Aberdeen Kittybrewster railway station

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]

Aberdeen Kittybrewster
Location	Aberdeen, Aberdeen Scotland
Coordinates	57.1603°N 2.1136°W
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great North of Scotland Railway
Pre-grouping	GNoSR
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
20 September 1854	Station opened[1]
1 April 1856	Station closed and replaced by Aberdeen Waterloo and Kittybrewster[1][2]

Railway stations around Aberdeen
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)

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 1 April 2011. Retrieved 25 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. CN 8983.
• 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 978-1-85260-508-7. 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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.