Kittybrewster railway station

Kittybrewster
Kittybrewster station
Location
Place	Kittybrewster
Area	City of Aberdeen
Coordinates	57°09′37″N 2°06′49″W / 57.1603°N 2.1136°W / 57.1603; -2.1136Coordinates: 57°09′37″N 2°06′49″W / 57.1603°N 2.1136°W / 57.1603; -2.1136
Operations
Original company	Great North of Scotland Railway
Pre-grouping	Great North of Scotland Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
History
20 September 1854	Opened
1 April 1856	Moved when line extended to Aberdeen Waterloo
4 November 1867	Moved when Denburn Valley Line to Aberdeen Joint opened
6 May 1968	Closed
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There have been three Kittybrewster railway stations at Kittybrewster, Aberdeen. The first opened in 1854 as a terminus of the Great North of Scotland Railway's (GNoSR) first line to Huntly. This was replaced two years later by a station on a new line to a city terminus at Waterloo. It was replaced again when the Denburn Valley Line to Aberdeen Joint opened in 1867.

The Great North of Scotland Railway amalgamated with other railways to form the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923 and became part of British Railways when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The station was recommended for closure by Dr Beeching's report "The Reshaping of British Railways" and closed on 6 May 1968. The line remains open as the Aberdeen to Inverness Line.

Aberdeen Kittybrewster opened to the public on 12 September 1854 as the terminus of Great North of Scotland Railway's first line to Huntly. The station had a single platform, with a loop clear of the platform to allow the locomotive to run round the carriages and push them into the station.

On 23 September, the third day after opening to passengers, a collision between two trains at Kittybrewster resulted in the death of a passenger and several serious injuries. The inquiry found that the driver, attempting to make up time after a late start, had over-run previous stations and been approaching the terminus with excessive speed. The driver attempted to select reverse gear to slow the train but had failed to hold on to the lever, which slipped into forward, propelling the train into carriages waiting on the platform. The station staff should not have allowed the carriages to be waiting at the station. The layout at Kittybrewster was altered after the accident.

The GNoSR sought and obtained powers for a 1 ³⁄₄ miles (2.8 km) branch that followed the Aberdeenshire Canal from Kittybrewster to a terminus at Waterloo in the docks. Kittybrewster station was rebuilt with through platforms, and the line was opened to goods traffic on 24 September 1855 and passengers 1 April 1856 and .