- Aberlour railway station
Infobox UK disused station
name = Aberlour
caption =
locale =Scotland
borough =Moray
line =Strathspey Railway (GNoSR) Great North of Scotland Railway owner =
London and North Eastern Railway
platforms = ?
latitude =
longitude =
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years = 1 July1863
events = Station opens
years1 = 18 October1965
events1 = Station closesAberlour railway station served the village of
Aberlour inScotland . Served by the Strathspey railway, it was the last station before the junction atCraigellachie , where the line met the Great North of Scotland line that ran fromKeith toElgin .History
Opened by the
Strathspey Railway (GNoSR) , it was absorbed by theNorth British Railway . Then station passed on to theLondon and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. That company then closed to passengers nine years later, although the line was still open to freight until later.The site today
The site is now home to the
Speyside Way Visitor Centre [http://www.rucsacs.com/samples/26.pdf] . The building has been enlarged and the old railway buildings are now a teashop.References
*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd
year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0
* Pictures of the station recently [http://ccgi.ewanbeth.force9.co.uk/cgi-bin/images/location.php?loc=Aberlour]*Railscot [http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Strathspey_Railway/frame.htm]
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