Drummuir railway station is a preserved station that serves the village of
Drummuir
Drummuir ( gd, Druim Iubhair) is a small village in Scotland, in the traditional county of Banffshire, and in the Moray council area. It is between Dufftown (five miles), Keith (seven/eight miles) and Huntly (nine miles).
Its old name was Bot ...
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Moray, Scotland on the
Keith and Dufftown Railway. The station also served the nearby Drummuir Castle estate and Botriphnie Church and the old churchyard are in the vicinity, together with St Fomac's Well.
History
The station was first opened in 1862 by the
Keith and Dufftown Railway. The station was closed to passengers by British Railways in May 1968, but the line remained open for freight and special excursions for some time.
It was reopened as a preserved station in 2003 by the Keith and Dufftown Railway Association.
Infrastructure
In 1869 the
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shows that only a single platform was present with no passing loop, however a goods shed, loading dock and sidings were already in situ, approached by trains from the north-east.
[XIX.15 (Botriphnie and Mortlach) Survey date: 1868. Publication date: 1869.](_blank)
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By 1902 the station had two platforms, two signal boxes, a pedestrian footbridge, the goods yard to the east and a station building with ticket office and waiting room on the southbound platform. Ancillary buildings stood on the east side of the loading dock and sidings. The up platform had a small wooden shelter.
In 1967 the passing loop was lifted and the signal boxes were closed. The wooden station building was a Great North of Scotland Railway
The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) was one of the two smallest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping, operating in the north-east of the country. Formed in 1845, it carried its first passengers the fro ...
design however the old wooden footbridge had been replaced by a LNER LNER may refer to:
* London and North Eastern Railway, a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1923 until 1947
* London North Eastern Railway, a train operating company in the United Kingdom since 2018
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metal design fabricated from old rails and signal wire.
Closure and reopening
The station had closed to regular passenger services in May 1968 and closed to goods on 15/11/71. 'Northern Belle' excursion trains from Aberdeen however used the line for several years in the summer from 1984 and BR ran special trains from London until early 1991 when deteriorating infrastructure brought them to an end. The Keith - Dufftown section was however 'mothballed' by BR and was then purchased by the Keith & Dufftown Railway and it is now publicised as 'The Whisky Line'.
Services
The station has a car park and nature trail with a bird hide has been created in the old sidings and loading dock area. It is a regular timetabled stop for trains during the operating season with three trains a day in each direction (datum 2019).
Notes
References
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External links
Video and narration - Drummuir railway station
{{Commons category, Drummuir railway station
Disused railway stations in Moray
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1862
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1968
Beeching closures in Scotland
Former Great North of Scotland Railway stations
1862 establishments in Scotland