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Turriff. The Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension Railway was authorised by Act of 27 July 1857. Share capital was to be £80,000, and the GNoSR could invest £5,000. The Macduff terminus was to be about half a mile short of the east end of Banff Bridge over the River Deveron; the intention was that it would serve both Banff and Macduff, and the station took that name. In being located there it would be a mile from the centre of both places. This time the ruling gradient was to be 1 in 66, thereby avoiding expensive earthworks.
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Turriff, a distance of 18 miles, forming a junction with the GNoSR at Inveramsay. It was submitted to the 1855 session of Parliament; the GNoSR agreed to take £40,000 of shares in the
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Macduff itself. The GNoSR took its time about making the extension, but Colonel Rich of the Board of Trade made an inspection on 28 June 1872, and the
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Macduff extension. Banff's town clerk had written to suggest that the harbour station, on the Portsoy line, be renamed Banff North and the new station on the extension be Banff South: the Great North declined to change the harbour station's name, and called the new station
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A fatal accident took place on the line on 27 November 1882, as the 4:20 p.m. mixed train from
Macduff to Inveramsay was crossing the Inverythan Road Bridge, between Auchterless and Fyvie. The train was formed with five goods wagons and a brake van in front of four passenger coaches. The engine and
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had diverted much of the traffic away from their own line, the planned extension from
Turriff to Macduff "will not only bring back the greater portion of the traffic thus diverted, but will probably add to its amount. And the working of that line and yours continuously under one system will prove
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Macduff. New intermediate stations were Plaidy, and King
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station in 1872, with an intermediate station at the river bridge. The companies and the branch line were never commercially successful. In 1951 the line was closed to passengers; part of the line as far as
Turriff remained active for goods traffic until 1966. The line is now completely inactive.
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Usage of the line was disappointing and financial performance was accordingly very difficult. Gross income only just exceeded operating expenses and loan interest, and the take-up of shares fell short. An issue of preference shares was proposed to liquidate the debt. On 19 April 1859 the Company
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The company's finances were as desperate as before, and payments on mortgage debt became impossible. From 30 June 1862 the GNoSR became guarantor. Once again the GNoSR found itself working a nominally independent, and loss-making, company, and it was agreed in June 1866 to take it into GNoSR
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Once again share subscription was extremely slow to come in, and construction was correspondingly delayed. In the spring 1859 the line had been built as far as Keilhill (King Edward) and in 1860 it was extended to Gellymill. The terminus there was now to be named "Banff and Macduff".
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588:, but it was seen that at this early date, financing such a line would not be possible. In October 1853 the GNoSR decided to encourage local interested parties to promote a branch line to Banff, and there was a further meeting on 23 October 1854.
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By 1951 the line had become totally uneconomic, and British Railways, who now owned the line, closed it to passengers on 1 October 1951. Goods traffic continued until 1 August 1961 beyond Turriff, and total closure took place on 3 January 1966.
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711:, found that the immediate cause was distortion of the track, and that the distortion was probably caused by expansion of the rails in the summer heat. There was no evidence that fishplates had been greased to allow for this.
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than the purchase cost of land for the line, £18,000. So few of its ordinary shares had been taken up that the Banff Macduff & Turriff Junction company had to apply to Parliament for authority to issue 5% preference stock.
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the first two wagons crossed the bridge, but one of the wagons had derailed, and the remaining four goods vehicles and the first two passenger coaches fell 30 feet to the roadway, and were completely destroyed.
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extension opened on 1 July 1872. The cost of the extension as declared in the authorising Act had been £5,356. The former terminus was now closed; there was a new intermediate station at Banff Bridge.
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new company, and to work it for 50% of gross receipts. The Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction Railway was authorised by Parliament on 15 June 1855, with capital of £120,000.
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mutually advantageous to both companies". Ross comments that "This was wishful thinking of a high order."
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548:Macduff Railway station photographed prior to WW2.
2125:Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company
2058:Independent lines worked by the Highland Railway
1423:List of Great North of Scotland Railway stations
682:Absorption into the GNoSR, and a short extension
810:Plaidy; opened 4 June 1860; closed 22 May 1944;
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2180:Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway
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1706:Lines built by the Caledonian Railway
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667:Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway
532:System map of the railways to Macduff
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2321:North British, Arbroath and Montrose
1848:Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr
1595:General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour
1304:Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension
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2453:Cromarty and Dingwall Light Railway
2085:Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick
1916:Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction
1645:Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie
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972:The Great North of Scotland Railway
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1946:Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction
1570:Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie
1487:Glasgow and South Western Railway
1326:Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction
1286:Aberdeen and Turriff (originally
1186:Bradshaws July 1938 Railway Guide
946:, Cassell, London, 1959, page 270
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2519:Closed railway lines in Scotland
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1690:Symington, Biggar and Broughton
1492:Great North of Scotland Railway
1271:Great North of Scotland Railway
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2275:Leven and East of Fife Railway
2260:Kirkcaldy and District Railway
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2067:Wick and Lybster Light Railway
1843:Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle
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2356:Wemyss and Buckhaven Railway
2240:Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank
2027:Inverness and Perth Junction
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1987:Buckie and Portessie Branch
1823:Castle Douglas and Dumfries
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2407:Glasgow and Paisley Joint
2225:Glasgow City and District
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1715:CR Cleland and Midcalder
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513:A separate company, the
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2331:The St. Andrews Railway
2110:Border Counties Railway
2100:Bathgate and Coatbridge
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1615:Greenock and Wemyss Bay
1605:Glasgow Central Railway
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1024:Barclay-Harvey, page 42
1012:McLeish, page 26 and 27
2185:Edinburgh and Northern
2160:Edinburgh and Dalkeith
2155:Edinburgh and Bathgate
1966:St Combs Light Railway
1808:Bridge of Weir Railway
1735:CR Hamiltonhill Branch
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2165:Edinburgh and Glasgow
2062:Dornoch Light Railway
1941:Formartine and Buchan
1853:Greenock and Ayrshire
1783:Ayr and Dalmellington
1502:North British Railway
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2150:East of Fife Railway
2140:Devon Valley Railway
2115:Border Union Railway
1901:Aberdeen and Turriff
1858:Kilmarnock and Troon
1600:Garnkirk and Glasgow
1294:Aboyne & Braemar
26:and Turriff Junction
2493:Skye Marble Railway
2458:Dundee and Arbroath
2397:Dundee and Arbroath
2295:Montrose and Bervie
2215:Gifford and Garvald
2022:Inverness and Nairn
1878:Paisley and Renfrew
1700:Wishaw and Coltness
1550:Clydesdale Junction
1535:Arbroath and Forfar
2052:Sutherland Railway
1997:Duke of Sutherland
1971:Strathspey Railway
1951:Keith and Dufftown
1906:Aboyne and Braemar
1883:Paisley Canal Line
1873:Maybole and Girvan
1868:Maidens and Dunure
1764:Glasgow and South
1750:Callander and Oban
1730:CR Hamilton Branch
1640:Lesmahagow Railway
1590:Forfar and Brechin
1482:Caledonian Railway
1374:Keith and Dufftown
1331:Keith and Dufftown
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1992:Dingwall and Skye
1773:Ardrossan Railway
1740:CR The Switchback
1725:CR Douglas Branch
1560:Crieff and Comrie
1545:Cathcart District
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172:Banff Bridge
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2436:Other lines
2380:Joint lines
1956:Moray Coast
1400:Deeside Way
1393:Rail trails
1278:Constituent
724:Locomotives
648:On 27 June
289:Auchterless
223:King Edward
73:Track gauge
2564:Banffshire
2513:Categories
2392:City Union
2195:Esk Valley
2095:Ballochney
1961:Morayshire
1511:Caledonian
1384:Strathspey
1341:Strathspey
1336:Morayshire
869:References
742:Manchester
574:Oldmeldrum
491:companies.
423:Inveramsay
2346:Slamannan
849:John Gibb
787:Locations
734:D.K.Clark
695:Accidents
400:Inverness
108:Route map
67:Technical
1280:railways
657:Edward.
502:town of
454:Aberdeen
92: in
40:Scotland
31:Overview
2569:Turriff
2078:Railway
1931:Deeside
1513:Railway
1316:Deeside
775:Closure
582:Macduff
578:Turriff
522:Macduff
504:Turriff
267:Turriff
150:Macduff
87:⁄
46:History
746:4-4-0s
730:2-4-0s
675:Grange
362:Wartle
245:Plaidy
123:Legend
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59:Closed
51:Opened
36:Locale
1530:Alyth
827:Notes
586:Banff
311:Fyvie
584:and
576:and
494:The
62:1966
54:1857
740:of
580:to
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