Disused railway lines and closed stations in Aberdeen

74 miles of disused railway
25 closed stations
2 stations open today
10 named lost lines

Aberdeen has 74 miles of disused railway and 25 closed stations, against 2 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 12.5 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Deeside Line, with 5.5 miles of its route inside Aberdeen.

See Aberdeen’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 74 miles of lost railway in Aberdeen break down as 56 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 17 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable and 1.2 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Aberdeen

10 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Aberdeen; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Deeside Line	5.5
Deeside Way	4.1
Deeside Railway	1.3
Dyce to Peterhead Branch	1.3
Goods Sidings	1.1
Aberdeen and Inverness Line	1.0
Aberdeen to Inverness Line	0.9
Aberdeen Guild Street Freight Branch	0.4
Goods Station	0.4
Great Northern Road	0.4

Closed railway stations in Aberdeen

All 25 closed and former stations in Aberdeen, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Aberdeen

2 stations in Aberdeen still have a train service. The busiest are Aberdeen (2.4 million a year) and Dyce (308,806 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Aberdeenshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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