Alford railway station

This article is about the Scottish railway station. For the similarly named station in Lincolnshire, see Alford Town railway station.

Alford
General information
Location	Alford, Aberdeenshire Scotland
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Alford Valley Railway
Pre-grouping	Great North of Scotland Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
25 March 1859	Opened
2 January 1950	Closed
May 1980	Reopened as narrow gauge terminus
Location

Alford railway station is a former railway station in Alford, Aberdeenshire which now serves as a terminus for tourist narrow gauge railway, the Alford Valley Railway. The station used to be the terminus of a line, also called the Alford Valley Railway, from Kintore where it joined the Great North of Scotland Railway main line. ^[1]

History

Opened by the Great North of Scotland Railway it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways during the nationalisation of 1948. It was then closed by British Railways.

The site today

The station is now the terminus of the Alford Valley Railway. ^[2] The northern part of the site, which was the former goods yard, was later redeveloped as the home of the Grampian Transport Museum.

Services

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Terminus		Alford Valley Railway		Haughton Park Terminus
Proposed extension
Terminus		Alford Valley Railway		Haughton Park towards Whitehouse
Disused railways
Terminus		Great North of Scotland Railway Alford Valley Railway (GNoSR)		Whitehouse Line and station closed

References

Notes

1. British Railways Atlas.1947. p. 38
2. Alford Valley Railway web site

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN   978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC   228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC   22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map
• "Alford Valley Railway" . Retrieved 7 June 2011.

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