Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway

Introduction

This railway is closed. The line provided a service between Inverurie on the Great North of Scotland Railway to Old Meldrum.




Dates

15/06/1855Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway
Act receives Royal assent.
26/06/1856Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway
Line opened.
  /  /1866Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway
Fingask station opened.
30/07/1866Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction RailwayGreat North of Scotland Railway
Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway absorbed by Great North of Scotland Railway. (Alternative date 14/6/1858).
10/02/1902Great North of Scotland RailwayInverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway
Inverurie (New) station opened further north. The new larger station had a bay platform for the Old Meldrum trains.
  /  /1903Great North of Scotland Railway Alford Valley Railway Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway Morayshire Railway St Combs Light Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway)
Railcars used on the Alford, Old Meldrum, Lossiemouth and St Combs lines. Bodies for these experimental railcars were built at the Inverurie Works, the steam engines were by Andrew Barclay, Sons & Co and the boilers by Cochran's Boiler Works.
02/11/1931Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway
Old Meldrum to Inverurie closed to passengers.
03/01/1966Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway
Old Meldrum to Inverurie closed to freight.
  /08/2011Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway
Old Meldrum station dismantling by the Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society begins. Work continued in April 2012. The building was re-located to Milton of Crathes.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

The original station at Inverurie was south of the current station. It had an island platform for the Aberdeen bound trains and Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway branch. The branch platform terminated with a turntable and was also a loop back onto the main line. The main station building was on the northbound platform with another on the island platform, which was accessed by ...

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Great North of Scotland Railway
Colas 70801, about to pass over Gatehouse Lane foot crossing near Inverurie, on its way down from Inverness with tanks for Aberdeen Waterloo on 2nd ...
Duncan Ross 02/09/2020
The newly refurbished Inverurie foot crossing in August 2019.
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Duncan Ross 11/08/2019
Inverurie foot crossing, with work still in progress, on 11th August 2019.
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Duncan Ross 11/08/2019
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This is a two platform station with a large granite built single storey station building on the westbound platform. The station has a large car park. The station building has something of the appearance of distilleries to its design, with a ventilator (or is it a cupola?)! Internally the building has fine dark stained wood panelling. One room was the private waiting room of the Earl of Kintore ...

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An escorted visit to Inverurie signal box in 1990 resulted in this night-time view. The large gap in front of the box between it and the running lines ...
Ewan Crawford //1990
Detail of the cupola styled ventilator over the west end of Inverure's station building. ...
Ewan Crawford 06/10/2018
Inverurie signal box seen in 1990. ...
Ewan Crawford //1990
Old bridge over the line out to Oldmeldrum looking back through to Inverurie, slowly being encroached by the Osprey housing estate. Photo taken from ...
Duncan Ross 14/07/2023
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This was a single platform station, with the platform crossing the Lochter Burn. The platform was on the west side of the line, just to the south of a level crossing.
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The bridge number (347) is still visible on the abutment below the platform at Lethenty see image 33479. Also visible on the steel beam is the ...
John Williamson 03/04/2011
Closed to passengers on 2 November 1931 and completely by 3 January 1966, Lethenty on the Oldmeldrum branch was still recognisable as a railway halt ...
John Williamson /11/1977
The halt at Lethenty is remarkably well preserved almost 80 years after passenger services were withdrawn and 45 years after complete closure. This is ...
John Williamson 03/04/2011
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This was a short timber platform on the north side of the line, just west of where the line crossed the Lochter Burn. The original name may have been Muirtown, the name of the farm to the south.
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The former Fingask Platform on the Oldmeldrum branch, opened by the Inverurie and Old Meldrum Railway in 1867. The photograph, taken in the 1920s, was ...
Ray Thackrah Collection //
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This was a single platform station with a loop. There was a GNSR style timber station building.
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The station building at Oldmeldrum in November 2006, soon to be moved to Milton of Crathes on the Deeside line. ...
John Furnevel 06/11/2006
Evening sun on Oldmeldrum station in November 2006. ...
John Furnevel 06/11/2006
Station buildings at Oldmeldrum, still intact in 2007. Site now used as a bus garage. Looking west. ...
Graham Morgan 01/04/2007
Gone! Oldmeldrum station building has been taken for use on the Deeside Railway. May 2012. ...
Ewan Crawford 23/05/2012
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