This railway is closed. The railway provided a service from Banchory to Aboyne. The line was an extension of the Deeside Railway from Aberdeen and was itself extended to Ballater by the Aboyne and Braemar Railway.
27/07/1857 | [Deeside Extension Railway] Act receives Royal assent. |
30/10/1857 | [Deeside Extension Railway] First sod cut. |
02/12/1859 | [Deeside Extension Railway] Railway opened. Stations at Banchory, Glassel, Torphins, Dess and Aboyne |
02/12/1859 | [Deeside Railway] Banchory (1rst) closed to passengers on opening of [Deeside Extension Railway]. |
13/05/1862 | [Deeside Extension Railway] Line leased by [Great North of Scotland Railway] to block authorisation of a new line from Stonehaven to Kintore. |
/ /1865 | [Deeside Railway] [Deeside Extension Railway] [Aboyne and Braemar Railway] Royal couriers first use line rather than Cairnwell pass road to get to Balmoral from the south. |
30/07/1866 | [Deeside Railway] [Deeside Extension Railway] [Aboyne and Braemar Railway] [Great North of Scotland Railway] Deeside lines leased for 999 years by Great North of Scotland Railway. |
01/08/1875 | [Deeside Extension Railway] [Great North of Scotland Railway] Deeside Extension Railway absorbed by Great North of Scotland Railway. |
/ /1958 | [Deeside Extension Railway] Battery railcar introduced between Aberdeen and Ballater. |
18/07/1966 | [Deeside Railway] [Deeside Extension Railway] [Aboyne and Braemar Railway] Ballater to Culter closed to freight. |
These locations are along the line.
The terminus of the Deeside Railway opened from Aberdeen in 1853. It was rebuilt in 1859 when the Deeside Extension Railway extended the railway west to Aboyne.
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This was a three platform station; two through platforms and a bay platform at the east end, north side of the line. The platforms were canopied.
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This was a timber platform to the west of Banchory [2nd] station. It was located just to the west of Dee Street. It was short lived, only opening in 1961 and the halt and line closed in 1966.
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Glassel was a single platform station on the north side of the single track line. It had a station building typical of the extension line with a railway cottage to its immediate east.
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This was, latterly, a two platform station in the middle of Torphins.
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This was a five arch single track viaduct over the Beltie Burn between Torphins and Lumphanan stations.
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This was a two platform station on the single track Deeside line from Aberdeen to Ballater. The station site is now housing but the memory of it is preserved in the name 'Station Square', the square which bordered the north side of the station at its west end.
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This was a single platform station.
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This was a two platform station. The main station building was on the eastbound platform. This had a large glazed canopy.
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