The Old Deeside Railway part 2

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This railway gradually edged its way from Aberdeen up Deeside towards Balmoral, after Queen Victoria took ownership of the castle there in the mid 19th Century. It eventually stopped at Ballater. Since being classified as uneconomic by Beeching in 1964, and thereafter dismantled, bits and pieces were sold off to adjacent landowners. On safety grounds many bridges and viaducts were destroyed. These events have effectively scuppered initiatives to make the route into a long distance path, but sections closer to Aberdeen have become designated the Deeside Way, whilst other short sections are paths or cycle tracks or bridleways. This article, illustrated by photos from the GEOGRAPH archive, is meant to be a useful substitute for a de facto full length Deeside Way. It may also be a means of highlighting lacunae in present day photographic coverage, and encourage those gaps to be filled.

Banchory to Aboyne - opened 1859

"The first turf of the extension from Banchory to Aboyne was cut by the Marchioness of Huntly at Rosehill (Aboyne) on 2nd October 1857, and this portion of the line was opened on 2nd December 1859." A.I.McConnochie - Deeside(1895)

NO6995 Banchory:


NO6896 Glen of Dee


NO6897 Newton of Leys

NO6798 Brathens Research Centre:


NO6698 Brathens:


NO6598 Glassel Estate

NO6599 Glassel:


NO6499 Glassel:


NJ6400 Campfield

NJ6301 Kirkbrae:


NJ6202 Torphins


NJ6201 Torphins:


NJ6102 Wester Beltie:


NJ6003: Balnacraig:


NJ5903 Denhead:


NJ5904 Hilton:


NJ5804 Lumphanan:


NJ5803 Old Manse, Lumphanan:


NJ5703 Peel of Lumphanan



NJ5702 Milton:


NJ5602 Auchlossan


NJ5601 Drumduan:


NJ5600 Hillhead of Dess:



NJ5500 Boddomend

NJ5400 Kirkton:


NO5499 Rosehill:


NO5399 Aboyne:


NO5398 Aboyne:

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