Tillyfourie railway station

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

Tillyfourie
The station shown on a 1900 OS map
General information
Location	Aberdeenshire Scotland
Coordinates	57.2004°N 2.5879°W / 57.2004; -2.5879
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Alford Valley Railway
Pre-grouping	Great North of Scotland Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
2 June 1860 (1860-06-02)	Opened
2 January 1950	Closed
3 January 1966	Line closed

v t e 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

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even the daily freight train did not call.^[6][7] The line closed completely on 3 January 1966 when all services were withdrawn between Paradise Siding and Alford.^[8]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

1. Vallance 1965, p. 61.
2. Grant 2017, p. 10.
3. "Ordnance Survey 25 inch map Aberdeenshire LXIII.15 (Monymusk)". National Library of Scotland. 1866. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
4. "Ordnance Survey 25 inch map Aberdeenshire LXIII.15 (Cluny; Monymusk; Tough)". National Library of Scotland. 1900. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
5. The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 534.
6. Quick 2022, p. 447.
7. J. Spencer Gilks (January 1960). "With the Freight to Alford". The Railway Magazine. 106 (705): 29.
8. 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.

External links

• "Tillyfourie". Railscot. Retrieved 5 June 2021.