Date: 04/03/2017

A national transport charity has called on the Scottish Government to protect the former Buchan railway line and cut the bill of reinstating the route by tens of millions of pounds. Transform Scotland, the sustainable transport alliance, has responded to a government transport consultation and proposed special protection for former branch railways, which were closed after the controversial Beeching Report. The Buchan line, which connected Peterhead and Fraserburgh to Aberdeen via Ellon, has been closed for more than 50 years and there have been myriad calls for it to be reopened.

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A national transport charity has called on the Scottish Government to protect the former Buchan railway line and cut the bill of reinstating the route by tens of millions of pounds.

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Looking back along the platform at Peterhead in May 1949. The locomotive is B1 no 61345, one month old at the time.
Location: Peterhead
Company: Formartine and Buchan Railway
19/05/1949 G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow

D6141 stands ready to leave Fraserburgh with the 3.15pm train for Aberdeen on 2 September 1963.
Location: Fraserburgh
Company: Formartine and Buchan Railway
02/09/1963 K A Gray

Classic BR uniforms glimpsed at Ellon from the 12.25 Aberdeen-Fraserburgh train on Saturday 1st May 1965, with driver and secondman hanging out of the NBL Type 2 at the front (yes, a diesel locomotive). The Station Master - identified by the copious gold braid - is Alastair Farquhar, who hailed from Buckie. He had previously been based at lonely Riccarton Junction, and would face yet more change in five months' time when passenger trains were withdrawn from the Fraserburgh and Peterhead lines. [With thanks to Bruce McCartney]
Location: Ellon
Company: Formartine and Buchan Railway
01/05/1965 Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)