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The line in 1910 had seven return workings on weekdays and an additional late night
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branch close to the point where the two lines diverged. It was accessed via a path running across the road from the clubhouse and photographs show that it was built of wood with a gravel surface. No shelter or lighting were provided and the station had no sidings or signalling. A level crossing was
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Saturdays. A journey took around twenty minutes and Kirkton Bridge was a request stop with passengers required to inform the guard if they wished to alight there. The line closed to goods on 7 November 1960, Kirkton Bridge Halt however had never handled goods.
170:. It was opened in 1904 as Kirton Bridge Halt, later renamed as Kirkton Bridge Platform, on the links to serve the Fraserburgh golf course users and tourists a year after the line's other stations had opened. The 1948 timetable gives the station name as Kirkton Bridge Halt.
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as part of the
Beeching Cuts. The St Combs line was partly unfenced and it was therefore classified as a light railway and as a result the locomotives had cow catchers. The ruins of the old Church or Kirk of Philoth are located nearby, hence the name of the station.
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The short single platformed halt stood on the west of the line just south of
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706:List of Great North of Scotland Railway stations
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416:NK06, Surveyed: 1938 - 1955, Published: 1957
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182:Fraserburgh Golf Course and the sand dunes
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764:Disused railway stations in Aberdeenshire
507:Maxtone, Graham and Cooper, Mike (2018).
449:Great North of Scotland - St Combs Branch
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160:Kirkton Bridge Platform railway station
292:Fraserburgh and St Combs Light Railway
164:Fraserburgh and St Combs Light Railway
509:Then and Now on the Great North. V.1.
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403:Then and Now on the Great North. V.1
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156:Kirkton Bridge Halt railway station
794:1965 disestablishments in Scotland
16:Former railway station in Scotland
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609:Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction
569:Aberdeen and Turriff (originally
357:British Railways Atlas.1947. p.38
405:. GNoSR Association. p. 89.
200:London and North Eastern Railway
107:London and North Eastern Railway
789:1903 establishments in Scotland
554:Great North of Scotland Railway
286:Great North of Scotland Railway
196:Great North of Scotland Railway
129:renamed Kirkton Bridge Platform
97:Great North of Scotland Railway
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769:Beeching closures in Scotland
593:Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla
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305:Line and Station closed
278:Line and Station closed
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604:Formartine and Buchan
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740:57.67813°N 1.99625°W
577:Aboyne & Braemar
301:Philorth Bridge Halt
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264:Historical railways
35:General information
27:Kirkton Bridge Halt
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657:Keith and Dufftown
614:Keith and Dufftown
268:Following station
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561:Constituent
274:Fraserburgh
221:Fraserburgh
188:Fraserburgh
44:Fraserburgh
758:Categories
728:57°40′41″N
667:Strathspey
624:Strathspey
619:Morayshire
381:11 January
313:References
134:3 May 1965
731:1°59′47″W
501:11956311M
475:Sparkford
346:Butt 1995
329:Butt 1995
126:June 1908
118:July 1904
113:Key dates
67:Platforms
563:railways
493:60251199
236:Services
230:St Combs
226:St Combs
217:St Combs
192:St Combs
60:NK041651
48:Scotland
40:Location
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88:History
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80:Status
513:ISBN
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479:ISBN
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