Knock railway station was an intermediate stop situated on the
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 fr ...
(GNoSR) line from
Grange
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and Cairnie Junction to . Knock served the rural community and later the
Knockdhu Distillery in Banffshire. The line northwards ran to
Tillynaught where it split to reach Banff by a branch line or Elgin by the Moray Coast line.
Knock was opened in 1859 by the
Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway
The Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway was a Scottish railway company that connected the Aberdeenshire ports of Banff and Portsoy with the main line of the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) main line at Grange, a place some distance e ...
, and in 1867 was absorbed by the GNoSR who took over the line and then operating it until grouping in 1923. Passing into British Railways ownership in 1948, the line was, like the rest of the ex-GNoSR lines along the Moray coast, considered for closure as part of the
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and closure notices were issued in 1963.
Station infrastructure
In 1894 the station had three sidings, a passing loop and two platforms with a signal box on the 'up' platform, singled by 1968. The OS map of 1867 shows a basic station with a shelter, a single platform and only one siding on the opposite side of the road over bridge from the 1902 station that served the distillery in addition to the needs of the rural community. In 1902 the Knockdhu Distillery is shown with sidings, goods shed, signal box and two platforms with a footbridge.
Banffshire Sheet XV.NW (includes: Grange). Publication date: 1905. Date revised: 1902.
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In 2011 the platform remained near the Knockdhu distillery together with the old Loading docks however the road over bridge had been demolished.
See also
* List of Great North of Scotland Railway stations
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External links
Banff-Knock Model railway layoutRailScot - Banff Portsoy and Strathisla RailwayThe Banff Branch
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Former Great North of Scotland Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1859
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1968
Disused railway stations in Aberdeenshire
Beeching closures in Scotland
1859 establishments in Scotland
1968 disestablishments in Scotland