Tillyfourie railway station

Former railway station in Scotland

57°12′01″N 2°35′16″W / 57.2004°N 2.5879°W / 57.2004; -2.5879Platforms2Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyAlford Valley RailwayPre-groupingGreat North of Scotland RailwayPost-groupingLNERKey dates2 June 1860 (1860-06-02)Opened2 January 1950Closed3 January 1966Line closed

Alford Valley
Railway

Legend

Alford

Haughton Park

Whitehouse

summit

Tillyfourie

Monymusk

Kemnay

Paradise siding

Ratchill siding

Aberdeen–Inverness line

to Inverness

Kintore

Aberdeen–Inverness line

to Aberdeen

Tillyfourie railway station was a railway station serving Tillyfourie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

The station opened on 2 June 1860 on the Alford Valley Railway a year after the 16.5 miles (26.6 km) line between Kintore and Alford.^[1]^[2]

Originally the station had one platform on the south side of the single track railway, and one siding to the west of the station.^[3] By 1900 the line through the station had become a passing loop and there were two platforms connected with a footbridge, a signal box was located to the east. There were three sidings that were able to accommodate most types of goods including live stock.^[4]^[5]

The station closed on 2 January 1950, the sidings were removed by 1960 when even the daily freight train did not call.^[6]^[7] The line closed completely on 3 January 1966 when all services were withdrawn between Paradise Siding and Alford.^[8]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Whitehouse Line and station closed		Great North of Scotland Railway Alford Valley Railway		Monymusk Line and station closed

References

Citations

^ Vallance 1965, p. 61.
^ Grant 2017, p. 10.
^ "Ordnance Survey 25 inch map Aberdeenshire LXIII.15 (Monymusk)". National Library of Scotland. 1866. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
^ "Ordnance Survey 25 inch map Aberdeenshire LXIII.15 (Cluny; Monymusk; Tough)". National Library of Scotland. 1900. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
^ The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 534.
^ Quick 2022, p. 447.
^ J. Spencer Gilks (January 1960). "With the Freight to Alford". The Railway Magazine. 106 (705): 29.
^ Hurst 1992, p. 41 (ref 1888).

Bibliography

Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.
Vallance, Hugh Aymer (1965). The Great North of Scotland Railway. Dawlish: David & Charles. OCLC 854597610.