Aberdeen Kittybrewster railway station

Aberdeen Kittybrewster
Location
Place	Aberdeen
Area	Aberdeen
Coordinates	57°09′37″N 2°06′49″W / 57.1603°N 2.1136°WCoordinates: 57°09′37″N 2°06′49″W / 57.1603°N 2.1136°W
Operations
Original company	Great North of Scotland Railway
Pre-grouping	GNoSR
Post-grouping	LNER
History
20 September 1854	Station opened[1]
1 April 1856	Station closed and replaced by Aberdeen Waterloo and Kittybrewster[1][2]
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Legend
Great North of Scotland Railway Don Street(GNoSR) Kittybrewster Junction (DVL)Kittybrewster (new) Kittybrewster (old)(GNoSR) (DVL)Hutcheon Street Waterloo(GNoSR) Victoria Basin: North(HTT) Victoria Basin: South(HTT) Deeside Goods(HTT) (DVL)Schoolhill Guild Street(AR) (DVL)Aberdeen Joint Deeside Goods Branch Junction Goods Branch Junction Deeside Railway Aberdeen Ferryhill(DVL) (DR)Holburn Street Ferryhill Junction Aberdeen Railway
Railways: AR - Aberdeen Railway (CR) DR - Deeside Railway (GNoSR) DVL - Denburn Valley Line (GNoSR) GNoSR - Great North of Scotland Railway HTT - Harbour Trustee Tramways (Aberdeen)

Aberdeen Kittybrewster station opened on 20 September 1854^[1] to serve the Great North of Scotland Railway main line to Keith. It closed to passengers in 1856^[1] once Aberdeen Waterloo opened and Kittybrewster (on the link to the Aberdeen Railway. The track remains in use as a freight siding for the docks.^[3]

The station was 19 chains (380 m) south of the junction between the main line and the branch line to the docks,^[4] near where the A96 Powis Terrace now crosses the line.

References

Notes

1. Butt (1995), page 12
2. Butt (1995), page 136
3. "Sites and Monuments Record: Railway Station, Waterloo". Aberdeen City Council Website. Archived from the original on 7 February 2011.
4. "Map of Aberdeen railways". 1913. Retrieved 1 April 2011.

Sources

• Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063.
• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.