• Source: Alford railway station

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.




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. The northern part of the site, which was the former goods yard, was later redeveloped as the home of the Grampian Transport Museum.




Services






References






= Notes

=




= 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.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Alford railway station
• Alford Valley Railway
• Alford, Aberdeenshire
• Alford, Lincolnshire
• Alford Town railway station
• Great North of Scotland Railway
• Whitehouse railway station (Scotland)
• Tillyfourie railway station
• Alford Valley Railway (GNoSR)
• Monymusk railway station