Keith and Dufftown Railway
| Keith and Dufftown Railway | |
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| The Whisky Line | |
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| Class 108 diesel multiple unit "Spirit of Speyside". | |
| Locale | Keith, Moray |
| Terminus | Dufftown railway station |
| Commercial operations | |
| Built by | Keith and Dufftown Railway (GNoSR) |
| Original gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) |
| Preserved operations | |
| Owned by | The Keith & Dufftown Railway Association |
| Stations | 3 |
| Length | 11 miles (18 km) |
| Preserved gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) |
| Preservation history | |
| 1998 | Transferred from Railtrack to Keith & Dufftown Railway Association |
| June 2000 | Reopened to traffic |
The Keith and Dufftown Railway ("The Whisky Line") is a heritage railway in Scotland, running for 11 miles (18 km) from Keith Town, Keith (Ordnance Survey grid reference NJ429508) to Dufftown (NJ322414) via Drummuir (NJ378442) and Auchindachy.
Originally the former Great North of Scotland Railway Keith and Dufftown Railway which was part of the link Aberdeen with Elgin (with the Strathspey Railway and Morayshire Railway), the line was latterly a freight-only branch for British Rail, truncated at Dufftown and serving the distillery there. Regular passenger services had been withdrawn in May 1968, but in later years it hosted a series of Northern Belle summer Sunday lunch specials from Aberdeen. These ceased in 1991 and after several years disuse, the line passed into the hands of the current operator in 1998; regular heritage trains then began running in 2000.
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