Fyvie
Location type
StationName and dates
Fyvie (1857-1951)Opened on the Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station with a passing loop. Little, apart from platform edging, remain. The southbound platform was the original, before the loop was installed. The station building was typical of the line between Inveramsay and Turriff.
A goods yard existed on the east side, approached from the south.
A signal box opened in 1895. This was on the west side of the loop in line with the south end of the platform.
The box closed in 1936 and a ground frame installed. The station closed to passengers in 1951, with the rest of the line. The line remained open until 1966. In a curious each of history the line had been cut back to Turriff in 1961 - the line had opened there in 1857 and was extended north in 1860.
Little remains of the passenger station. A modern goods shed still exists.
Of greatest interest is the stone building at the entry to the former goods yard. A similar building, in modified form, exists in the former goods yard at Oldmeldrum.
Local
Fyvie Castle is about a third of a mile to the east of the former station.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Rothienorman Auchterless Wartle Turriff Fingask Halt Oldmeldrum Pitcaple Inveramsay Lethenty Oyne Plaidy Buchanstone Insch Inverurie Auchnagatt | Turriff Mill Lethenty Mill Inverurie Works Tourist/other Fyvie Castle Loanhead Stone Circle Haddo House Tarves Tomb Glendronach Distillery Maiden Stone Tolquhon Castle Brandsbutt Stone Pitmeddan Garden Picardy Symbol Stone Arnage Castle Hill of Dunnideer |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 05/09/1857 | Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction Railway Line opened from Inveramsay to Turriff and Inveramsay station rebuilt; stations at Wartle, Rothienorman, Fyvie, Auchterless and Turriff. |
