Alford Valley Railway
| Alford Valley Railway | |
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| Alford Railway Station | |
| Locale | Howe of Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Terminus | Alford Railway Station |
| Commercial operations | |
| Built by | Duncan MacKenzie Haggis Railway Services |
| Original gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
| Preserved operations | |
| Preserved gauge | 2 ft (610 mm) |
| Commercial history | |
| 1859 | opened |
| Closed to passengers | 1950 |
| Closed | 1966 |
| Preservation history | |
| 1980 | Haughton Park to Murray Park opened |
| 1984 | Alford to Haughton Park opened |
Coordinates: 57°13′55″N 2°41′56″W / 57.232°N 2.699°W
The Alford Valley Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway in the Howe of Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is located at what used to be the terminus of the passenger and goods Alford Valley Railway which connected with the Great North of Scotland Railway main line at Kintore.
The construction of the Alford Valley Railway started in 1856 and the line opened in 1859 as a Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) branch line from Kintore railway station, northwest of Aberdeen, with stations at Kemnay, Monymusk, Tillyfourie, Whitehouse and Alford. The line also served Kemnay Quarry and three other granite quarries in the area. The summit of the line is just west of Tillyfourie at 618 feet (188 m) where a mile-long cutting 30 feet (9.1 m) deep required cutting through particularly hard granite. The train took just over an hour for the 16 mile journey and until 1883 by law the third class fare on one train a day could not be more than a penny per mile.
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