Aberdeen
Location type
Major station
Names and dates
Aberdeen Joint (1867-1952)
Aberdeen (1952-)
Opened on the Denburn Valley Line (Great North of Scotland Railway).
Opened on the Aberdeen Joint (Scottish North Eastern Railway).
Open on the Aberdeen to Inverness.
Open on the Dundee to Aberdeen.
Description
This is a station with five public platforms. It opened as Aberdeen Joint - jointly owned by the Scottish North Eastern Railway to the south and the Great North of Scotland Railway to the north. It replaced terminal stations at Aberdeen Guild Street and Aberdeen Waterloo respectively. A poor horse-drawn street tramway link had existed between these, no substitute for a connecting line and joint station.
The station had a substantial reconstruction largely completed by 1914 and fully after the Great War.
3 to 5 are bay platforms and 6 and 7 are through platforms, both divided into north and south portions. 1 and 2 exist, but are not used for passengers.
Platforms 8 and 9 were also through platforms, but are no longer in use. The northern bay platforms, 10 to 13 have been demolished and the site redeveloped. '14' was not in passenger use. There was a horse dock and carriage sidings to the east.
The original joint station had a single through platform and two bays at either end, a layout similar to Perth General.
The Union Square shopping centre development directly adjoins the station on its east side. The former east side of the station is now in the atrium.
Local
The Station Hotel was sold by British Transport Hotels in 1983.
Station Hotel Aberdeen
The former entrance on the north side of Guild Street is now Tiffany Hair and Beauty .
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
Nearby stations Aberdeen Aberdeen Guild Street Schoolhill Aberdeen Waterloo Aberdeen Ferryhill Hutcheon Street Holburn Street Aberdeen Kittybrewster Kittybrewster [1st] Kittybrewster [2nd] Ruthrieston Don Street Woodside [GNSR] Bridge of Don Pitfodels Halt | Other railway and industry locations Clayhills Yard Denburn South Junction Schoolhill Tunnel Ferryhill Foundry Ferryhill Junction Hutcheon Street Tunnel Aberdeen Gas Works Ferryhill MPD Ferryhill Shed [1st] Dee Viaduct Craiginches Saw Mill Craiginches Iron Works Tourist/other Devanha Distillery Aberdeen Harbour Pittodrie Stadium |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Dates
| / /1962 | Denburn Valley Line Aberdeen Railway Arbroath and Forfar Railway Scottish Midland Junction Railway Scottish Central Railway Caledonian Railway Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway Buchanan Street Extension (Glasgow, Garnkirk and Coatbridge Railway) A4 Pacifics introduced on the Aberdeen Joint to Glasgow Buchanan Street 3 hour Grampian run. |
| 03/09/1966 | Denburn Valley Line Aberdeen Railway Arbroath and Forfar Railway Scottish Midland Junction Railway Scottish Central Railway Caledonian Railway Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway Buchanan Street Extension (Glasgow, Garnkirk and Coatbridge Railway) A4 Pacifics from Aberdeen Joint to Glasgow Buchanan Street withdrawn. |
