Urquhart
Location type
Station
Name and dates
Urquhart (1884-1968)
Opened on the Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway).
Description
This was a single platform station with a goods yard on its south side, approached from the west.
The platform was on the south side of the line with a timber Great North of Scotland Railway style station building.
A signal box opened with the station andwas replaced with a ground frame in 1896.
The station and line closed in 1968.
After surviving closure relatively intact until the late 1980s, the site has been cleared for housing. The road overbridge at the east end of the station has been removed.
The next station west was Calcots and the next east Garmouth.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
Nearby stations Urquhart Lhanbryde Calcots Garmouth Balnacoul Halt Orbliston Fochabers Town Elgin East Spey Bay Elgin Longmorn Greens of Drainie Rifle Range Halt Coleburn^s Platform Lossiemouth | Other railway and industry locations Lossie Junction Fochabers Town Shed Spey Viaduct Elgin Gas Works Elgin Shed [2nd] Elgin East Junction Elgin East Coal Yard Elgin Shed [1st] Elgin Centre Signal Box Tourist/other Linkwood Distillery Linksfield Level Crossing Spynie Palace Tugnet Ice House Elgin Cathedral Longmorn Distillery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Dates
| 12/08/1885 | Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway) Lossie Junction (Morayshire Railway) to Garmouth opened. Stations opened: Calcots, Urquhart and Garmouth. |
Books
 Banff, Moray and Nairn's Lost Railways | Moray Coast Railways |  The Travellers Joy: The Story of the Morayshire Railway |
