The Denburn Valley Line was a connecting line constructed to connect the northern end of the Aberdeen Railway and Deeside Railway to the southern end of the Great North of Scotland Railway mainline.
The Denburn Valley Line was a connecting line constructed to connect the northern end of the Aberdeen Railway and Deeside Railway to the southern end of the Great North of Scotland Railway mainline.
The line was built over a former stream – the den burn. [1] It also passed underneath the existing Union Bridge. [2] It opened on 4 November 1867. The project included the "joint station", a new through-station, and two smaller stations: Schoolhill and Hutcheon Street. [3] The adjacent Union Terrace Gardens opened in the 1870s. [1]
Hutcheon Street and Schoolhill stations closed in 1937 as the local cross-city service was discontinued.
The line is still in use today as the end of the Dundee–Aberdeen line and the start of the Aberdeen–Inverness line. The joint station is now the only railway station in central Aberdeen. The Trinity Centre was built over part of the line. [2]
Union Terrace Gardens is a public park and gardens situated on Union Terrace in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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 39 miles (63 km) from Kittybrewster, in Aberdeen, to Huntly on 20 September 1854. By 1867 it owned 226+1⁄4 route miles (364.1 km) of line and operated over a further 61 miles (98 km).
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Union Street is a major street and shopping thoroughfare in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is named after the Acts of Union 1800 with Ireland.
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The Scottish North Eastern Railway was a railway company in Scotland operating a main line from Perth to Aberdeen, with branches to Kirriemuir, Brechin and Montrose. It was created when the Aberdeen Railway amalgamated with the Scottish Midland Junction Railway on 29 July 1856. It did not remain independent for long, for it was itself absorbed by the Caledonian Railway on 10 August 1866.
Union Bridge is a bridge on Union Street, Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the largest single-span granite bridge in the world, at 130 feet. It was built by Thomas Fletcher under some influence from Thomas Telford. It is a Category B listed building with Historic Scotland.
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Schoolhill Railway Station was a railway station in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. The station was closed on 3 April 1937 with the withdrawal of the suburban rail service. The few remains of the station lie adjacent to His Majesty's Theatre's car park. The station formed part of the Denburn Valley Line jointly administered by the Great North of Scotland Railway and Caledonian Railway.
The Aberdeen City Garden Project was a £140.5m project to redevelop the Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen after Aberdeen oil tycoon Sir Ian Wood pledged to donate £50m to the redevelopment of Union Terrace Gardens. In 2012, he pledged a further £35m should the project overrun. The design 'The Granite Web' by Diller Scofido and Renfro and Keppie Design won an international design competition in 2011 and was approved in a referendum on the development of the current gardens in February/March 2012. The project was vetoed in August 2012 following a council vote.
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The Triple Kirks in Aberdeen, Scotland were built at the time of the Disruption of 1843 when the Free Church of Scotland split from the Church of Scotland. The three churches were all part of a single building with a tall spire but they housed separate congregations. The East Free Kirk was completed 1843 followed by the West Free Kirk and South Free Kirk early the following year. From about 1966 the building progressively fell into disuse and became mostly ruinous but with the spire remaining.
Well O'Spa is the name given to a 15th-century well in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. This mineral well has been known since the fifteenth century. It has been destroyed by water spates from local burns or streams and moved to a new and safer site on several occasions. It is known as Callirhoe in ancient texts. The ferrous mineral quality of the water is due to a geological feature in the NE of Scotland and Aberdeen. Across Great Britain the place name "well" occurs over two thousand times. There are over one hundred occurrences of the name "well" in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In the city of Aberdeen there are 27 wells that have provided drinking water for over five hundred years. Many of the actual wells and places with "well" in their name are associated with the Celtic period of Scottish History. The Well O'Spa is protected as a Category B listed building.
County Buildings is a municipal structure in Union Terrace, Aberdeen, Scotland. The structure, which was the headquarters of Aberdeenshire County Council and was later converted for commercial use as Denburn House, comprises three separate structures all of which are Category B listed buildings.
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