Alves railway station

Alves

The station buildings in 2006
Location
Place Alves
Area Moray
Operations
Original company Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway
Pre-grouping Highland Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms 2
History
25 November 1858 Station opened
3 May 1965 Station Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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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Passenger services on the Burghead & Hopeman branch line (opened in 1862) were withdrawn considerably earlier, by the LMS back in September 1931.[1] Goods traffic continued (in the form of grain to the whisky distillery at Roseisle and the maltings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 (though still intact).[2]

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.[3]

References

  1. Railscot - Hopeman Branch (I&AJR) www.railbrit.co.uk; 2013-12-23
  2. Disused & overgrown Alves to Burghead branch Burgess, Anne Geograph.org 1-03-2011; Retrieved 2013-12-23
  3. The old station at Alves Macauley, Iain; Geograph.org 24-01-2006; Retrieved 2013-12-23

External links

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

Coordinates: 57°38′15″N 3°27′01″W / 57.63745°N 3.45026°W / 57.63745; -3.45026

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