Aberdeen Kittybrewster railway station

Aberdeen Kittybrewster
Location
Place Aberdeen
Area Aberdeen
Operations
Original company Great North of Scotland Railway
Pre-grouping GNoSR
Post-grouping LNER
History
20 September 1854 Station opened[1]
1 April 1856 Station closed and replaced by Aberdeen Waterloo and Kittybrewster[1][2]
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Legend
Great North of Scotland Railway
Don Street (GNoSR)
Kittybrewster Junction
Kittybrewster (new) (DVL) 
Kittybrewster (old) (GNoSR)
Hutcheon Street (DVL) 
Waterloo (GNoSR)
Victoria Basin: North (HTT)
Victoria Basin: South (HTT)
Deeside Goods (HTT)
Schoolhill (DVL) 
Guild Street (AR)
Aberdeen Joint (DVL)
Deeside Goods Branch Junction
Goods Branch Junction
Ferryhill (AR)
Holburn Street (DR
Ferryhill Junction
Aberdeen Railway
Railways:

Aberdeen Kittybrewster station opened on 20 September 1854[1] to serve the Great North of Scotland Railway main line to Keith. It closed to passengers in 1856[1] once Aberdeen Waterloo opened and Kittybrewster (on the link to the Aberdeen Railway. The track remains in use as a freight siding for the docks.[3]

The station was 19 chains (380 m) south of the junction between the main line and the branch line to the docks,[4] near where the A96 Powis Terrace now crosses the line.

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Butt (1995), page 12
  2. ^ Butt (1995), page 136
  3. ^ "Sites and Monuments Record: Railway Station, Waterloo". Aberdeen City Council Website. Archived from the original on 7 February 2011. http://liveweb.waybackmachine.org/http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/xsm_smrdetail.asp?id=1922. 
  4. ^ "Map of Aberdeen railways". 1913. http://mcjazz.f2s.com/images/Stations/Railway.jpg. Retrieved 1 April 2011. 

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