Tillynaught railway station

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Tillynaught
Disused Railway Track and Road Bridge, Tillynaught - geograph.org.uk - 278593.jpg
The site of Tillynaught station
General information
Location Aberdeenshire
Scotland
Coordinates 57°38′36″N2°40′15″W / 57.643221°N 2.670789°W / 57.643221; -2.670789
Grid reference NJ 6005 6167
PlatformsThree
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway
Pre-grouping Great North of Scotland Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
30 July 1859 [1] Banff Line opened
1 April 1884 [2] Line to Tochnineal opened
1 May 1886Moray Coast Line opened [3]
6 July 1964Banff branch closed to passengers [1]
6 May 1968Banff and Moray Coast Lines closed to all traffic [1] [4]

Tillynaught railway station or Tillynaught Junction [5] was a junction railway station in what is now Aberdeenshire, Parish of Fordyce, 6 miles south-west of Banff. Tillynaught was opened in 1859 by the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway, [4] and in 1867 was absorbed by the Great North of Scotland Railway(GNSR). This junction station was served by Aberdeen to Elgin trains as well as trains running to the branch terminus at Banff.

Contents

In 1923 the Great North of Scotland Railway was absorbed by the London and North Eastern Railway and in 1948 became part of British Railways. Recommended for closure by Dr Beeching's report "The Reshaping of British Railways" the station closed completely on 6 May 1968.

History

Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla

The old line to Portsoy near Tillynaight station. Dismantled Railway, north of Tillynaught - geograph.org.uk - 278610.jpg
The old line to Portsoy near Tillynaight station.

The Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway opened on 30 July 1859, with a 16+14 miles (26.2 km) line from Banff to Grange, on the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) main line, with a 3+14 miles (5.2 km) branch from Tillynaught to Portsoy. [6] On 1 February 1863 the GNSR took over services and the railway renamed the Banffshire Railway.

Moray Coast Line

A new station was built at Portsoy for the through line, which opened, together with a 4+12 miles (7.2 km) extension to Tochieneal, on 1 April 1884. The Countess of Seafield had not allowed a direct route to be built through Cullen House policies and to avoid the estate lands several bridges were and an impressive viaduct at Cullen had to be built. The Moray Coast Line opened on 1 May 1886, through Aberdeen to Elgin services called at Tillynaught. [3]

In 1923 the Great North of Scotland Railway was absorbed by the London and North Eastern Railway and railway nationalisation followed in 1948, services then being delivered by British Railways. The station and the line via Buckie was recommended for closure by Dr Beeching's in The Reshaping of British Railways, [7] closed on 6 May 1968. [4]

Banff, Portsoy and
Strathisla Railway
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Banff
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Golf Club House
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Bridgefoot Halt
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Ladysbridge
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Ordens
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Portsoy Harbour
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Portsoy
(first) (
goods only
after 1884
)
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Portsoy
(second)
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Tillynaught
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Cornhill
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Glenbarry
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Knock
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Millegin
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Grange
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curve to Aberdeen
opened 1886
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Cairnie Junction
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Rothiemay
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Huntly
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The station infrastructure

In 1866-7 the station apparently had no sidings, possessing an island platform and only two buildings indicated. [8] By 1902 the junction had two signal boxes, a pedestrian footbridge, a weighing machine and a complex arrangement of sidings and points. [9] The Tillnaught Junction signalling diagram for 1934 shows a single wooden signal box, two sidings on the Banff side and [10] the sign stated Change for Ladysbridge and Banff. [11] The island platform once had an impressive overall canopy that had been removed by 1960. [12]

After closure the station buildings were demolished and the platforms infilled. The nearby station master's house and ancillary houses have been converted into a private dwelling.

Services

Tillynaught had six trains a day to Portsoy after being taken over by the GNSR, three of these reversed and continued to Banff. [13] Tochieneal had services from when the line reached there in 1886. The Moray Coast Line was served by four through trains a day between Aberdeen to Elgin and these trains called at Tillynaught. [14]

Portsoy was served by four Aberdeen to Inverness trains in the summer of 1948, with a mid-day Keith Town to Inverness service and an evening service from Aberdeen that terminated at Elgin. There were three through services from Inverness to Aberdeen, a service from Lossiemouth and Elgin to Aberdeen and a Saturday service from Inverness to Keith that after 19 June was accelerated and extended to Aberdeen. There were no Sunday services. [15]

Micro-history

The station was located in a very rural area and was named after a local farm and water mill. [16]

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Cornhill   Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla
Great North of Scotland
Portsoy branch
1859–1884
  Portsoy
Cornhill
Towards Grange
  Great North of Scotland
Banff branch
1884–1886
  Ordens
Towards Banff
Cornhill
Towards Keith and Aberdeen
  Great North of Scotland
London and North Eastern
British Railways
Moray Coast Line
1886–1968
  Portsoy
Towards Elgin and Inverness

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References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 Butt 1995, p. 26.
  2. Butt 1995, p. 231.
  3. 1 2 Vallance 1991, pp. 94–95.
  4. 1 2 3 Butt 1995, p. 230.
  5. Scotland's Places
  6. Vallance 1991, pp. 49–50.
  7. Beeching 1963a , p. 125
    Beeching 1963b , map 9
  8. Banffshire, Sheet X (includes: Alvah; Banff; Boyndie) Survey date: 1866-7. Publication date: 1871.
  9. Banffshire 010.01 (includes: Boyndie; Fordyce) Publication date: 1904. Revised: ca. 1902.
  10. Maxtone 2005, p. 48.
  11. Maxtone 2005, p. 50.
  12. Maxtone 2005, p. 51.
  13. Vallance 1991, p. 51.
  14. Vallance 1991, p. 95.
  15. "Passenger Timetable: Scottish Region". British Railways. May 1948. Table 150. Archived from the original on 26 February 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  16. Banffshire, Sheet IX (includes: Deskford; Fordyce; Grange; Ordiquhill) Survey date: 1866. Publication date: 1871.

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