Disused railway lines and closed stations in Aberdeenshire

192 miles of disused railway
105 closed stations
7 stations open today
19 named lost lines

Aberdeenshire has 192 miles of disused railway and 105 closed stations, against 7 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 15.0 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Formatine and Buchan Way, with 38 miles of its route inside Aberdeenshire.

See Aberdeenshire’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 192 miles of lost railway in Aberdeenshire break down as 162 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 30 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 0.6 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 Aberdeenshire

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

Line	Miles in county
Formatine and Buchan Way	38
Inveramsay to Macduff Branch	30
Deeside Line	18
Boddam Branch	15
Elgin to Cairnie Coast Line	8.4
Kintore to Alford Branch	8.3
Banff Branch	6.1
Formartine & Buchan Way	5.0
Alford Valley Railway	5.0
Deeside Way	4.6
Inverurie to Old Meldrum Branch	4.6
Great North of Scotland Railway	4.2
Dyce to Peterhead Branch	2.9
Formartine and Buchan Way	2.3
Peterhead Prison Railway	2.2
Montrose and Bervie Railway	0.8
Maud to Fraserburgh Branch	0.7
Track of Longside Airship Railway	0.7
Old Railway Line Walk	0.4

Closed railway stations in Aberdeenshire

All 105 closed and former stations in Aberdeenshire, 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 Aberdeenshire

7 stations in Aberdeenshire still have a train service. The busiest are Stonehaven (480,362 a year), Inverurie (359,792 a year), Kintore (124,436 a year), Laurencekirk (87,390 a year) and Portlethen (68,214 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

Moray, Aberdeen, Angus, Perth and Kinross and Highland.

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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