Building record MAB37774 - ABOYNE STATION

Former railway station, now in use as a shopping centre, opened in 1859 by the Aboyne Extension Railway and rebuilt in 1896.

Former railway station, now in use as a shopping centre, opened in 1859 by the Aboyne Extension Railway and rebuilt in 1896. The railway closed in 1966. It was a two platform station with steel-framed glazed awnings supported on cast-iron columns covered both platforms, and a covered footbridge linked the platforms. The awnings were removed in 1985. The former station building is single storey, 15-bay and rectangular-plan, and is constructed from tooled coursed granite with finely finished margins, a base course, an eaves course, rounded projecting cills to the north and predominantly timber windows with decorative geometric astragals to the upper panels. The piended grey slate roof has a pierced terracotta ridge, corniced granite wallhead and ridge stacks with circular cans, cast-iron hoppers, plastic gutters and aluminium downpipes. The centre four bays of the north entrance elevation are slightly advanced and stepped up with a later glazed timber door with vertical panels to both sides, flanked to the west by a tripartite window, to the east by two tripartite windows and surmounted by a slate canopy on decorative cast-iron brackets. Flanking the central section on both sides are irregular door and window openings and symmetrically placed gables with blind oeil-de-beouf openings in the gableheads to the east and west. Round angle turret rises from a square base to the outer east and west, with decorative eaves cornices, fishscale roofs and weathervanes and an inscribed plaque to the outer west stating that the extension to the Deeside railway from Banchory to Aboyne was completed on the 2nd of December 1859. The west elevation is asymmetrical. There is a single bay with a window in an infilled doorway to the centre surmounted by blank shield, and there is an angle turret with the north elevation. The south elevation has irregularly placed door and window segmental-arched openings and stone label stops that were originally from the now-removed cast-iron canopy survive. There was a goods shed to the south of the station buildings, now removed.

Period Notes
Listed 30/03/2000. Railway opened in 1859 and the station rebuilt in 1889. The railway was closed in 1966, and the awnings removed in 1985.

Author unknown, , PRESS & JOURNAL, 20/02/85 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1416.

Hume, JR, 1977, Industrial Archaeology of Scotland, 90 (Bibliographic reference). SAB730.

Record last edited

Feb 14 2018 3:38PM