Strichen

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Strichen (1865-1965)

Opened on the Formartine and Buchan Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station with a passing loop on a single track line. The main station building was on the east/north bound platform, on the town side of the station. There was a goods yard on the north side, approached from the west.

The building was on the original platform, the loop opening after the line.

The signal box, dating from 1891, was at the west end of the westbound platform, midway along the loop.

To the west the line crossed the North Ugie Water.

The station closed to passengers in 1965 and the box closed in 1966.

The line closed in 1979.

The platforms survive and the trackbed is now a footpath. The main station building is now a house.

Local

Formartine and Buchan Way

Tags

Station footpath

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map


Chronology Dates

24/04/1865Formartine and Buchan Railway
Maud to Fraserburgh opened. Stations opened at Brucklay [2nd], Strichen, Mormond, Rathen and Fraserburgh.
02/10/1965Formartine and Buchan Railway
Fraserburgh to Dyce junction closed to passengers. (Alternative date 4/10/1965). Fraserburgh, Rathen, Mormond Halt, Strichen, Brucklay [2nd], Maud, Arnage, Ellon, Logierieve, Udny and Newmachar closed.
27/06/1966Formartine and Buchan Railway
Strichen signal box closed.

Books


Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong