Alves railway station

Alves
Alves
	The station buildings in 2006
General information
Location	Alves, Moray ; Scotland
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Highland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
25 November 1858	Station opened
3 May 1965	Station Closed

Last updated June 04, 2022

Alves was a railway station located near Elgin, in the Scottish administrative area of Moray. The station was the junction where the line to Burghead and Hopeman diverged from the line from Aberdeen to Inverness.

History

Opened by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway, then absorbed by the Highland Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board in May 1965 as a result of the Beeching Axe.

Passenger services on the Burghead & Hopeman branch line (opened in 1862) were withdrawn considerably earlier, by the LMS back in September 1931.^{[ citation needed ]} Goods traffic continued (in the form of grain to the whisky distillery at Roseisle and the maltings at Burghead) until 1992. The section as far the former was reopened in January 1998, but traffic ceased again shortly afterwards and the branch is now disused & overgrown. This line has now been disconnected from the main Aberdeen to Inverness line as part of upgrades to the track and signalling in 2018. ^[1]

The site today

Trains still pass the site on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line. The station building has survived and is now a private residence.^[2]

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References

↑ Disused & overgrown Alves to Burghead branch Burgess, Anne Geograph.org 1-03-2011; Retrieved 2013-12-23
↑ The old station at Alves Macauley, Iain; Geograph.org 24-01-2006; Retrieved 2013-12-23

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.

External links

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Mosstowie Station closed; Line open		Highland Railway Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway		Kinloss Station closed; Line open
Mosstowie Station closed; Line open		Highland Railway Hopeman Branch		Coltfield Platform Line and station closed

Coordinates: 57°38′15″N3°27′01″W / 57.63745°N 3.45026°W / 57.63745; -3.45026

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[1] Disused & overgrown Alves to Burghead branch Burgess, Anne Geograph.org 1-03-2011; Retrieved 2013-12-23

[2] The old station at Alves Macauley, Iain; Geograph.org 24-01-2006; Retrieved 2013-12-23

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