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Formartine And Buchan Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Looking north at the former Newmachar station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/30.jpg "Newmachar")
![Looking north at the former Arnage station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/399.jpg "Arnage")
![View looking south at the former Auchnagatt station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/400.jpg "Auchnagatt")
![View looking north at the former Auchnagatt station from the roadside.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/401.jpg "Auchnagatt")
![Ballast on the trackbed at the former Parkhill station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/402.jpg "Parkhill")
![Looking north over the former station at Brucklay.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/403.jpg "Brucklay")
![Looking north at the former Ellon station. The line to Boddam branched of to the right in the distance, the main line continued straight on.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/404.jpg "Ellon")
![Looking north at the north end of the former Ellon station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/405.jpg "Ellon")
![Looking south from the north end of the island platform of the former Ellon station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/406.jpg "Ellon")
![Looking south at Elrick.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/407.jpg "Elrick Signalbox")
![View looking north at the former Esslemont station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/408.jpg "Esslemont")
![View of the locomotive shed at the former Fraserburgh terminus.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/409.jpg "Fraserburgh Shed")
![Looking north at the goods yard of the former Fraserburgh station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/411.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Looking north at the site of the former Fraserburgh terminus.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/412.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![View looking east at a former level crossing to the east of Inverugie.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/413.jpg "Inverugie")
![Looking east at the former Longside station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/414.jpg "Longside")
![Peterhead platforms at the former Maud Junction station, viewed from the north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/416.jpg "Maud")
![Fraserburgh platforms at the former Maud Junction station, viewed from the north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/417.jpg "Maud")
![Maud from the south, showing the former turntable pit.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/418.jpg "Maud")
![View looking east at the former Mintlaw station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/419.jpg "Mintlaw")
![Newmachar cutting, looking north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/421.jpg "Newmachar")
![The former Newmachar station, looking south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/422.jpg "Newmachar")
![The former Parkhill station, looking north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/423.jpg "Parkhill")
![The former Parkhill station, looking south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/424.jpg "Parkhill")
![The former Peterhead terminus, now a school, looking east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/425.jpg "Peterhead")
![The former Philorth station, looking north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/426.jpg "Philorth")
![View looking north at the former Rathen station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/427.jpg "Rathen")
![Looking east over the former Newseat station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/428.jpg "Newseat")
![Looking north at the former Strichen station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/429.jpg "Strichen")
![Looking north at the former Udny station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/430.jpg "Udny")
![Looking south over the former Logierieve station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/431.jpg "Logierieve")
![Scene at Fraserburgh in the 70s.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/17000/17277.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![View along the platform towards the buffer stops at Fraserburgh in the 1970s. On the left stand the remains of Fraserburgh shed, latterly one of four sub-sheds of 61A Kittybrewster, the others being Ballater, Inverurie and Peterhead. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/17000/17329.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The Waterloo and Buchan Railtour during the stop at Maud Junction in the 1970s.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/17000/17785.jpg "Maud")
![<I>Something to remember you by...</I> Railtour at Fraserburgh in the 1970s.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/17000/17790.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Photostop at Ellon on a railtour in the 1970s.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/17000/17822.jpg "Ellon")
![An up fish express from Fraserburgh passing Lonmay in 1945. G.N.S.R. 4.4.0 6826.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1945]](/images/15000/15586.jpg "Lonmay")
![Fraserburgh - Aberdeen train leaving Fraserburgh. G.N.S.R. 4.4.0 6829.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1945]](/images/15000/15599.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Aberdeen train leaving Fraserburgh. G.N.S.R. 4.4.0 6831 (in background). G.N.S.R. 4.4.0 6826 shunting.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1945]](/images/15000/15600.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Up passenger entering Lonmay. G.N.S.R. 4.4.0 6824.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1945]](/images/15000/15603.jpg "Lonmay")
![Driver G Cockburn poses for the photographer on the footplate of Holden F4 2-4-2 tank no 7164 at Fraserburgh in the summer of 1947. The train about to depart is the 4.15pm to St Combs. The 1907 Stratford built locomotive survived until August 1951, when it was withdrawn from Kittybrewster shed as BR 67164.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1947]](/images/48000/48146.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![2.59pm Aberdeen train leaving Fraserburgh. GNSR 4.4.0 2261 (26). <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow /08/1947]](/images/16000/16370.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![GNS 4.4.0 2229 (82) outside Fraserburgh. Driver J Robb (Aberdeen).<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow /08/1947]](/images/16000/16372.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Ex-GNSR 4-4-0 62231 brings a train into Fraserburgh in July 1948.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow /07/1948]](/images/56000/56067.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Maud Junction. Peterhead train straight ahead.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/07/1948]](/images/7000/7395.jpg "Maud")
![Ex-NB Holmes D31 4-4-0 no 62065 shunting at Fraserburgh in the summer of 1948. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/07/1948]](/images/48000/48206.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![GNSR D41 4-4-0 no 62231 backing onto the Fraserburgh portion of a train at Maud on 30 July 1948.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 30/07/1948]](/images/49000/49690.jpg "Maud")
![Holden ex-GER B12 4-6-0 No 61560 of Kittybrewster shed, photographed at Fraserburgh on 19th May 1949. [Editor's note: Bottom left is a young JR]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/05/1949]](/images/47000/47761.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Looking back along the platform at Peterhead in May 1949. The locomotive is B1 no 61345, one month old at the time.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/05/1949]](/images/47000/47845.jpg "Peterhead")
![Ex-LMS 2P 4-4-0 no 622 at Fraserburgh on 19 May 1949. The locomotive eventually received its BR number 40622 in May 1951 and carried it for a further 10 years until withdrawn from Keith shed in May 1961. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/05/1949]](/images/48000/48571.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![B12 4-6-0 61529 leaving Fraserburgh on 19 May 1949 with the 9.10 am train for Aberdeen.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/05/1949]](/images/50000/50800.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![A train leaving Peterhead for Aberdeen on 19 May 1949. B1 4-6-0 no 61345 had been delivered new from Gorton works to Ferryhill six weeks earlier, before being moved across the city to Kittybrewster three days before this photograph was taken. [Ref query 17693]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/05/1949]](/images/52000/52399.jpg "Peterhead")
![B1 61146 leaving the yard at Fraserburgh on 19 May 1949 with a freight for Aberdeen. The locomotive had been delivered new from the Vulcan Foundry to Kittybrewster shed approximately two years earlier. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/05/1949]](/images/53000/53527.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![GNSR D40 4-4-0 62261 enters Strichen from the south on 20 May 1949.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 20/05/1949]](/images/48000/48803.jpg "Strichen")
![A freight train fails to turn the head of a young JR as it passes north through Strichen station towards Fraserburgh on 20 May 1949. The locomotive is ex-GNSR D40 4-4-0 no 62261. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 20/05/1949]](/images/50000/50951.jpg "Strichen")
![A fish train leaving Fraserburgh on 5 July 1950 hauled by Holden ex-GER B12 4-6-0 no 61552.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/07/1950]](/images/54000/54120.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![D40 4-4-0 62272 approaching Fraserburgh on 5 July 1950.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/07/1950]](/images/55000/55565.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Ex-GNSR D41 4-4-0 62228 brings an up train into Mormond station on 6 July 1950.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1950]](/images/48000/48849.jpg "Mormond")
![62228 at Mormond on 6 July 1950 with a train for Fraserburgh.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1950]](/images/51000/51061.jpg "Mormond")
![Ex-GER Holden B12 4-6-0 61526 leaving Fraserburgh with a long goods train on 7 July 1950. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/07/1950]](/images/52000/52369.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Ex-GNSR D41 4-4-0 62229 at Rathen station on Friday 7 July 1950 with the midday train for Aberdeen. [Ref query 5943]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/07/1950]](/images/54000/54028.jpg "Rathen")
![Ex-GNSR D41 4-4-0 62229 at Rathen on 7 July 1950 with a Fraserburgh - Aberdeen train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/07/1950]](/images/54000/54583.jpg "Rathen")
![Ex-GNSR 4-4-0 no 62230 on the turntable at Fraserburgh on 12 July 1950.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 12/07/1950]](/images/47000/47883.jpg "Fraserburgh Shed")
![D1 4-4-0 62230 passing Philorth Halt on 12 July 1950 with a Fraserburgh - Aberdeen train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 12/07/1950]](/images/52000/52748.jpg "Philorth Halt")
![D41 4-4-0 62230 passing Philorth Halt with a train for Aberdeen on 13 July 1950.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 13/07/1950]](/images/49000/49633.jpg "Philorth Halt")
![B1 61323 pilots B12 61511 out of the yards at Fraserburgh on 13 July 1950 with an express fish train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 13/07/1950]](/images/51000/51694.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![D41 4-4-0 no 62229 leaves a smokescreen over a busy Fraserburgh goods yard on 15 July 1950 as it gets underway with the mid-day train for Aberdeen.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/07/1950]](/images/47000/47978.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![GNSR D40 4-4-0 no 62279 <I>Glen Grant</I> complete with freight and crew, standing in the yard at Fraserburgh in the summer of 1951. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/07/1951]](/images/48000/48553.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![B1 4-6-0 61352 brings a fish train out of the yards at Fraserburgh on 2 July 1951. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 02/07/1951]](/images/53000/53060.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![GNSR D40 4-4-0 no 62272 leaving Peterhead with a train for Maud on 4 July 1951.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1951]](/images/48000/48016.jpg "Peterhead")
![Six miles out of Peterhead, ex-GER 4-6-0 61511 passes westbound through Longside on 4 July 1951 with a fish train heading for Aberdeen.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1951]](/images/48000/48784.jpg "Longside")
![B1 4-6-0 61134 leaving Peterhead on 4 July 1951. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1951]](/images/49000/49440.jpg "Peterhead")
![Ex-GER B12 4-6-0 no 61511 arriving at Peterhead on 4 July 1951 with a train from Aberdeen. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1951]](/images/50000/50321.jpg "Peterhead")
![B12 4-6-0 61511 on the turntable at Peterhead in the summer of 1951. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1951]](/images/50000/50473.jpg "Peterhead")
![Scene at Inverugie, Aberdeenshire, first station out of Peterhead, on 4 July 1951. View is west towards Maud Junction with an unidentified coach standing in the bay platform. [Ref query 38055] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1951]](/images/52000/52143.jpg "Inverugie")
![The station, signal box and goods yard at Longside on the Peterhead line, photographed on 4 July 1951, looking west towards Maud. Longside station closed to passengers in 1965.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1951]](/images/52000/52341.jpg "Longside")
![Looking back towards the buffer stops at Peterhead on 4 July 1951. Waiting with a train in the background is D40 4-4-0 no 62272. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1951]](/images/52000/52834.jpg "Peterhead")
![Scene at Longside, midway between Maud Junction and Peterhead, on 4 July 1951. Ex-GNSR D40 4-4-0 no 62272 is entering the station with a down train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1951]](/images/53000/53571.jpg "Longside")
![Ex-GNSR D40 4-4-0 no 62272 standing alongside the signal box at Peterhead on 4 July 1951.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1951]](/images/53000/53943.jpg "Peterhead")
![D40 4-4-0 62272 leaving Mintlaw with an up train on 4 July 1951. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/07/1951]](/images/56000/56004.jpg "Mintlaw")
![Ex-GNSR 4-4-0 no 62270 stands on Fraserburgh shed in the summer of 1951. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1951]](/images/50000/50613.jpg "Fraserburgh Shed")
![Ex-GNSR D40 4-4-0 62279 <I>Glen Grant</I> passing Kirkton in 1951 with an Aberdeen - Fraserburgh train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/07/1951]](/images/57000/57615.jpg "Kirkton")
![B12 4-6-0 61524 awaiting its departure time at Fraserburgh in the summer of 1951.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/07/1951]](/images/49000/49926.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![A Fraserburgh - Aberdeen goods passing Kirkton on 7 July 1951 hauled by ex-GNSR D40 4-4-0 62261.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/07/1951]](/images/57000/57464.jpg "Kirkton")
![Mailbags await as D40 4-4-0 no 62272 arrives at Mintlaw with a train from Peterhead in July 1951.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1951]](/images/48000/48719.jpg "Mintlaw")
![Ex-GNSR coaches on the St Combs branch train standing at Fraserburgh in the summer of 1953. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow /08/1953]](/images/48000/48291.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![An up goods from Fraserburgh photographed passing Kirkton on 4 August 1953 behind 62469 <I>Glen Douglas</I>. The 4-4-0 had been reallocated from Eastfield to Kittybrewster some 4 months earlier. On the right the St Combs branch is starting to turn away towards the coast.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/08/1953]](/images/48000/48281.jpg "Kirkton")
![Class D40 4-4-0 no 62276 <I>Andrew Bain</I> stands alongside Fraserburgh box in August 1953. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/08/1953]](/images/48000/48695.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![A freight climbing Mormond Hill, Aberdeenshire, on a summer evening in August 1953. The train is hauled by D40 4-4-0 no 62276 <I>Andrew Bain</I>. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/08/1953]](/images/55000/55623.jpg "Mormond")
![GNSR 4-4-0 62276 <I>Andrew Bain</I> at Kirkton with a down passenger train in the summer of 1953.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/08/1953]](/images/51000/51723.jpg "Kirkton")
![Ivatt 2-6-0 46460 passing Fraserburgh golf course on 7 August 1953 with a train from St Combs. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/08/1953]](/images/53000/53615.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![BR Standard class 4 tank 80021 pilots Gresley K2 61782 <I>Loch Eil</I> near Philorth Halt on 9 August 1953 at the head of a lengthy fish train from Fraserburgh. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/08/1953]](/images/48000/48415.jpg "Philorth Halt")
![Class 2P 4-4-0 no 40650 announces its departure from the yard at Fraserburgh on 12 August 1953 as it gets underway with a London bound fish train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 12/08/1953]](/images/48000/48884.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Class D40 4-4-0 no 62276 <I>Andrew Bain</I> brings an Aberdeen train into Fraserburgh on 13 August 1953. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 13/08/1953]](/images/52000/52521.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![J36 0-6-0 65339 leaves Fraserburgh with the goods on 17 April 1954.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 17/04/1954]](/images/50000/50089.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![BR Standard class 4 tank no 80028 leaves a smokescreen over the north end of Maud in April 1954 as it arrives with a train off the Peterhead line. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/04/1954]](/images/47000/47857.jpg "Maud")
![A train about to leave Maud for Aberdeen on 19 April 1954 behind BR Standard class 4 80028.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/04/1954]](/images/55000/55654.jpg "Maud")
![Standard class 4 tank 80020 pilots LMS 2P 40622 past Kirkton on 4 August 1954 with a lengthy fish train southbound from Fraserburgh. Running in parallel on this side of the fence is the St Combs branch. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/08/1954]](/images/49000/49384.jpg "Kirkton")
![Ex-NB 4-4-0 No 62493 <I>Glen Loy</I> about to cross Kessock Road with the goods on 4 August 1954.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/08/1954]](/images/50000/50019.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Gresley K2 2-6-0 no 61779 on shed at Fraserburgh on 5 August 1954. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 05/08/1954]](/images/48000/48132.jpg "Fraserburgh Shed")
![A train arriving at Fraserburgh on 6 August 1954. The locomotives are Gresley K2 2-6-0 61779 and BR Standard 2-6-4 tank 80021. Double heading of passenger trains was used to bring in locomotives for the extra fish trains required during the herring season. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/08/1954]](/images/48000/48372.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![2P 4-4-0 no 40663 takes the midday passenger train over Kessock Road, Fraserburgh, in the summer of 1954 [see image 19557].<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/08/1954]](/images/48000/48355.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Gresley K2 2-6-0 no 61779 takes an up goods from Fraserburgh past Kirkton on 7 August 1954. At this point the main line to Aberdeen is running parallel with the St Combs branch on the other side of the fence.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 07/08/1954]](/images/52000/52130.jpg "Kirkton")
![LMS 2P 4-4-0 40603 at Maud in April 1955 with a train for Peterhead. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/04/1955]](/images/48000/48820.jpg "Maud")
![BR Standard 2-6-4 tank 80004 calls at Auchnagatt on 9 April 1955.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/04/1955]](/images/49000/49105.jpg "Auchnagatt")
![BR Standard tank 80020 calls at Auchnagatt on 9 April 1955 with an Aberdeen bound train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 09/04/1955]](/images/50000/50351.jpg "Auchnagatt")
![A mixed train preparing to leave Fraserburgh for Aberdeen in April 1955. Locomotive in charge is BR Standard 2-6-4 tank no 80004, delivered new to Kittybrewster shed two and a half years earlier.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/04/1955]](/images/47000/47790.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Gresley V4 2-6-2 no 61700 <I>Bantam Cock</I> stands on Fraserburgh shed in the summer of 1955. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 13/07/1955]](/images/47000/47834.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Gresley V4 2-6-2 no 61700 <I>Bantam Cock</I> passes through Rathen station on 14 July 1955 heading towards Aberdeen with an up 'officer's special'. [See image 47834]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 14/07/1955]](/images/49000/49578.jpg "Rathen")
![80021 arrives at Fraserburgh on 16 July 1955 with a train from Aberdeen. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1955]](/images/47000/47896.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![BR Standard tank 80029 passing Kirkton on 16 July 1955 with a train for Aberdeen.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/07/1955]](/images/57000/57135.jpg "Kirkton")
![Standard tank 80021 passing Kirkton with a train for Fraserburgh in July 1955. [Ref query 6935] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/07/1955]](/images/51000/51704.jpg "Kirkton")
![Kittybrewster shed's palindromic Standard Class 4 tank no 80108 on the turntable at Fraserburgh in the summer of 1956. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 04/08/1956]](/images/48000/48452.jpg "Fraserburgh Shed")
![Standard tank 80021 leaving Fraserburgh with a train for Aberdeen on 12 August 1958.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 12/08/1958]](/images/50000/50482.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Buchan tanks. 80112 at Udny on up passenger.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/11000/11229.jpg "Udny")
![Buchan tanks. 80111 at Logierieve on down passenger.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/11000/11230.jpg "Logierieve")
![Buchan tanks. 80004 crossing Ythan Viaduct on up passenger in May 1959. [See image 51098]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/11000/11232.jpg "Ythan Viaduct")
![Looking north at Ellon on 15 May 1959. The Station Hotel is just visible on the left of the picture.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/11000/11233.jpg "Ellon")
![Buchan stations. Logierieve.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/11000/11235.jpg "Logierieve")
![General view of Brucklay station in May 1959.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/11000/11236.jpg "Brucklay")
![Arriving. 80005 at Arnage on up Buchan passenger train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/11000/11237.jpg "Arnage")
![Leaving. 80005 at Arnage on up Buchan passenger train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/11000/11238.jpg "Arnage")
![40604 approaching Auchnagatt station on 15 May 1955 with a freight for Fraserburgh.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/11000/11240.jpg "Auchnagatt")
![BR Standard 2-6-4T 80111 runs south through Auchnagatt on 15 May 1959 with a Peterhead - Aberdeen freight.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/11000/11248.jpg "Auchnagatt")
![The 1861 station at Esslemont in May 1959 looking north towards Ellon. The station closed to passengers in 1952. [Ref query 9807]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/48000/48767.jpg "Esslemont")
![BR Standard tank 80113 with a freight taking on water alongside Maud signal box in May 1959. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/49000/49205.jpg "Maud")
![BR Standard 2-6-4 tank 80028 runs through Ellon station with a fish train in May 1959.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/49000/49354.jpg "Ellon")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 76108 brings a down passenger train into Arnage station on 15 May 1959. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/49000/49489.jpg "Arnage")
![BR standard 2-6-4 tank 80005 photographed at Maud in the spring of 1959 in the process of dividing the Fraserburgh and Peterhead portions of a recent arrival from Aberdeen. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/52000/52100.jpg "Maud")
![View north on 15 May 1959 as BR Standard Tank 80113 pulls away from Maud with a freight from Peterhead following a water stop alongside Maud signal box. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/52000/52197.jpg "Maud")
![Standard class 4 2-6-0 76108 approaching Maud on 15 May 1959 with an up train. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/05/1959]](/images/54000/54394.jpg "Maud")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 76108 leaving Brucklay with an up passenger train on 16 May 1959. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/05/1959]](/images/51000/51172.jpg "Brucklay")
![An up train at Brucklay on 16 May 1959 behind BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76108.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 16/05/1959]](/images/53000/53240.jpg "Brucklay")
![J36 0-6-0 65303 leaving Fraserburgh on 18 August 1959 with a goods train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/08/1959]](/images/52000/52580.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![J36 0-6-0 no 65310 with an up goods near Rathen on 19 August 1959. [Ref query 11125]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/08/1959]](/images/48000/48228.jpg "Rathen")
![View west showing a DMU forming a down Buchan line train crossing the River Don on Parkhill Viaduct, north of Dyce, in the summer of 1960. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1960]](/images/47000/47815.jpg "Parkhill Viaduct")
![Looking north towards Newmachar station on 15 August 1960. [Ref query 6943]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1960]](/images/47000/47826.jpg "Newmachar")
![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 for storage on the stub of the Boddam branch. The train is about to cross an Aberdeen bound DMU. [Additional info from notes taken by JR - one of the group sitting on the left]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1960]](/images/48000/48057.jpg "Newmachar")
![NBL Type 2 D6150 photographed near Udny on 15 August 1960 with a fish and parcels train on its way from Fraserburgh to Aberdeen. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1960]](/images/48000/48083.jpg "Udny")
![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.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1960]](/images/48000/48100.jpg "Udny")
![A Fraserburgh bound goods at Newmachar on 15 August 1960 behind D6139. The short-lived NBL Type 2 had been delivered new to Kittybrewster shed 6 months earlier but would be withdrawn by the end of 1967. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1960]](/images/49000/49038.jpg "Newmachar")
![B1 61352 about to enter Newmachar on 15 August 1960 with empty stock destined for Ellon.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/08/1960]](/images/53000/53981.jpg "Newmachar")
![NBL Type 2 D6150 with a freight near Rathen on 18 August 1960.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/08/1960]](/images/48000/48915.jpg "Rathen")
![A Fraserburgh - Aberdeen DMU passing Kirkton shortly after commencing its journey south on 18 August 1960. On the right the St Combs branch is starting to turn east towards the coast.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/08/1960]](/images/51000/51665.jpg "Kirkton")
![NBL Type 2 D6140 climbing Mormond Hill with a freight in August 1960. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 19/08/1960]](/images/49000/49266.jpg "Mormond")
![A DMU leaving Fraserburgh for Aberdeen on 18 August 1961, passing NBL Type 2 no D6156 (then less than a year old) standing in the yard with a freight. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/08/1961]](/images/47000/47866.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![NBL Type 2 no D6155 prepares to take a freight out of Fraserburgh goods yard in August 1961.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/08/1961]](/images/48000/48508.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![NBL Type 2 no D6155 with the 2.45pm fish for Billingsgate loading in Fraserburgh goods yard on 18 August 1961. The locomotive had been delivered new to Kittybrewster shed a year earlier. Note the BR Scammell road vehicle.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/08/1961]](/images/48000/48676.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![NBL Type 2 D6165 with a freight in Fraserburgh goods yard on 18 August 1961.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 18/08/1961]](/images/50000/50695.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![An unidentified NBL Type 2 leaving Fraserburgh in 1962 with a mixed train for Aberdeen. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow //1962]](/images/48000/48660.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![NBL Type 2 D6148 arrives at Ellon with a northbound train in July 1963.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1963]](/images/19000/19541.jpg "Ellon")
![NBL Type 2 D6148 leaves Ellon with a northbound train in July 1963. Redundant coaching stock can be seen stored on the stub of the Boddam Branch to the right of the Island Platform.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1963]](/images/21000/21842.jpg "Ellon")
![D6141 stands ready to leave Fraserburgh with the 3.15pm train for Aberdeen on 2 September 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 02/09/1963]](/images/22000/22594.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![NBL Type 2 no D6141 about to take the 3.15pm train for Aberdeen out of Fraserburgh station in September 1963. Fraserburgh locomotive shed stands on the left.<br><br>[K A Gray 02/09/1963]](/images/22000/22835.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Black fumes from an NBL Type 2 blot an otherwise perfect sky as the 12.25pm Aberdeen-Fraserburgh train powers away from Newmachar on Saturday 1st May 1965.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 01/05/1965]](/images/30000/30155.jpg "Newmachar")
![Classic BR uniforms glimpsed at Ellon from the 12.25 Aberdeen-Fraserburgh train on Saturday 1st May 1965, with driver and secondman hanging out of the NBL Type 2 at the front (yes, a diesel locomotive). The Station Master - identified by the copious gold braid - is Alastair Farquhar, who hailed from Buckie. He had previously been based at lonely Riccarton Junction, and would face yet more change in five months' time when passenger trains were withdrawn from the Fraserburgh and Peterhead lines. [With thanks to Bruce McCartney]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 01/05/1965]](/images/32000/32277.jpg "Ellon")
![Cross-platform interchange for passengers and parcels at Maud Junction. Photograph taken from the 12.25pm Aberdeen-Fraserburgh train on Saturday 1st May 1965. NBL Type 2 D6152 is standing at the adjacent platform with the 1.30pm departure for Peterhead.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 01/05/1965]](/images/33000/33014.jpg "Maud")
![The NBL Type 2s were, for a few years following dieselisation, the staple locomotive on Buchan line trains. In this photograph, having attached a portion off the 3.20pm ex-Peterhead [see image 37410], the 3.15pm train from Fraserburgh (from which the photograph is taken) is pulling away from Maud Junction to continue its journey south to Aberdeen. Meantime, the driver of the Peterhead train is about to rejoin his locomotive in order to carry out some shunting operations.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 01/05/1965]](/images/34000/34889.jpg "Maud")
![Fish to the fore - lots of 'door to door' wooden containers provide evidence of BR's important role in the movement of fish. Seen from the passenger station platform at Fraserburgh on Saturday 1st May 1965.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 01/05/1965]](/images/37000/37137.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Looking back from the 3.15pm Fraserburgh - Aberdeen following its arrival at Maud Junction on 1 May 1965. The train is now pulling out of the south end of the station prior to reversing back in order to attach a portion of the 3.20pm ex-Peterhead on the right. The locomotive and remaining vehicles off the Peterhead train are now standing on the east side of the island platform. [See image 34889]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 01/05/1965]](/images/37000/37410.jpg "Maud")
![The south end of the Fraserburgh station / yard complex seen from the rear of the 2.15 pm DMU to St Combs on Saturday 1st May 1965, the last day of branch services.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 01/05/1965]](/images/40000/40330.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The driver of NBL Type 2 D6149, heading the 3.15pm Fraserburgh-Aberdeen train on 1st May 1965, exchanges single line tokens with the signalman at Strichen.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 01/05/1965]](/images/41000/41191.jpg "Strichen")
![Totem from passenger station at Fraserburgh, closed October 1965.<br><br>[John Williamson 03/10/1965]](/images/20000/20572.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The GNSRA <I>Formartine & Buchan Railtour</I> to Peterhead and Fraserburgh, heading south at Brucklay station behind D5323 on 24 May 1969. [With thanks to John Williamson for additional information.] <br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 24/05/1969]](/images/17000/17885.jpg "Brucklay")
![View north at Maud on 24 May 1969 showing D5323 with the GNSRA <I>Formartine & Buchan Excursion</I> railtour on a photo stop. <br>
<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 24/05/1969]](/images/23000/23576.jpg "Maud")
![D5323 prepares to take the <i>Formartine and Buchan Railtour</i> out of Peterhead on 24 May 1969. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1965, although freight operations at the busy fishing port continued for a further 5 years. Nothing of the railway remains here today, with the site now occupied by Peterhead Academy [see image 17391].<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 24/05/1969]](/images/23000/23893.jpg "Peterhead")
![View south at Maud Junction on 24 May 1969 showing D5323 at the head of the GNSRA <I>Formartine and Buchan Railtour</I>. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 24/05/1969]](/images/23000/23911.jpg "Maud")
![View over the buffer stops at Peterhead on 24 May 1969 showing D5323 at the platform with the <I>Formartine and Buchan Railtour</I> preparing to return to Aberdeen.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 24/05/1969]](/images/23000/23927.jpg "Peterhead")
![The GNSR <I>Formartine and Buchan Excursion</I> stands at Mintlaw on the Peterhead branch on 24 May 1969. For the first 6 years of its existence, this 1861 station carried the name <I>Old Deer and Mintlaw</I>, making it sound rather like one of the <I>Connoisseur Range</I> of Baxter's soups. <br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 24/05/1969]](/images/23000/23945.jpg "Mintlaw")
![The returning <I>Formartine and Buchan Excursion</I>, with D5323 in charge, makes a photostop at Ellon on 24 May 1969. View is north towards Maud Junction. The old goods yard and Boddam branch line were on the right of the island platform.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 24/05/1969]](/images/23000/23959.jpg "Ellon")
![The GNSR <I>Formartine and Buchan Excursion</I>, with D5323 in charge, makes a scheduled photo-stop at Longside station on 25 May 1969.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 24/05/1969]](/images/23000/23986.jpg "Longside")
![The <I>Formartine and Buchan Excursion</I> on a photostop at Arnage on 24 May 1969. View is south towards Ellon, with D5323 at the head of the train.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 24/05/1969]](/images/24000/24009.jpg "Arnage")
![View of Fraserburgh station and yard from Links Road bridge in the summer of 1972. At this time the basic integrity and general condition of the abandoned site was still fairly good and it is not hard to imagine how it had been 7 or 8 years earlier. However the next couple of years were not so kind, and the building of an adventure playground on the site of the old turntable only accelerated the inevitable vandalism, which up to this point had been negligible.<br><br>[John Williamson //1972]](/images/17000/17873.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![View from the Fraserburgh links of a class 24 with the Saturday morning goods to Aberdeen in the late spring/early summer of 1972.<br><br>[John Williamson //1972]](/images/18000/18791.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Rathen station looking south on a spring evening in 1972. The loop here had been removed in 1894, and by this time only the road overbridge gave a clue to its existence.<br><br>[John Williamson //1972]](/images/21000/21331.jpg "Rathen")
![A class 26 and two fish vans on the Saturday freight leave Fraserburgh in the spring of 1972.<br><br>[John Williamson //1972]](/images/21000/21334.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Halcyon days long gone - a Class 26 looks lost shunting in the wide open spaces of Fraserburgh goods yard in February 1973, more than 7 years after the withdrawal of passenger services.<br><br>[David Spaven /03/1973]](/images/26000/26979.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![No Health & Safety Executive in those days! Fly-shunting at Maud Junction on 27 March 1973.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven 27/03/1973]](/images/30000/30107.jpg "Maud")
![Loading fish for the London market at Fraserburgh on 27th March 1973. This and other insulated vans would leave on the (late morning) daily goods to Aberdeen where it would form part of the consist of the dedicated early afternoon fish train from Aberdeen to Kings Cross. [See image 45182] <br><br>[David Spaven 27/03/1973]](/images/32000/32177.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![D5308 shunts Maud Junction on the daily Aberdeen-Fraserburgh goods on 27th March 1973. Note the parcels van - this traffic continued at Fraserburgh long after the withdrawal of passenger trains in 1965. <br><br>[David Spaven 27/03/1973]](/images/32000/32196.jpg "Maud")
![Double-take time! Newmachar's signal test gantry seen from the brake van of the daily Fraserburgh-Aberdeen goods on 27th March 1973. <br>
<br><br>[David Spaven 27/03/1973]](/images/32000/32233.jpg "Newmachar")
![The daily goods from Aberdeen runs into Fraserburgh behind D5308 on a glorious March morning in 1973. The photographer and his chum David Fasken each paid the First Class equivalent fare for the luxury of travel in the brake van - money well spent!<br><br>[David Spaven 27/03/1973]](/images/32000/32296.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Class 26 no D5308 shunts the daily goods in Fraserburgh yard on 27th March 1973.<br><br>[David Spaven 27/03/1973]](/images/33000/33430.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The morning sun illuminates 5308 shunting Maud Junction on 27 March 1973 prior to heading the daily goods from Aberdeen onwards to Fraserburgh.<br><br>[David Spaven 27/03/1973]](/images/35000/35946.jpg "Maud")
![Mormond Hill, near Strichen, seen from the brake van of the daily Fraserburgh-Aberdeen goods on 27th March 1973.<br><br>[David Spaven 27/03/1973]](/images/36000/36072.jpg "Strichen")
![D5308 shunts seed potato wagons at Maud Junction en route to Fraserburgh on 27th March 1973.<br><br>[David Spaven 27/03/1973]](/images/37000/37407.jpg "Maud")
![The guard and shunter of the daily goods from Aberdeen pose for the camera at Fraserburgh on 27th March 1973.<br><br>[David Spaven 27/03/1973]](/images/41000/41496.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![<I>Aye, it can be a smelly old business...</I> Fish boxes bound for London being loaded into vans at Fraserburgh 10 years to the day after Beeching - 27th March 1973. The stance of the gentleman on the right says it all. [See image 32177]<br><br>[David Spaven 27/03/1973]](/images/43000/43380.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The exterior of the passenger station at Fraserburgh taken in July 1973.<br><br>[John G. Williamson /07/1973]](/images/13000/13683.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Not many more years of track maintenance to be done at Fraserburgh, as a PW gang gets on with the task in hand in late 1974, five years before complete closure.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/27000/27191.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![A dull and overcast day at Fraserburgh in 1974 as a Class 24 shunts coal and van traffic for Aberdeen.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1974]](/images/27000/27490.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The graceful station roof at Ellon survives in 1974, nine years after the withdrawal of passenger services.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1974]](/images/28000/28103.jpg "Ellon")
![With a reasonable load in tow, a Class 24 heads the daily goods away from Fraserburgh in late 1974, five years before closure. <br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/28000/28334.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Three sidings full of vans at Fraserburgh freight depot in late 1974 with one of the ubiquitous yellow NCL road vehicles on the right. <br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/36000/36945.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![A class 24 with the daily freight from Fraserburgh skirts the dunes as it heads back towards Aberdeen in the summer of 1974.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/37000/37775.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The railway scene at Fraserburgh in late 1974. In the far right distance, a Class 24 shunts the remains of the yard, while to the left all track has long been removed from the passenger station platforms.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/37000/37905.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![A Permanent Way squad at work on the outskirts of Fraserburgh in late 1974.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/38000/38217.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![A permanent way squad at work on the outskirts of Fraserburgh in late 1974. <br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/39000/39659.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![A gloomy day in late 1974 as 24103 prepares to take the daily freight to Aberdeen away from Fraserburgh.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/39000/39687.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Hard graft for two of the Buchan line PW gang at Fraserburgh in late 1974.<br><br>[David Spaven //1974]](/images/42000/42098.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Drivers - eye view approaching Auchnagatt on a railtour on 01 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/11000/11498.jpg "Auchnagatt")
![The Angus Rail Group 'Buchan Belle' railtour at Fraserburgh on 01 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/11000/11499.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The remains of the station at Fraserburgh on 01 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/11000/11502.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Approach to Maud Junction on 01 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/11000/11504.jpg "Maud")
![The Angus Rail Group 'Buchan Belle' Railtour at Fraserburgh on 01 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/11000/11511.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Handing back the token at Dyce after returning from Fraserburgh with the Buchan Belle railtour on 01 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/11000/11512.jpg "Dyce")
![DMU driver on return railtour from Fraserburgh to Aberdeen in 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/11000/11519.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The Buchan Belle Railtour at Maud Junction on 01 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/11000/11520.jpg "Maud")
![Arnage station, 1 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/11000/11525.jpg "Arnage")
![The Buchan Belle Railtour halted at Strichen on 01 June 1974 during the return trip from Fraserburgh.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/11000/11526.jpg "Strichen")
![Approaching Ellon in June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/11000/11529.jpg "Ellon")
![A 2 car Metro-Cammell DMU sits amongst the remains of the goods yard at Fraserburgh on 01 June 1974 with the Buchan Belle railtour.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/15000/15665.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Scene at Maud on 1 June 1974 with the <I>Buchan Belle</I> at the platform. Note the clothes and hairstyles of the day! [Editors note: A serious complaint has been received concerning this caption from a Mr Roberton asking <I>'Whats wrong with the clothes and hairstyles?... by the way, that's me in the 4 foot!!!'</I>] [See image 15675]<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/15000/15672.jpg "Maud")
![Drivers view approaching Ellon in June 1974 - the trackbed and platform that once served the Boddam branch can be seen on the right.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/15000/15694.jpg "Ellon")
![Looking towards the town from the goods platform at Fraserburgh on 01 June 1974. The station is over to the left.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/15000/15701.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Drivers view approaching Strichen from the south on 01 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/15000/15709.jpg "Strichen")
![The <I>Buchan Belle</I> Railtour at Udny on 01 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/15000/15736.jpg "Udny")
![View south from the goods platform at Fraserburgh on 01 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/15000/15737.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The <I>Buchan Belle</I> railtour at Maud Junction on 01 June 1974. View south..lovely day...err...no other comments. <br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/15000/15765.jpg "Maud")
![The Angus Railway Group railtour arriving at Fraserburgh on a dull summers day in June 1974.<br><br>[John Williamson 01/06/1974]](/images/17000/17377.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![A DMU standing in the goods yard at Fraserburgh on 01 June 1974 with the Buchan Belle railtour.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/17000/17717.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![View south from Maud Junction on 01 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/17000/17723.jpg "Maud")
![<I>Where did I leave that red flag?</I> The <I>Buchan Belle</I> DMU railtour stopped at Udny on 01 June 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre 01/06/1974]](/images/17000/17735.jpg "Udny")
![The Angus Rail Group tour on the return from Fraserburgh passing the sidings at the Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Company works (a.k.a. <I>the Toolies</I>). The Toolies, like the railway itself, is now just a memory having closed in the early 1980s. (The trackbed of the St Combs branch can be seen on the nearside of the railway fence.)<br><br>[John Williamson 01/06/1974]](/images/18000/18787.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The <I>Buchan Belle</I> Railtour makes a photostop at Ellon on 1 June 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/06/1974]](/images/36000/36034.jpg "Ellon")
![The Angus Rail Group <I>'Buchan Belle'</I> railtour stands at Fraserburgh on 1 June 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/06/1974]](/images/37000/37093.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The remains of Fraserburgh shed in June 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/06/1974]](/images/37000/37104.jpg "Fraserburgh Shed")
![The <I>'Buchan Belle'</I> railtour makes a photostop at Strichen in June 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/06/1974]](/images/37000/37121.jpg "Strichen")
![The <I>'Buchan Belle'</I> railtour in Fraserburgh goods yard on 1 June 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/06/1974]](/images/37000/37186.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The <I>Buchan Belle</I> rail tour at Maud on 1 June 1974... [See image 15672]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/06/1974]](/images/50000/50672.jpg "Maud")
![Unidentified class 26 heads the rescue train from Aberdeen Ferryhill in Fraserburgh goods yard on a late summers evening in July 1975. Loco 24118, which had derailed earlier in the day, awaits attention.<br><br>[John Williamson 09/07/1975]](/images/17000/17367.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Class 24 loco 24118 in the process of being re-railed in the yard at Fraserburgh on a late summers evening in July 1975.<br><br>[John Williamson 09/07/1975]](/images/17000/17368.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![25065 stands at Maud in 1977.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/13000/13335.jpg "Maud")
![Brucklay looking to Aberdeen in 1977. Following line closure, the derelict station building has since been converted into a house and the road bridge has gone.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/58000/58375.jpg "Brucklay")
![Newseat station on the Peterhead line, closed in 1965 and derelict by 1977 when this photo was taken. It has since been completely rebuilt and is now a fine house.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/60000/60190.jpg "Newseat")
![The remains of Mintlaw station, on the Peterhead line, photographed in 1977. Mintlaw and the other branch stations had closed twelve years earlier in 1965. [See image 48719]<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/60000/60204.jpg "Mintlaw")
![The building on the up Buchan line platform at Dyce station in September 1977.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /09/1977]](/images/35000/35730.jpg "Dyce")
![A permanent-way gang working on the Buchan branch trap points at Dyce station in September 1977.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton /09/1977]](/images/35000/35734.jpg "Dyce")
![An unidentified class 25 with the Fraserburgh - Aberdeen goods, heads south from the village of Strichen across the viaduct over the river Ugie during a blizzard at the end of 1978. The viaduct still stands today, forming part of the Formartine and Buchan way.<br><br>[John Williamson /11/1978]](/images/17000/17415.jpg "Strichen")
![Photostop at Strichen on a railtour from Aberdeen in 1979.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1979]](/images/17000/17849.jpg "Strichen")
![A class 26 picks up the freight from the goods yard at Maud on the return leg of the daily Craiginches - Fraserburgh goods run in the spring of 1979.<br><br>[John Williamson /03/1979]](/images/17000/17696.jpg "Maud")
![Class 26 on departure from Maud junction after the daily goods pickup on the return leg of the Craiginches to Fraserburgh run in the early spring of 1979. (At this point in the life of the line it was mainly seed potato traffic from Maud that was paying its way).<br><br>[John Williamson /03/1979]](/images/17000/17731.jpg "Maud")
![Maud Fixed Distant (South). Even though there is only 6 months to go to final closure, line clearance is still being done. (Network Rail please note).<br><br>[John Williamson /03/1979]](/images/19000/19156.jpg "Maud")
![Maud fixed distant (north). Looking south to the village of Maud on a fine spring evening in March 1979. [See image 19158]<br><br>[John Williamson /03/1979]](/images/19000/19157.jpg "Maud")
![Railtour at Ellon station looking south in April 1979.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /04/1979]](/images/13000/13124.jpg "Ellon")
![The BLS Waterloo and Buchan Railtour pauses for a photostop at Strichen in April 1979 with railcar 55007 on the return leg to Aberdeen. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore /04/1979]](/images/19000/19784.jpg "Strichen")
![Railcar 55007 stands at the platform at Maud in April 1979 on a Branch Line Society Railtour.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 16/04/1979]](/images/19000/19761.jpg "Maud")
![The Branch Line Society <I>Waterloo & Buchan Railtour</I> stands at Maud Junction on 16 April 1979.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 16/04/1979]](/images/31000/31216.jpg "Maud")
![Bubble car 55007 approaching the Ythan viaduct, Ellon, heading north on the BLS railtour during the last year of operation on the Buchan line [see image 11232].<br><br>[John Williamson 16/04/1979]](/images/32000/32325.jpg "Ythan Viaduct")
![View north through the platforms at Ellon in April 1979.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 16/04/1979]](/images/32000/32752.jpg "Ellon")
![The very last goods train at Fraserburgh on the 5th October 1979. Jim Morrison, one-time signalman at Fraserburgh, and latterly railwayman at Maud is pointing out something of interest to the driver of 27020. The location of the long since demolished signal box perhaps?<br><br>[John Williamson 05/10/1979]](/images/17000/17381.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Fraserburgh on the last day, 5th October 1979. Loco 27020 waits patiently at the goods loading bank for the cue to return to Aberdeen and bring 114 years of railway history in the north-east to an end. <br><br>[John Williamson 05/10/1979]](/images/27000/27565.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Fraserburgh from the Links Road bridge looking south, a month after final closure. The two roads on the right latterly formed the loop, but were the St. Combs (middle) and Aberdeen (right) lines when passenger services operated. The foundations of the signal box can be seen at the bottom left. <br>
The line remained in this limbo state only for a few months and track lifting commenced in early 1980. This part of the railway is now occupied by the Harbour Access Road, completed in 1987.<br><br>[John Williamson 02/11/1979]](/images/27000/27585.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Brucklay station pictured on 3 November 1979, a month after final closure of the Fraserburgh branch. The track is still in situ at this point in time but would be gone by the middle of the following year.<br><br>[John Williamson 03/11/1979]](/images/18000/18909.jpg "Brucklay")
![Scene at Fraserburgh on 3 November 1979, one month after the last freight left, with the deserted goods yard awaiting its fate. The goods van at the far right had been condemned a few years previously and would be scrapped along with the rest of the assets at the end of January 1980.<br><br>[John Williamson 03/11/1979]](/images/33000/33442.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![A view familiar to generations of Fraserburgh folk (of a certain age). Looking east down Kessock Road towards the beach in June 1980. The Aberdeen to Fraserburgh line was lifted by this time, but the bridges and solum survived for a short while afterwards. This view has now completely disappeared, including the promenade bridge, (just visible behind the railway bridge), which has also been filled in.<br><br>[John Williamson /06/1980]](/images/17000/17852.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Fraserburgh Station and locomotive shed circa 1981.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 01/06/1981]](/images/17000/17284.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![The platforms of Lonmay station looking north towards Fraserburgh in February 1997. Preparations for turning the trackbed into a footpath/cycleway were getting underway at this time. [Ref query 5363]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /02/1997]](/images/45000/45759.jpg "Lonmay")
![The former Philorth station is now a house. This is the view looking north from the former level crossing.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 02/02/1997]](/images/60000/60863.jpg "Philorth Halt")
![The former Fraserburgh locomotive shed in 1997. To the right was the station (now the B9033), goods yard (industrial estates and rough ground) and the harbour which is still in use. [See image 47834]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/02/1997]](/images/38000/38317.jpg "Fraserburgh Shed")
![View north at Mormond in 1997. The trackbed had only very recently been turned into a footpath.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/02/1997]](/images/38000/38332.jpg "Mormond")
![Not much left to go ... in February 1997 only two stretches of the F&BR trackbed were left to be converted into footpaths: Rathen to Mormond and north of Brucklay to Maud. This was the display board at Rathen which announced the new walking route's near completion.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/02/1997]](/images/38000/38335.jpg "Rathen")
![Udny station had a substantial goods yard (now a football pitch). This 1997 view looks north from the former signalbox (foreground, left) towards the station platforms and goods yard. Sadly the station buildings have not survived and housing now stands on the site of the southbound platform building.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/02/1997]](/images/38000/38357.jpg "Udny")
![Mintlaw looking towards Maud Junction in 1997. At that time the building was in a good state of repair, although out of use. It is now much more of a ruin and heavily overgrown here.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/02/1997]](/images/38000/38395.jpg "Mintlaw")
![A 1997 view north east over the former station at Maud Junction. The turntable pit and goods yard are in the foreground and the four platforms of the junction station beyond with the buildings now in other uses. The photograph was taken from this angle for comparison with the photograph on the back cover of 'The Story and Tales of the Buchan Line'.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/02/1997]](/images/38000/38401.jpg "Maud")
![View north at Maud Junction, November 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/11/2006]](/images/12000/12417.jpg "Maud")
![Surviving turntable pit to the south of Maud Junction in November 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/11/2006]](/images/12000/12418.jpg "Maud")
![Looking north along the trackbed at Newmachar in November 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/11/2006]](/images/12000/12533.jpg "Newmachar")
![Approach to Maud station in November 2006. View is south with the Peterhead route to the left and Fraserburgh to the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/11/2006]](/images/12000/12627.jpg "Maud")
![Not the station, but called Station House, Longside - view north in November 2006. It was not the station itself, this was to the west of station and over bridge. It has been substantially rebuilt since this photograph was taken.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/11/2006]](/images/12000/12639.jpg "Longside")
![Up platform of Mintlaw Station on the Maud to Peterhead section of the Formartine and Buchan railway. <br><br>[John Williamson 01/09/2007]](/images/17000/17386.jpg "Mintlaw")
![The front of Mintlaw Station on the Maud to Peterhead section of the Formartine and Buchan railway. <br><br>[John Williamson 01/09/2007]](/images/17000/17387.jpg "Mintlaw")
![The fine building at the former Newseat halt on the Maud to Peterhead line has been restored as a private dwelling. The mile-post finishes it off nicely. View looking west on 1 Sepember 2007.<br><br>[John Williamson 01/09/2007]](/images/17000/17389.jpg "Newseat Halt")
![The site of Peterhead goods yard and passenger station, now occupied by Peterhead Academy. The goods yard more or less covered the area now taken up by the car parks, while the school buildings on the right are situated where the passenger terminus used to be.<br><br>[John Williamson 01/09/2007]](/images/17000/17391.jpg "Peterhead")
![View north from the site of the A950 bridge demolition on 19 January over the location of the former Brucklay station, which is clear of serious growth for the first time in a long while.<br><br>[John Williamson 19/01/2008]](/images/17000/17781.jpg "Brucklay")
![A last look at the A950 road over-bridge at Brucklay before demolition, looking south from the former station towards Maud Junction. Until recently this bridge was almost totally obscured at ground level by trees and vegetation.<br><br>[John Williamson 19/01/2008]](/images/17000/17782.jpg "Brucklay")
![After a gap of more than 40 years one of the Fraserburgh totems returns <I>home</I>. The building on the right is the engine shed and within a couple of yards or so of that there was a totem on one of the passenger platforms which ran immediately adjacent to the engine shed, from right to left. The location of the old turntable is immediately behind the engine shed and the lorry.<br><br>[John Williamson 24/05/2008]](/images/20000/20573.jpg "Fraserburgh Shed")
![The Fraserburgh platforms at Maud Junction looking south towards Aberdeen on 27 May 2012, with trees and shrubs continuing to encroach. Difficult now to imagine passengers for the Broch and Peterhead, refreshment room and newspaper stand, cattle and fish trains for the south and the long running seed potato traffic. [See image 38974] <br>
<br><br>[Brian Taylor 27/05/2012]](/images/38000/38968.jpg "Maud")
![The Fraserburgh Platforms at Maud Junction, looking north on 27 May 2012 [see image 38968].<br><br>[Brian Taylor 27/05/2012]](/images/38000/38974.jpg "Maud")
![The modest but elegant entrance to the Station Hotel, Maud, in May 2012. Above the main entrance the words <I>Station Hotel</I> are incorporated within the stained glass. The hotel is located approximately 50 yards from the former station, which closed in October 1965. <br><br>[Brian Taylor 27/05/2012]](/images/38000/38997.jpg "Maud")
![The old Esso depot at Maud in June 2012. Incorporated into the corrugated iron boundary fence is a van body, presumably used as the office. The depot is located in the V of the junction of the former lines to Fraserburgh and Peterhead immediately north of station. [See image 39084]<br><br>[Brian Taylor 01/06/2012]](/images/39000/39058.jpg "Maud")
![Located within the corrugated iron boundary fence of the former Esso Oil Depot at Maud Junction station is this evocative structure, photographed on 1 June 2012. The old depot itself stands within the V of the junction to the north of the station. [See image 39058]<br><br>[Brian Taylor 01/06/2012]](/images/39000/39084.jpg "Maud")
![The railway goods offices at Fraserburgh, built in 1953, still survive in 2012 and are now under the ownership of the local authority social work department. My father rented the office at the bottom left for his business around 1963 and I spent a lot of time there with him as a schoolboy, which sort of explains my interest in railways!<br><br>[John Williamson 12/08/2012]](/images/39000/39936.jpg "Fraserburgh")
![Looking south west about 1 mile from Lonmay station towards Mormond Hill and Strichen in August 2013. Thanks to the vegetation this view has changed considerably over the past 40 years [see image 36072].<br><br>[John Williamson 18/08/2013]](/images/44000/44261.jpg "Lonmay")
![Looking north towards the Ythan Viaduct on 21 April 2015. Beyond the river stood Ellon Station and the junction for the Boddam branch. The line across the viaduct closed to all traffic in 1979 and is now part of the Formartine and Buchan Way. Photographed from the footpath running north from Snipe Street. [Ref query 5998] [See image 11232]<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 21/04/2015]](/images/51000/51098.jpg "Ythan Viaduct")
![Invitation to the proprietors of the Formartine and Buchan Railway to attend an Extraordinary General Meeting of the company, held at the Royal Hotel, Union Street, Aberdeen, on 7 June 1866.<br>
<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 11/05/2015]](/images/23000/23842.jpg "Plates, signs and notices")
![A well preserved surfaceman's hut alongside the old trackbed of the Buchan line at the hamlet of Tillyeve looking north towards nearby Udny along the cycle path in November 2015. [Ref query 8797]<br><br>[Brian Taylor /11/2015]](/images/53000/53270.jpg "Udny")
![The southern entrance to Satan's Den on the Buchan line, just north of Newmachar station, on 14th November 2015. The location was given the satanic name by the Buchan railwaymen as the long, very deep cutting was prone to filling with snow over its lifetime. Notable rescues to trapped trains were carried out right up until the 1960s.<br><br>[Brian Taylor 14/11/2015]](/images/53000/53273.jpg "Newmachar")
![The level crossing at Tillyeve on the Buchan line, between Newmachar and Udny. The gates and posts are in surprisingly good condition given that passenger traffic ceased in 1965 and the line closed completely in 1979. The crossing keepers cottage is on the left. This view looks north to nearby Udny in November 2015. <br><br>[Brian Taylor 14/11/2015]](/images/53000/53275.jpg "Udny")
![This picture, looking south towards Dyce, is of the new bridge being constructed for the Aberdeen bypass as it crosses the Buchan line at Goval just north of Dyce.<br>
The bridge is being constructed with enough room for reinstatement of a single track, hopefully.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 16/10/2016]](/images/56000/56892.jpg "Parkhill")
![View looking north. There is a tremendous amount of traffic going in to Aberdeen from Peterhead, Ellon etc by road, I would think it will be cheaper than the Borders railway to reinstate the line as it's fairly clear.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 23/10/2016]](/images/56000/56970.jpg "Parkhill")
![The old station at Newmachar with the signal box base on the foreground.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 03/01/2017]](/images/57000/57721.jpg "Newmachar")
![Station hotel in Ellon. Both main line platforms are intact, hopefully passengers will be able to make use of the Hotel again while waiting for a train to Aberdeen in the not too distant future.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 03/01/2017]](/images/57000/57815.jpg "Ellon")
![The old locomotive shed at Fraserburgh in March 2017, looking north east towards the harbour from the car park of Fraserburgh leisure centre. The building is part of a wholesale fish merchants located off South Harbour Road. [See image 38317]<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 15/03/2017]](/images/58000/58481.jpg "Fraserburgh Shed")
![Taken just north of Dyce where the new Aberdeen western bypass crosses the Buchan line formation, Pleased to see a bit of forward planning as the bridge is wide enough for two lines to be relaid, hopefully Scotrail HST will be running up to Fraserburgh and Peterhead.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 14/05/2017]](/images/59000/59312.jpg "Parkhill")
![Maud station on 6th August 2017. A couple of wagons are on display here and I believe this was used for taking prisoners to and from Peterhead jail.<br>
<br><br>[Alan Cormack 06/08/2017]](/images/60000/60465.jpg "Maud")
![The annual <I>Railway Relay Race</I> from Peterhead to Ellon took place on 6th August 2017. This is a minor road crossing and the remains of a bridge abutment half way between Auchnagatt and Ellon where the runners changed over.<br>
<br><br>[Alan Cormack 06/08/2017]](/images/60000/60488.jpg "Ellon")
![A short (Very!) wheel base wagon, built in Rotherham by Harrison and Camm in 1913, awaiting restoration at Maud station on 6th August 2017. <br><br>[Alan Cormack 06/08/2017]](/images/60000/60500.jpg "Maud")
![I spotted this old railway carriage a few years ago at the road junction of the A90 /A952 a couple of miles north of Ellon. It's on a metal chassis. I think the red wooden bench is a later addition. The property is up for sale so I don't think it will last much longer. The adjoining shed has been for wood working and the factory notices are dated 1922. It is past saving I think.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 15/08/2017]](/images/60000/60792.jpg "Ellon")
![I spotted this old railway carriage a few years ago at the road junction of the A90 /A952 a couple of miles north of Ellon. It's on a metal chassis. The property is up for sale so I don't think it will last much longer. The adjoining shed has been for wood working and the factory notices are dated 1922. It is past saving I think.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 15/08/2017]](/images/60000/60793.jpg "Ellon")
![Half a mile to the east of Strichen the railway crosses a minor road. The bridge looks quite precarious but at least it survived unlike many on the route. This is now part of the Formartine and Buchan Way.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 15/08/2017]](/images/60000/60833.jpg "Strichen")
![The viaduct at Ellon over the River Ythan is now on The Formartine and Buchan Way.<br><br>[John Gray 23/08/2017]](/images/60000/60702.jpg "Ythan Viaduct")
![The viaduct at Ellon over the River Ythan has a telegraph pole still in situ on the east parapet with a support forged from a rail.<br><br>[John Gray 23/08/2017]](/images/60000/60715.jpg "Ythan Viaduct")
![The view south towards Dyce on the River Ythan viaduct at Ellon. The line is now The Formartine and Buchan Way.<br><br>[John Gray 23/08/2017]](/images/60000/60727.jpg "Ythan Viaduct")
